ADMINISTRATIVE LOW

Administrative Law is a characterising educational activity chosen from the group of Scientific, Technological and Economic-Legal Disciplines of the Master's degree course in Archival and Library Science.
The course describes the legal principles that identify public institutions, defining their legal autonomy; it illustrates the discipline of public administration, private and public law, in particular administrative acts and procedures.

At the end of the course the student should have acquired:
Knowledge and understanding
The student will acquire knowledge relating to the main institutions of administrative law.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
The course aims to enable the student to apply the information both with respect to and in connection with the other subjects of the course of study, and in a perspective oriented towards the world of work.

Judgement
The student will acquire adequate methodological tools to orient themselves in the complex regulatory framework of reference, acquiring greater awareness of the main regulatory institutions in administrative law.

Communication skills
The course aims to develop the ability to use the specific language of the discipline.

Learning skills
The course provides reading keys and interpretative tools that allow the student to acquire self-learning and self-assessment skills.

No previous knowledge of law is required.

Birth of administrative law
The relationship between administrative law and other branches of law
The sources of administrative law: constitutional, European and legislative sources
The sources of administrative law: government regulations. Notes on general administrative acts
The principles of administrative law: responsibility and legality
The principles of administrative law: impartiality, good performance and proportionality.

The exam ascertains knowledge and understanding of the topics covered and the ability to apply the knowledge acquired through questions that also aim to verify the ability to present and appropriately use specific terminology.

oral

The examination will be evaluated according to the following parameters:
the student's ability to convey the knowledge acquired in a personal and critical manner, demonstrating the use of language appropriate to the subject matter and the mastery of the expressive medium will be evaluated with marks ranging from excellent to good (30L-27); a mnemonic knowledge of the subject matter, together with the ability to synthesise and analyse articulated in a correct but not always appropriate language, will lead to fair marks (26-24); formative gaps and/or inappropriate language - albeit in a context of minimal knowledge of the examination material - will lead to marks that do not exceed sufficiency (23-18); formative gaps, inappropriate language, lack of orientation within the bibliographical materials offered during the course will be assessed negatively.

Frontal lessons with the aid of PowerPoint.