PUBLIC LAW

The teaching is among the basic ones of the course of study in the Sciences of the Society and of the Social Service.
The course aims to provide students with the knowledge of the fundamental legal institutions of modern public law and the functioning of the institutions and organizations in which the Italian State is organized, as a starting point for the subsequent study of welfare policies and public organizations responsible for the management of social services. Essential for these purposes will be the acquisition of an appropriate legal technical language and the ability to frame the individual institutions within the reference regulatory system and the Italian form of state and government.

1. Knowledge and understanding
1.1 To understand the multilevel regulatory system that today regulates the relations between the different national, supranational and sub-state legal systems.
1.2 To know the individual public law institutions covered by the program.
1.3 Understanding the role that these institutions play in the context of the italian form of State and government.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
2.1 Knowing how to frame the single legal institutions in the form of the italian form of State and government.
2.2 Knowing how to identify the single legal norms or the various sets of them intended to regulate specific interorganic or intersubjective relationships.
2.3 Acquisition of the knowledge of the institutions, distinguishing the function specifically performed by each of them in the model of italian form of State and government.

3. Ability to judge
3.1 Interpret the normative texts.
3.2 Identify, distinguish and relate the principles and norms contained in the various sources of multilevel law.
3.3 To relate the legal institutions to each other and reassemble them to unity in the context of the Italian form of State and government.

No specific courses are required as prerequisites.

The State and public bodies. Forms of state and forms of government
The sources of law. The Constitution. The structure of the legal norm. The interpretation. The criteria for resolving antinomies. Primary sources. Secondary sources.
The Italian form of government. Parliament. Government. President of the Republic. Tools for popular participation.
Human rights
Judicial review of lewgislation

A. Cardone, F. Cortese, A. Deffenu, Istituzioni di diritto pubblico, Giappichelli, last edition, the following parts:
Chapters III, IV, VI, IX, X
Chapters I, II (reading only)

The written test consists of 3 open questions, relating respectively to the sources of law (1), the Italian constitutional organization (1), the Constitutional Court and human rights (1). Each question will be given a score from 0 to 30. Passing the exam requires achieving a minimum score of 18 for at least two out of three questions.

Regarding grade grading (how grades will be assigned):
Scores in the 18-22 range will be awarded if there is:
- sufficient knowledge and applied understanding with reference to the syllabus;
- limited ability to collect and/or interpret data, making independent judgments;
- sufficient communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language pertaining to the Public Law

Scores in the 23-26 range will be awarded in the presence of:
- fair knowledge and applied comprehension skills with reference to the syllabus;
- discrete ability to collect and/or interpret data, making independent judgments;
- fair communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language pertaining to the Public Law

Scores in the 27-30 range will be awarded in the presence of:
- good or very good knowledge and applied comprehension skills with reference to the syllabus;
- good or excellent ability to collect and/or interpret data, make independent judgments;
- fully appropriate communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language pertaining to the Public Law.

P. honors will be awarded in the presence of applied knowledge and understanding with reference to the program, judgment and communication skills, excellent.

The course mainly follows a conventional teaching approach, through lectures.

Italian

Ca' Foscari applies the Italian Law n. 17/1999 and Law n. 170/2010.
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learning disorder, we invite you to do two things:
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2. Contact the office of disability support
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