Unit PUBLIC LAW
- Course
- Economics and management sciences
- Study-unit Code
- 10019309
- Location
- TERNI
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Luca Castelli
- Teachers
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- Luca Castelli
- Hours
- 63 ore - Luca Castelli
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline giuridiche
- Academic discipline
- IUS/09
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Juridical systems.
Forms of State. Forms of Government.
Constitutional organization in Italy.
Rights and freedom in constitution.
Organization of justice. - Reference texts
- The student may choose one of the following books, as long as it is the latest edition:
- A. Barbera - C. Fusaro, Corso di diritto pubblico, il Mulino.
- A. Barone – C. Colapietro – G. Serges, Diritto pubblico per l’economia e gli studi sociali, Giappichelli.
- F. Bilancia – S. Civitarese Matteucci, Il Diritto pubblico nella società contemporanea, Giappichelli.
- R. Bin - G. Pitruzzella, Diritto pubblico, Giappichelli.
- T. Groppi – A. Simoncini – E. Longo, Introduzione allo studio del diritto pubblico e delle sue fonti, Giappichelli.
Mandatory reading: L. Castelli, Il Sistema delle Conferenze. Terza Camera o sede di ratifica?, il Mulino, 2023. - Educational objectives
- A good knowledge of main lines of Italian public law.
The course is designed both to provide students with a basic knowledge
and understanding of the main framework of the public law, also as a
premise for the further legal courses that the students will attend in their
subsequent career and in order to realise the relevance of the legal
dimension in the political systems. After a general introduction to some
fundamental concepts of the discipline, the students will be stimulated on
the study of the Italian system (civil law), being asked to deal with firsthand
material and case-law, in order to widen their practical knowledge
of the subject, too. - Prerequisites
- No formal prerequisites are required to attend the course.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized in theoretical lessons (63 hours).
During the course will be students presentation of seminars on topics
regarding the teaching course and progress assestments - Other information
- Office hour is before and after class. Students are kindly requested to write to luca.castelli@unipg.it in order to set up an appointment.
Thesis can concern: Premiership; asymmetric autonomy; reform of judicial power; perfect bicameralism; Italian regionalism; self-justice of constitutional bodies; the role of the President of the Republic; the implementation of PNRR; the reform of the Constitution; democratic backsliding - Learning verification modality
- Students' knowledge and abilities will be assessed through oral exam at the end of the course. No mid-term exams will be provided. The exam will focus on all the contents of the textbook.
- Extended program
- - Introduction to public law
- order and juridical system
- the State and its constituent elements
- sovereignty
- forms of state and forms of government
- The constitutional State
- Italy and the EU
- The Parliament
- The Government
- The President of the Republic
- Electoral body
- the Public Administration
- Regions and local authorities
- The judiciary
- The Constitutional Court
- The rights of liberty
- The system of sources of law.