Unit LEGAL CLINIC 2
- Course
- Law
- Study-unit Code
- A000068
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Rossella Fonti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
LEGAL CLINIC 2 - I MOD.
| Code | A000069 |
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| Location | PERUGIA |
| CFU | 3 |
| Teacher | Rossella Fonti |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Affini o integrative d.m.270/04 |
| Area | Attività formative in ambiti disciplinari affini o integrativi a quelli di base e caratterizzanti, anche con riguardo alle culture di contesto e alla formazione interdisciplinare |
| Academic discipline | IUS/20 |
| Type of study-unit | Opzionale (Optional) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | The Prison Law Clinic has as its object the prison system and the theoretical-practical study of its organization and functioning. |
| Reference texts | The exam can be taken on the basis of the didactic material used for the lessons and case studies, which will be made available to students in Unistudium. |
| Educational objectives | The aim of the Prison Law Clinic is to introduce students to the reality of the prison system, the dynamics of its management and the tools for protecting the rights of prisoners from an interdisciplinary perspective (philosophy and sociology of law, executive criminal justice, constitutional law and international protection of human rights). |
| Prerequisites | To take the exam of the Prison Law Clinic, law students must have taken the exams in criminal law and criminal procedural law. |
| Teaching methods | Lectures and workshops. |
| Other information | The activities of the Prison Law Clinic are divided into three parts: 1. Lectures, dedicated to the reality of the prison system and the tools for activating rights in it; 2. The "desk for rights in prison", through which the students, in small groups led by the teachers and tutors involved in the project, will go to the Perugia prison where they will meet the prisoners who have requested it to submit complaints and requests for information on their rights. Each group will immediately respond to the simplest requests for information. It will undertake to study the more complex cases and to report them to the interested party in subsequent meetings. 3. In the final part of the course, also for evaluation purposes, each student will have to report on a case dealt with during the desk activity. Regular attendance of the course and, in particular, of the desk activities, will allow interested parties to acquire the related internship credits. |
| Learning verification modality | Oral examination. Attending students will be assessed through a final interview which, starting from a case study, will focus on the topics covered during the lessons. |
| Extended program | Origins and evolutions of prison. The prison systrem: actors, cultures, relationships. The organization of the Perugia prison and composition of its population. Health care and mental health in prison. The provision of education in prison and its organization. Vocational training, work and social security in prison. Visits and the right to family relationships. Women and foreigners in prison. The impact of the pandemic on prison. |
LEGAL CLINIC 2 - II MOD.
| Code | A000070 |
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| Location | PERUGIA |
| CFU | 3 |
| Teacher | Rossella Fonti |
| Teachers |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Affini o integrative d.m.270/04 |
| Area | Attività formative in ambiti disciplinari affini o integrativi a quelli di base e caratterizzanti, anche con riguardo alle culture di contesto e alla formazione interdisciplinare |
| Academic discipline | IUS/16 |
| Type of study-unit | Opzionale (Optional) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | The course focuses on the penitentiary system and the theoretical-practical study of the branches of law that contribute to its functioning. |
| Reference texts | The exam can be taken on the basis of the teaching material used for the lessons and made available to students on Unistudium. |
| Educational objectives | The aim of the course is to introduce students to the reality of the penitentiary system and to the tools of action of rights in the penitentiary field in an interdisciplinary perspective (philosophy of law, sociology of law, executive criminal justice, constitutional law). |
| Prerequisites | To take the examination of Law Clinic 2, it is necessary to have taken the examination of criminal law and criminal procedural law. |
| Teaching methods | Lectures and seminars. |
| Other information | The prison legal clinic is divided into three parts: 1. Frontal teaching, dedicated to the reality of the penitentiary system and to the tools for the enforcement of rights in prison; 2. The "prison rights desk": the students, led by the teachers and tutors involved in the project, will go to the Perugia Prison where they will meet the inmates who have requested them to submit their complaints and requests for information on the possibilities of protection of rights. The group will immediately respond to the simplest requests for information. It undertakes to study the most complex cases and to report to the person in subsequent meetings; 3. In the final part of the course, each student will have to report on the case faced during the "prison rights desk" activity. |
| Learning verification modality | Oral exam. Attending students will be assessed through a final interview which, starting from a case, will focus on the topics covered during the lessons. |
| Extended program | The course analyzes the law relating to prisons, focusing on the Italian prison system, the principles and purposes of penitentiary treatment and on the entirety of the alternative measures to detention. Will be examined the evolution of the defense of inmates’ rights from the case Torreggiani v. Italy to the introduction of specific remedies. |