Educational objectives 1. Knowledge and understanding.
The aim of the course is to provide students with the essential elements of comparative public law, with regard both to the evolution of modern constitutionalism in its historical perspective and to its current trends and problems, enabling students to acquire the best possible terminology and a clear methodological awareness of what is meant by "legal comparison".
In this sense, within the framework of a study and analysis in the diachronic and synchronic comparison of the different constitutional experiences that will be taken into consideration, both the principles and values underlying the legal norms, subjects and institutions qualifying each system will be taken into account, as well as their actual performance, their transposability in other contexts and their usability for the configuration of institutional models of other systems.
Consequently, in the first part, the course aims to provide the theoretical knowledge concerning comparative public law, addressing in particular the issues related to the definition of the comparative method and the identification of the main Forms of State and Government from the point of view of their doctrinal definition. The second part, on the other hand, will examine, in more detail, the constitutional systems of some of the main liberal-democratic legal systems, and in particular Common Law systems and Anglo-American constitutional law, with regard to their historical evolution and the main current issues.
The purpose of the lectures is of course also to stimulate discussion between lecturer and students on the proposed topics, and in this sense, during the teaching period, students will be offered additional teaching materials, functional to better learning.
At the same time, in order to encourage a better in-depth study of the topics covered in the course and to acquire a method of reasoning suitable for dealing with related legal issues, the face-to-face lectures held by the lecturer in charge of the subject will be flanked by those of other figures invited to examine more specific aspects in depth (e.g.: lecturers and scholars from other Italian or foreign universities; senior public officials; magistrates and lawyers; persons holding institutional positions; professional journalists).
In addition to the face-to-face lectures, in-depth seminars will also be organised by the Chair, held by lecturers and scholars of the subject, also in order to encourage in-depth thematic study useful for a better understanding first and foremost around the strand of republican institutions (birth, development, dynamics in the evolution of the country), which will be a dominant part of the Course.
In this sense, it is highly recommended that students attend lectures and organised meetings, as well as subscribe to the Course newsletter, which will be made available to students right from the start of the Course, also in order to be fully aware of the notices, information and materials that will be distributed and socialised during the lecture period.
Consequently, at the end of the Course, having successfully passed the examination, the student shall be well acquainted with the methodology of comparison and the essential aspects of the systems analysed, through the examination of their constitutional history, constitutional provisions and practice. At the same time they shall be able to apply to concrete cases the criteria for classifying forms of State and Government derived from the theoretical and empirical study of the same; as well as to be able to independently and consciously rework both the constitutional principles and provisions analysed, and the elements suitable for fostering - with appropriate legal vocabulary and terminology - an ability and capacity for argumentation suitable for highlighting and publicly supporting the essential aspects of the systems analysed, thus demonstrating that they know how to make the best use of the notions acquired.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. At the end of the Course, having successfully passed the examination, the student will have acquired the necessary tools for learning the institutions of comparative public law and the functioning of institutions, also through constant reference to the constitutional text. In addition, in the light of the skills acquired, he/she will be able to formulate legal reflections and analyses of a publicist nature on the main issues arising in the Italian and international public sphere. This argumentation on the part of the student - thus also enabling a correct re-elaboration and exposition of the contents learned - will be put into effect through the conscious use of legal vocabulary and the techniques proper to his reasoning. In this way, it will be possible to apply what has been studied both to concrete political-institutional events and to the analysis of regulatory materials, case law and what the legal-publicist doctrine proposes daily in the public debate.
3. In this sense, the development of critical and judgmental skills will be fostered during the lectures by the lecturer, both by using the techniques of argumentation, and thus first and foremost the exposition, discussion and free confrontation between lecturer and students around the topics that are gradually proposed, and by a strong reciprocal interaction through the use of web tools, newsletters and social media (which the chair has been using for some time for these purposes).
4. Students are expected to have acquired an ability to communicate what they have learnt through discussion in the classroom or in the organised seminars, the presentation of any group work on specific in-depth topics of the course, or the drafting of written reports on case law cases to be submitted for discussion with the lecturer and course colleagues.
5. The student is expected to have acquired a knowledge and awareness of comparative public law and its multiple interrelationships with other subjects qualifying the relations between institutions and society (from history to political science, sociology and economics), and to be able to independently and appropriately undertake a critical reading and understanding of texts and regulatory, administrative and jurisprudential acts of liberal democratic systems and the European Union.
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Educational objectives 1. Knowledge and understanding: after having passed the exam students should know the roots and development of political movements in Italy from the advent of mass society to the crisis of the so-called "first Republic" with particular attention to political parties and considering: the political cultures of post-unification Italy and the political movements of the nineteenth century; the birth of mass parties; The fascist regime; Cultures and political parties in republican Italy; The crisis and the transformations of the last decades in Italy and in Europe.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: after having passed the exam students should be able: to move among the great themes of the twentieth century, managing to place them over time; to evaluate the links between cause and effect between the events of the past and contemporary reality; to distinguish new phenomena from facts and problems that are rooted in distant years; to use a lexicon and a cognitive baggage that allows him a knowledge of political history and its main expressions.
3. Critical faculties should be developed through the constant involvement of the students in discussions during the lessons, written exercitations and listening to points of views different from the professor’s
4. Communications skills. The ability to communicate what was learned should be developed through the constant involvement of the students to discussions during the lessons, in order to stimulate reflection, to teach public speaking, to give students the opportunity to strengthen their points of view by comparing them with others and with the professor
5. Learning skills. The ability to continue studying the topics should be developed through the ability to carry out a bibliographic research in the historiographical field and to use various sources allowing students to access very different documents and materials
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