Comparative Constitutional Justice

The course aims at developing the following skills:
- Knowledge and understandings: knowledge of the main models of constitutional justice and their possible development in hybrid forms; knowledge and understanding of the importance of constitutional jurisprudence in the description of the form of government; knowledge of the most significant rulings of foreign judges on rights.
- Applying knowledge: ability to read and understand rulings of foreign Constitutional court, ability to critically examine the role of Constitutional justice in different legal systems; ability to identify and understand the aim of the rulings relating to the distribution of powers;
- Autonomy of judgment: students shall be able to evaluate the rulings of Constitutional and Supreme Courts and their reasoning.
- Communication skills: students shall communicate their knowledge about the case-law studied in the course with an adequate use of legal terms. They also shall express their personal opinions relating to the cases studied.

At the end of the course, students can know the main models of foreign constitutional justice and consolidate their knowledge in topics already acquired in the courses of constitutional law, comparative public law and Italian constitutional justice. Thanks to the direct reading of the sentences students will have the opportunity to understand how the interpretation of the Constitutional norms adjust the content of rights and the form of government. Comparative law, in addiction, will enable students to understand different solutions to the same issues. Finally, the analysis of the argumentative process of the rulings will be a laboratory to understand the "work of the interpreter": the discussion of the thesis will upgrade critical skills, judgment skills and communication skills.