Italian and European Criminal Constitutional Law

The teaching, through a markedly multilevel analysis consistent with the objectives of the degree course, aims to provide a comprehensive picture of how the most relevant criminal issues are regulated in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in the European Convention on man and in the Italian Constitution.
Through the analysis of the interventions of the Italian Constitutional Court and the European Courts, topics such as the principle of legality and non-retroactivity of sentences, the purposes of punishment and its different typologies, the presumption of innocence, the European arrest warrant, the prison overcrowding and the prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading punishments and treatments, in order to allow students to understand the ways in which criminal matters are "governed" and the relevance that this issue has assumed in the legal debate contemporary domestic, European and international.

At the end of the course the student will have to know and be able to correctly and clearly explain the most important and current issues of criminal constitutional law, being able to address the legal problems that these pose from a multilevel perspective, identifying, interpreting and adequately applying the most relevant regulatory provisions.
Thanks to the classroom analysis of regulatory and jurisprudential sources, as well as fundamental case studies - also through forms of participatory teaching such as independent or group insights - you will also be able to develop mastery of the legal vocabulary and aptitude for critical judgement, both fundamental for addressing issues controversial, which increasingly characterize and will characterize the dynamics of comparison between the European and state systems, in particular the Italian one.