Teaching code

4S00457

Credits

6

Coordinator

Giovanni Guiglia

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

IUS/09 - PUBLIC LAW

Courses Single

Authorized

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

General Learning outcomes Knowledge and understanding - Knowledge and understanding of the rules governing social services organizations - Knowledge and understanding of the main legal instruments made available to social workers by their institutions Ability to apply knowledge and understanding - Ability to integrate their professional work with the main aims of their institutions - Ability to know and respect the limits given by the legal apparatus to their actions - Ability to make full use of the legal instruments made available by their institutions. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Main aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge of the principles, rules, main concepts and arrangements of the public law with particular regard to our Constitution in order to make the future social workers able to understand properly the rules governing social services institutions and use the legal instruments at their disposal. Secondly the course wants to provide future social workers with the knowledge necessary to know and understand the limits given by the legal apparatus to their actions.

Prerequisites and basic notions

No previous legal knowledge is required.

Program

To facilitate the learning and implementation of the knowledge involved, the course, after an indispensable introductory theoretical part, will develop through the analysis of normative texts and jurisprudential cases. In particular, the course will consider the fundamental elements of Italian public law, highlighting the constitutional principles that inspire it and their realization. In this perspective, after an introductory part dedicated to the State and the evolution of its forms, which is also useful for understanding the current characteristics of the European Union, the following will be gradually analyzed: the Italian constitutional organization, with particular regard to the system of competences that characterizes our regional state; the system of sources of law; the system of recognition and multilevel protection of fundamental rights, especially social rights, with particular attention to the right to health and the right to social assistance. From a public law point of view, the unfailing elements for the correct and responsible performance of future professional activities will therefore be dealt with, in a social context that is inevitably projected towards an "open social citizenship".
In summary:
1. The state, its forms and public bodies.
2. The European Union: outline. 3. The Italian constitutional organization.
4. In particular: the regional organization and the local government.
5. The sources of law: general notions.
6. The protection of rights: judges and the Constitutional Court.
7. Fundamental constitutional rights.
8. In particular: the right to health.
9. In particular: the right to social assistance.
10. Multilevel protection of rights: anthology of normative texts and jurisprudential cases.
The examination will be based primarily on the reference text indicated in the Bibliography (Leganto), limited to the following chapters: I, II, III, IV, VI, VII, IX, X, XI, XII (up to page 229), XIII (up to page 319).

Bibliography

Didactic methods

To allow students to acquire the skills indicated, the topics in the program will be treated not only with lectures but also by means of numerous laboratory activities, characterized by the use of slides concerning not only the theoretical profiles of the subject but also the the most significant reference legislative texts and the essential case law associated with them.

Learning assessment procedures

The exam will take place in written form and will consist of two questions proposed by the examining Commission, evaluated out of thirty. Candidates will have a total of 50 minutes and no more than 30 lines to answer each question. There is no oral integration of the exam. There are no intermediate tests.

Evaluation criteria

The exam will be aimed at ascertaining: • knowledge of the topics on the program; • the ability to present them with an appropriate legal lexicon; • the ability to connect the acquired knowledge in a systemic form; • analytical and argumentative skills; • the ability to apply the logical-legal schemes that can be deduced from the topics dealt with and, in particular, from the jurisprudential cases dealt with in the context of laboratory activities.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final grade will take into account any oral reports made by the participants during the course.

Exam language

Italiano

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