Public Law

The course aims at providing the students with the tools to understand and master the main concepts of contemporary constitutionalism and the fundamental institutions of Italian public law, with particular regard to: the legal phenomenon; the State and its elements; the forms of State; the forms of government; the relationship between the state system and the other legal systems; the system of the European Union and its impact on national law; the sources of law in the Italian legal system and its relations with the sources of the European Union; the general principles of the Italian constitutional order; the electoral body and the institutions of direct democracy; the Italian constitutional organization (Parliament, President of the Republic, Government); regional and local government; the constitutional principles relating to public administrations; freedoms and fundamental rights; the organization of the judiciary and constitutional justice. The issues will be addressed through the analysis of the institutions, of the constitutional text and of the main laws, which will also be examined considering the most recent institutional, political and social developments. Furthermore, the necessary tools to develop legal reasoning and to study other legal subjects will be provided.

At the end of the course, students will be able to: i) understand and recognize the basic language of Public Law; ii) use an adequate methodological approach to the legal studies; iii) develop critical and in-depth skills in the field of Public Law; iv) communicate knowledge through the adequate legal language and a logical reasoning.