Attendance

The course aims to illustrate the main topics of Italian public law. The course programme is structured as follows: 1 - Fundamental concepts. The juridical phenomenology. The legal system. The fields of law. Public and private law. The legal norm. The legal situations. The State and its characteristics. Citizenship. Territory. Sovereignty. The powers and functions of the State. The forms of State and the forms of government. Notion of democracy. Electoral systems. Political parties. The Constitution. Characteristics of the Constitution. The history of the Constitution. The structure of the Constitution. 2 - The sources of law. The “sources of law”. The primary level. State law. The legislative process (iter legis). Other rules that have the force of law. The referendum. The rules of constitutional bodies. The rules of the regions. The regional laws. The division of powers. The secondary level. Regulations of the Government. Custom. The constitutional principles. The rules of the European Convention on Human Rights. The rules of the European Union. 3 - Fundamental rights and freedoms. Fundamental human rights. Rights and freedoms. Social, political and economic rights. The principle of equality. 4 – The organization of the Republic. Parliament. The organization of Parliament. The functioning of Parliament. The Parliamentarian. The Government. The Council of Ministers (cabinet). The president of the Council of Ministers. The Ministers. The organization of the Ministries. The functions of the Government. The President of the Republic. The election of the President of the Republic. The functions of the President of the Republic. The judicial power. The judiciary. The Superior Council of the Judiciary. 5 - The regions and territorial entities. Regions. Local authorities and entities. 6 - The Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court. The composition and the functions of the Court. The judgment on the constitutionality of laws. The effects of the Court's judgments. The judgment on referendum. The judgment on conflicts between the powers of the State. The judgment on charges against the President of the Republic. 7 - Public administration and administrative law. Administrative law and public administration. Administrative power. The administrative procedure. The administrative act and the administrative provision. The administrative organization.