Unit ISTITUTION OF PUBLIC LAW
- Course
- Communication studies
- Study-unit Code
- GP003616
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Nicola Pettinari
- Teachers
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- Nicola Pettinari
- Hours
- 42 ore - Nicola Pettinari
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline giuridiche, storico-politiche e filosofiche
- Academic discipline
- IUS/09
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The main contents of the course revolve around an overall overview of the essential aspects of Italian public law, through an understanding of the issues relating to the constitutional order, the organization and structure of public authorities and the relationship between public and private entities. The fundamental institutions of public law will be adequately investigated with a particular focus on the sources of Italian and European Union law as well as on the reciprocal relations between the State, Regions and the European Union. The organization and handling of said contents reflect the purpose of providing learners with knowledge of the main legal issues and the related linguistic mastery to develop skills for in-depth analysis and critical reflection.
- Reference texts
- P. CARETTI – U. DE SIERVO, Diritto costituzionale e pubblico, Torino, Giappichelli, latest ed.
- Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide a general knowledge of the principles and functioning of the Italian legal system, with particular reference to the system of fundamental freedoms and rights, in the light of the most recent socio-institutional developments.
- Prerequisites
- No prerequisites
- Teaching methods
- The course takes place with frontal teaching parts and parts in in-depth seminars.
- Other information
- nicola.pettinari@unipg.it
- Learning verification modality
- The exam takes place in oral form. In the event that the pandemic emergency continues, the provision of teaching and the verification of learning will take place in a mixed modality.
- Extended program
- Legal phenomenon and legal systems
The state and its constituent elements
Constitutionalism and the characteristics of the Italian Constitution
State forms and forms of government
Apparatus and community status. Representative democracy, direct democracy, participatory democracy
The Parliament / Government dialectic
The president of the Republic
The jurisdictional function
The territorial autonomies
The Constitutional Court and the constitutional justice system
The constitutional revision: procedural limits and supreme principles.
The system of freedoms: fundamental rights, social rights, guarantees
Principle of equality and protection of minorities. The category of weakness
Citizenship
Civil rights and freedom
Political rights
Social rights
Social policies, federalism and subsidiarity: problems and tools for an inclusive democracy.