CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF SOCIAL FORMATION

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: FRANCESCO PATERNITI

Expected Learning Outcomes

1. Knowledge and understanding: the course will pay attention to the issue of the inviolable rights of man and, specifically, to issues relating to social formations of constitutional significance. With this in mind, the student will have to acquire adequate knowledge to understand and deal with issues related to rights and freedoms, with particular reference to the discipline that the Constitutional Text reserves for social training.

2. Applying knowledge and understanding: the student must be able to examine the various constituent elements of social formations having constitutional relevance, also relating the respective disciplines.

3. Making judgments: the student must demonstrate the ability to analyze the legal regime applicable to the various social formations, also evaluating the compliance of a law with the constitutional provisions safeguarding fundamental rights.

4. Communication skills: the student, using appropriate legal terminology, must demonstrate that he is able to pause in the analysis of the qualifying and constitutive elements of a social education. If necessary, he must be able to clearly communicate the object of a legal text, summarize its fundamental points and grasp any implications.

5. Learning skills: the student must have acquired learning skills such as to be able to independently address any legal problems with which he will be called to confront.

Course Structure

Frontal lessons

Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of the main current issues, by which we mean the institutional, political and social events with respect to which the law stands as an instrument capable of offering rules and solutions.

Detailed Course Content

The course will pay attention to the issue of inviolable human rights, both in the individual sphere and in the collective one, in order to allow the student to acquire greater sensitivity on social issues of great importance. The lessons, in particular, will focus on:

  • on the constitutive and essential elements of the State;
  • on the concept and typologies of form of state;
  • on the legal rules through which political choices are expressed within the legal system;
  • on the constitutional discipline relating to rights and freedoms;
  • on the discipline that the Constitutional text reserves for social formations.

Textbook Information

1) GENERAL PART - MANUAL:

F. Giuffré, I.A. Nicotra, F. Paterniti, Public and Constitutional Law, 6th edition, Giappichelli, 2022, limited to the following parts:

· Part One, Chap. I, Sect. 1;

· Part One, Chap. I, Sect. 2;

· Part One, Chapter II;

· Part One, Chap. III, Sect. 1;

· Part One, Chap. III, Sect. 2;

· Part One, Chap. III, Sect. 3;

· Part One, Chap. III, Sect. 4;

· Part Three, Chap. I, Sect. 1

· Part Three, Chap. I, Sect. 2;

· Part Three, Chap. I, Sect. 3;

· Part Three, Chap. I, Sect. 4;

· Part Three, Chap. I, Sect. 3.

2) SPECIAL PART - FURTHER DETAILS:

F. Clementi, L. Cuocolo, F. Rosa, G.E. Vigevani, La Costituzione italiana. Commento articolo per articolo, Vol. I, Il Mulino, 2018, limited to the following parts:

Fundamental principles

(Articles 1-12) - pp. 13-90;

First part - First title

(articles 13-21) - pp. 95-153;

(articles 29-34) - pp. 197-231;

(articles 52-54) - pp. 332-349.

3) COLLECTION OF LAWS:

During the study it is necessary to constantly consult the regulatory texts referred to both in class and in the manual. For this purpose, you can use the following collection of laws:

AA.VV., Leggi fondamentali del diritto pubblico e costituzinale, 45th edition, Giuffré, 2021

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Elementi costitutivi dello StatoF. Giuffré, I.A. Nicotra, F. Paterniti, Diritto Pubblico e Costituzionale, 6ª edizione, Giappichelli, 2022
2Le forme di StatoF. Giuffré, I.A. Nicotra, F. Paterniti, Diritto Pubblico e Costituzionale, 6ª edizione, Giappichelli, 2022
3Principi supremi dell'ordinamento costituzionaleF. Giuffré, I.A. Nicotra, F. Paterniti, Diritto Pubblico e Costituzionale, 6ª edizione, Giappichelli, 2022
4Diritti e libertàF. Giuffré, I.A. Nicotra, F. Paterniti, Diritto Pubblico e Costituzionale, 6ª edizione, Giappichelli, 2022
5Diritti e formazioni socialiF. Giuffré, I.A. Nicotra, F. Paterniti, Diritto Pubblico e Costituzionale, 6ª edizione, Giappichelli, 2022
6I doveri costituzionaliF. Giuffré, I.A. Nicotra, F. Paterniti, Diritto Pubblico e Costituzionale, 6ª edizione, Giappichelli, 2022
7Le fonti del dirittoF. Giuffré, I.A. Nicotra, F. Paterniti, Diritto Pubblico e Costituzionale, 6ª edizione, Giappichelli, 2022

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The exam will take place orally