PUBLIC LAW

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: Felice GIUFFRE'

Expected Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

The course aims to provide the student with adequate knowledge and critical skills of interpretation and understanding aimed at the fundamental notions of general theory of the state and positive constitutional law, with particular attention to the contributions of constitutional jurisprudence and to institutions for guaranteeing rights and freedoms. fundamental, also taking into account the constitutional principles "common" to the States of the European Union.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

The knowledge of the institutes is aimed above all at applying the concepts learned, stimulating the students' ability to dominate problems and identify possible solutions. The training objectives will be pursued through lectures, supplemented by in-depth seminars, during which the interest of students in the discussion and argumentation on cases and issues related to the current institutional will be stimulated, with the concrete application of the theoretical and of the knowledge learned.

Autonomy of judgment

The course aims to encourage the student to acquire greater awareness of the complexity of the legal phenomenon at the top of the legal system, with attention also paid to the dynamics of relations between the various local authorities, as well as the state contribution to multilevel governance and to the refluence of the latter on the fundamental scores of Constitutional Law.

Communication skills

The course aims to stimulate and ascertain the student's acquisition of clear communication methods, with particular regard to the ability to express themselves with an appropriate technical language, as well as to argue the rationale underlying the conclusions reached.

Learning ability

The course prepares a series of tools (for example: personalized interviews with teachers and tutors) intended to develop in the student the learning skills necessary for the identification and resolution of legal problems also in an interdisciplinary key, through the development of logical skills related to legal reasoning.

Course Structure

Traditional teaching (lectures and thematic in-depth seminars)

Required Prerequisites

The possession of an adequate level of general culture is required to start a university course of study, with particular regard to Italian and European history, as well as political-institutional and geopolitical current events. Adequate ability to argue one's theses and to express them in the language proper to legal sciences is also required.

Attendance of Lessons

Three times a week, not compulsory but recommended.

Detailed Course Content

COURSE CONTENT: Elements of general theory of law and the state. - The forms of state and forms of government. - The person and social formations in the constitutional system: rights of liberty and public duties. - The system of normative sources: general notions, the Constitution and its revision, state, European and international sources of autonomy. - The judicial function. - The constitutional principles on the Public Administration. - The organization of the Republic: the electoral body; Parliament: organization and functions; The president of the Republic; the government; the auxiliary bodies; the independent authorities. - Constitutional justice - Regions and other territorial bodies

Textbook Information

F. Giuffrè, I. A. Nicotra, F. Paterniti, Diritto pubblico e costituzionale, Giappichelli, Torino 2022, Sesta Edizione

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Oral exam
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