- Docente: Luca Mezzetti
- Credits: 7
- SSD: IUS/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0659)
Learning outcomes
The course of Human Rights is finalized to analyze, in first place, in a historical perspective, the theories and the models of protection of the fundamental and social rights. Further attention is subsequently devoted to the analysis of the protection of human rights in international law and European Union law. The course deals with the evolution of the protection of human rights in the Italian constitutional experience, with specific reference to rights and liberties guaranteed in the constitutional text and in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court and of the Supreme Court of Cassation. The course analyses also social rights and constitutional duties. The analysis is conducted through the constant reference to the most meaningful international, European and constitutional jurisprudence.
Course contents
The course of Human Rights is finalized to analyze, in first place, in a historical perspective, theories and models about the protection of fundamental and social rights. Further attention is subsequently devoted to the protection of human rights in international law (with a peculiar reference to ECHR) and European Union law. The course also deals with the evolution of the protection of the human rights in the Italian constitutional experience, with specific reference to rights and liberties guaranteed in the constitutional text and in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court and of the Supreme Court of Cassation. The course finally analyses social, cultural, economic rights and constitutional duties. The analysis is conducted through the constant reference to the most meaningful international, European and constitutional jurisprudence.
Readings/Bibliography
The texts to be prepared are:
L. Mezzetti (edited by), Diritti e doveri, Giappichelli, Turin, 2013 (chapters to be prepared will be specified);
L. Mezzetti - C. Pizzolo (edited by), Diritto processuale dei diritti umani, Maggioli, Rimini 2013;
Teaching methods
Lectures will take place in the II semester and therefore students can try the examination starting from May 2014.
Assessment methods
The examination consists in an oral test.
Office hours
See the website of Luca Mezzetti