EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW

Through the attendance of lectures, the study and analysis of reference texts and suggested materials, the student acquires a solid understanding of the regulatory environment in which different economic agents operate, with particular reference to forms of state and government, to fundamental rights protection, as well as institutional issues concerning the governance of the European Union.

The aim of the course is to provide the basic knowledge of public law through knowledge of the main existing forms of state and government at a comparative level. In addition, the student will acquire knowledge of the legal foundations of the European Union, its unitary institutions, their competences and functioning. At the end of the course, the student shall be able to use the acquired knowledge in practice.

Essential knowledge of basic law concepts

Part I:
a) Essential concepts of public law; notion of state
b)The notion and the elements of the form of state. The main forms of state (authoritarian state and democratic state; rule of law; centralised state, federal state, regional state; liberal state and welfare state)
c) The notion of the form of government. The presidential form of government. The directorial form of government. The parliamentary form of government. The semi-presidential form of government.
d) Fundamental rights and their protection. References to constitutional justice.

Part II:
e) Historical evolution of the European integration process
f) European Union institutions
g) European Union legislation
h) European Union competences
i) Multilevel protection of rights

Special Part:
l) The impact of European Union membership in the Italian Context

Robert Schütze, European Constitutional Law, Cambridge University Press, Third Edition, 2021
Stefania Ninatti, Giovanni Piccirilli, Giorgio Repetto, Diletta Tega, Italian costitutional law in the European context, Wolters Kluwer, 2023: only Part II, par. A ( "The Italian Contribution to European Integration"); par. B ("European Drivers in the Innovation of the Italian Legal order").

PAY ATTENTION: BIBLIOGRAPHY MIGHT CHANGE. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE COURSE PARTS WILL BE BETTER SPECIFIED.

Additional material suggested during the course.

Written examination with open-answer questions. Students have to answer three questions in 60 minutes.
Each question will be pointed out of 10. The sufficiency threshold per question is 6/10.
Further instructions on examination will be provided during classes.

Lectures and exercises on case studies

English

English

written

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development