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 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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. (The manual must be studied in its entirety with the exception of the following chapters: "Italy and the European Union", "The organization of state administrative systems", and "Principles in terms of administrative activity")
- Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide an overall knowledge of the principles and functioning of the Italian legal system, with particular reference to the constitutional bodies (structure and functions), to the relationships between them, and to the system of freedoms and fundamental rights, in the light of the most recent socio-institutional evolutions.
- 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 preferred way of verifying the learning of the course contents is the one in oral form. If the number of candidates registered for the exam do not allow the procedure to be closed on the day indicated, the test will be carried out in written form.
- Extended program
- Legal phenomenon and legal systems
The state and its constituent elements
Constitutionalism and the characteristics of the Italian Constitution
Forms of state and forms of government
State apparatus and State community
The sources of law
Representative democracy
Institutes of direct democracy
The parliament
The government
The president of the Republic
The judicial function and the Judiciary
Territorial autonomy (Regions and local authorities)
The Constitutional Court and the constitutional justice system
The constitutional review: procedural limits and supreme principles.
The basic principles. In particular:
Principle of equality
Principle of pluralism
Rights and freedoms. In particular:
Civil rights
Political rights
Social rights - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile