ANGLOAMERICAN PUBLIC LAW

Course objectives

Students will get knowledge and understanding of the Common Law Legal System, its connotations, its history and fundamental principles. Students can develop specific competences on the common law legal system which enables them to acquire skills necessary to understand complex realities and apply this knowledge in the working field. This course fits perfectly within the specific objectives of the Programme of Study in International Relations .

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GIULIA CARAVALE Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
The history of the Common law of England. - The Sources of Law. - The structure and basic principles of the British constitution. - The English Judicial System. - The British constitutional and political system. –The impact of European Community law on the Constitution. – The Brexit process. - Devolution. - The US constitutional and political system. - The US Federal Courts. – The Common law legal system and the Commonwealth countries. - The protection of human rights in Common law. – The Canadian System of government. - Seminars
Prerequisites
Basic methodological principle of comparative law
Books
U. Mattei, E. Ariano, Il modello di common law, Giappichelli, Torino, 2018. G. Caravale, A Family of Nations. Asimmetrie territoriali nel Regno Unito tra devolution e Brexit, Jovene, 2017.
Frequency
Class attendance is not compulsory.
Exam mode
The test, in oral form, will be divided on the basis of three questions about. For non attending students the exam test will only concern texts indicated in the program. For attending students the exam test will concern mainly topics explained in class and a short paper on a specific topic discussed in class.
Lesson mode
All lectures are carried out in class. Attending students can also prepare a short paper on a specific topic, in order to apply themselves to the acquired knowledge.
  • Lesson code1017512
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseInternational Relations and Supranational Institutions
  • CurriculumRelazioni internazionali e istituzioni sovranazionali (Percorso valido per il conseguimento del doppio titolo italo-francese e per il programma “Eurosud south european studies”, con università spagnola-francese-belga-greca).
  • Year1st year
  • Semester2nd semester
  • SSDIUS/21
  • CFU9