PUBLIC LAW

Learning Objectives

• LO STATO E LE SUE FONTI. L'ORGANIZZAZIONE DELLO STATO E DELLA REPUBBLICA
  Module 1 is intended to introduce the general notions on legal sources and types of constitutions and the study of the Italian Constitution. It is also intended to provide general knowledge about the State and specific knowledge about the Italian constitutional organization and the constitutional bodies, on Italian internal sources and on the European and on their relationships.
• DIRITTI FONDAMENTALI: GIUSTIZIA ORDINARIA E COSTITUZIONALE
  Module 2 is intended to provide specific knowledge about freedoms and the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, on the functioning of the Constitutional Justice, the order of magistrates and the constitutional system of the judiciary.
  The module also provides specific insights on the constitutional position of the minister of justice, the control over the judiciary and disciplinary functions of the Supreme Judicial Council.
  
  

Detailed Course Content

• LO STATO E LE SUE FONTI. L'ORGANIZZAZIONE DELLO STATO E DELLA REPUBBLICA
  Sources of production. Sources of knowledge. Sources-fact and sources-act. Techniques for referral to other jurisdictions. The function of interpretation. The conflicts and resolution techniques. The chronological criterion and repeal. The hierarchic criterion and annullment. The criterion of specialty. The criterion of competence. Subject to the law and rule of law. Meaning of "constitution". Constituent power and constituted powers. Constitutions "flexible" and constitutions "rigid". The guarantees of the constitutional "rigidity". Written constitution and constitutional law. Dispositions, norms, rules, principles, values, interests. The Italian Constitution. The State. Forms of State. Forms of Government. The Government. The Parliament. President of the Republic. Constitution and constitutional laws. Ordinary formal law and acts with the force of law. Parliamentary bylaws (and of the other constitutional bodies). Bylaws of the governmant. Regional statutes. Regional laws. Regional bylaws. Sources of local authorities. The system of European sources.
• DIRITTI FONDAMENTALI: GIUSTIZIA ORDINARIA E COSTITUZIONALE
  The principle of equality. Freedoms and the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Constitutional Justice. Constitutional Court. The constitutional control over laws. The conflicts overe asignments. The admissibility of the recall referendum. Ordinary judges and special judges. Constitutional principles concerning the jurisdiction. The legal status of magistrates. The Supreme Judicial Council. Minister of justice.