TERRITORIAL AUTONOMY LAW

Academic year
2025/2026 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
DIRITTO DELLE AUTONOMIE TERRITORIALI
Course code
EM1132 (AF:582038 AR:328290)
Modality
Blended (on campus and online classes)
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
IUS/09
Period
4th Term
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
The course aims to provide students with the acquisition of theoretical and applicative tools relating to the system of territorial autonomies in the Italian constitutional system. At the end of the course, students must demonstrate adequate knowledge of the subject, not limited to the simple acquisition of notions but extended to critical and argumentative skills. The final evaluation will also be commensurate with the ability to connect the institutions and the various aspects characterizing the subject, in order to avoid a purely mnemonic repetition of the topics covered. An adequate knowledge of practical cases and specific cases of concrete political relevance will also be required, in order to verify the adequate understanding of the nature, rationale and inspiring principles of the institutions covered and the coherent interrelation between them.
1. Knowledge and understanding
1.1 To understand the multilevel regulatory system that today regulates the relationships 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 and of italian administrative organization

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 and administrative organization.
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 adn administrative organization

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. A basic knowledge of Public Law and Administrative Law is highly recommended
Regionalism and federalism
Origins and evolution of Italian regionalism
Regional statutory autonomy
Regional form of government
Regional legislative autonomy
Regional administrative autonomy and the principle of subsidiarity
Regional financial autonomy
Instruments for coordination between territorial levels of government

P. Caretti, G. Tarli Barbieri, Diritto regionale, Giappicelli, last edition:
Chapters I e II (only read)
Chapters III, IV, V, VI, VII (only Section II), IX

in addition to the material provided in the asynchronous remote lessons
The written test consists of 3 open questions relating to the topics covered by the program of the study.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.
written
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 Social Services 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 Social Services 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 Social Services 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, in blended mode, will follow a mixed teaching approach: 5 face-to-face lessons, 5 remote lessons in synchronous mode, 5 remote lessons in asynchronous mode
Italian
Ca' Foscari applies the Italian Law n. 17/1999 and Law n. 170/2010.
If you have a motor, visual, auditory or other disability, or a specif
learning disorder, we invite you to do two things:
1. Talk to your course instructor
2. Contact the office of disability support
disabilita@unive.it
Contact the office of disability support services (disabilita@unive.it) for
general information: to find out what you are entitled to by law, and to
request support and accommodation - www.unive.it/disabilita
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 04/03/2025