Interculturality and Comparative Protection of Human Rights
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
This professional skills workshop aims to develop and strengthen specific cross-cutting skills. The abilities learned will help students through their education and enable them to acquire an initial toolkit of skills for a given professional field. These also include the general interpersonal and communication skills that are required for the world of work.
Expected learning outcomes
The professional skills workshop uses interactive and participative teaching methods to develop specific knowledge and skills in selected professional fields. This didactic approach aims to strengthen teamworking, knowledge sharing and problem-solving abilities, while also helping students to practically apply the skills and knowledge they have gained previously within a specific practical setting.
The workshop is open to a limited number of participants, enabling the organisation and monitoring of individual and group work so as to create the best possible opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and understanding gained.
Participants will gain an awareness of the workshop's underlying themes, giving them a grounding from which to form their own personal opinion on the topic at hand.
The workshop is open to a limited number of participants, enabling the organisation and monitoring of individual and group work so as to create the best possible opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and understanding gained.
Participants will gain an awareness of the workshop's underlying themes, giving them a grounding from which to form their own personal opinion on the topic at hand.
Lesson period: First week
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First week
Course syllabus
The object of the course is the international protection of human rights in a comparative perspective. After introducing the student to the European and Inter-American regional systems of protection and promotion of human rights, the laboratory proposes the study of rights from a comparative perspective based on a clinical teaching method, which adopts a problematic and experiential approach. The contact with the practice of cases involving human rights aims to sensitize the student to the topic's relevant legal, social, and political issues, which are highlighted by the comparative approach. In this way, the analysis contributes not only to acquiring legal knowledge but also to forming an awareness of the law as a tool for social change, preventing conflicts, and proposing public policies. Lessons 1-2: The universal system and regional systems of human rights protection. Historical evolution and setting up of the European and Inter-American regional human rights protection systems. Lessons 3-4: The two regional systems' individual appeal, admissibility, and procedure. Lesson 5-6: Opiniones consultativas and Advisory Opinions according to Protocol n. XVI. Peculiarities and relevance in the two regional systems. Lesson 7-8: Jurisprudential analysis - The rights to cultural identity and linguistic rights in the Courts of Strasbourg and San José jurisprudence. Lesson 9-10: Jurisprudential analysis - brief writing and simulating judicial practice.
Teaching methods
The course adopts the clinical methodology and proposes knowledge of the formal contents of the standard starting from the study of concrete cases, that is, through an interactive teaching method with the use of experiential techniques. The comparative approach contributes to the interdisciplinary perspective, highlighting more general aspects of legal culture, which can constitute a source of social, political, and economic reflection. After illustrating the functioning mechanisms of the European and Inter-American regional systems of protection and the content aspect of the protected rights, the critical analysis of the European and Inter-American regional courts' paradigmatic decisions is proposed. After introducing the primary contents face-to-face or through recommended readings, the students shall work in small groups on concrete projects to promote respect for human rights through jurisprudential analysis, simulated practice, the brief -writing and processing of memories, observation of terms, etc.
Teaching Resources
Materials will be indicated by the professor.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Compulsory attendance for at least 80% of the meetings and evaluation of group works and oral presentations.
- University credits: 3
Professional training laboratories: 20 hours
Professor:
Posenato Naiara
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Posenato NaiaraProfessor(s)
Reception:
For in-person attendance, please contact [email protected] .
Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations - - Piazza Indro Montanelli, 1 Sesto San Giovanni Room 1048