Insegnamento a.a. 2016-2017

30048 - INTRODUCTION TO THE LEGAL SYSTEM - MODULE 2

WBB - BIEF - BIEM

Department of Law

Course taught in English

Go to class group/s: 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 21 - 22 - 24

WBB (6 credits - II sem. - OB | IUS/05) - BIEF (6 credits - II sem. - OBBC | IUS/09) - BIEM (6 credits - II sem. - OBBC | IUS/05)

Classes: 15 (II sem.) - 16 (II sem.) - 17 (II sem.) - 18 (II sem.) - 21 (II sem.) - 22 (II sem.) - 24 (II sem.)

The main purpose of this course is to provide students with an advanced introduction to comparative constitutional law.

Intended Learning Outcomes

General Introduction: sources of law, constitutions, constitutional amendments constitutional statutes, ordinary statutes, law decrees, legislative decrees and delegated legislation, bye-laws and regulations.
Forms of State and Transitions to Democracy. Forms of Government. Electoral laws.
Federalism, Regionalism and Devolution in a comparative context.
Constitutional Justice: composition, role and functions of Constitutional and Supreme Courts. The fundamental aspects of American and European models of constitutional review. Classification of Court judgments and analysis of decision-making techniques.
The legal system of the European Union: system of legal sources and the relationship between European law and domestic legislation; the institutional structure; the evolution of the case law of the ECJ and domestic courts.
Political, economic and civil rights and related safeguards in a comparative context.
Special Part that shall decided at the beginning of the course.

Teaching methods

Assessment methods

The written exam consists of 40 multiple choice questions and 1 short essay. The exam format will be the same for attending and non-attending students, but the content will be different (see above).
Please note that there is only one written final exam every academic year at the end of the course semester; students have to sit oral exams in all other sessions. Students from previous academic years can only sit the written or oral exam as non-attending students.

For Attending students:

G.F. Ferrari (ed.), Introduction to Italian Public Law, Giuffrè, Milano, 2008, (only Chapters 1, 3, 4, 8, 10 and 14).
Articles, cases and other material that will be made available by the instructors at the beginning of the course also through the use of the e-learning space.

For Non-attending students:

G.F. Ferrari (ed.), Introduction to Italian Public Law, Giuffrè, Milano, 2008, (all chapters).

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