49546 - Public Law and Fundamental Rights Protection

Academic Year 2010/2011

  • Docente: Diletta Tega
  • Credits: 9
  • SSD: IUS/09
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE IN MEDITERRANEAN SEA AND EURASIA (cod. 0888)

Learning outcomes

The course focuses on the analysis of protection of fundamental rights not only within the Italian legal system, but also in the International and European legal systems. 

The course aims to prepare students to handle the system of fundamental rights protection and to analise and discuss judicial decisions of Italian Corte costituzionale, ECHR and ECJ.

Course contents

Course contents:

  1. Law and norms. Public Law.

  2. Legal systems and constitutional law.

  3. The State and the other legal systems. International law and the EU Law. 

  4. Fundamental rights: theorethical aspects

  5. Italian Constitution and fundamentl rights

  6. The EU Law and fundamenatl rights

  7.  The international Law and fundamental rights: the international decalrations of rights

  8.  Judicial protection of fundamental rights

It will be also possible to adopt partly different contents on the basis of students studies. See also more details under "Text"

Readings/Bibliography

The exam is based on the text books and articles suggested during the first week of lessons. Examples of the  text books uses:

  1. A. Barbera, “Nuovi diritti”: attenzione ai confini, in L. Califano (a cura di), Corte costituzionale e diritti fondamentali, Torino, 2004, pp. 19-40;
  2. A. Morrone, “Il diritto costituzionale nella giurisprudenza e nelle fonti", Padova, 3rd ed., 2010, only the chapters suggested by the instructor;
  3. M. Cartabia (a cura di), I Diritti in azione, Universalità e pluralismo dei diritti fondamentali nelle Corti europee, Bologna, 2007, Parte I;
  4. I diritti fondamentali. Libertà e diritti sociali, P. Caretti, Torino, most recent edition, only the chapters suggested by the instructor.

In order to prepare the exam, students must consult a Public Law Code:

L. Califano (a cura di), La Costituzione della repubblica italiana, Rimini, most recent edition

M. Bassani, V. Italia, C.E. Traverso (a cura di), Leggi fondamentali del diritto pubblico e costituzionale, Milano, most recent edition

Teaching methods

Seminars will be scheduled to focus on the main course topics.

Assessment methods

The examination is oral. For those who have attended lessons it is possible to do a written exmination (discussion of a judicial case), during the end of the first part of the lessons.

Teaching tools

Students can download materials to be discussed during the lessons at www.guideweb.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Diletta Tega