The course focuses on public and EU law, on the analysis of the different legal traditions, as well as on the regulation of economic actvities having recourse to the comparative method.
The course will be divided into three parts:
1. Comparative method and constitutional legal studies. The legal systems of the world. Legal systems, legal families, ethnocentrism and Euro-Atlantic constitutionalism: mutual interferences and legal borrowings. Civil law, Common law, Soviet Law, African Law, Mixed jurisdictions, Islamic Law, Hindu Law, Hebrew Law, Far Eastern legal systems, The Russian area.
2. An introduction to Constitutional Comparative studies: constitutions, formation and alteration of the constitutions, frame of government, federalism and regionalism, constitutional litigation. EU law.
3. Public law for economics. The influence of globalization and of the EU law over public policies.
Bibliographical references:
Students that will attend the course:
a) appunti delle lezioni;
b) M. Nicolini, La giustizia costituzionale in Africa australe. L'eredità europea, il diritto tradizionale, il global judicial dialogue, FiloDiritto, Bologna, 2015.
c) L. Acquarone et al. Sistemi giuridici del mondo, Giappichelli, Torino,2012.
Students that will not attend the course:
1) G. Morbidelli, L. Pegoraro, A. Reposo, M. Volpi, Diritto pubblico comparato, Giappichelli, Torino, ult. ed.
Ch I;
Ch II;
Ch III, sect I;
Ch III, sect II, paras 1-4;
Ch III, sect III;
Ch IV;
Ch VI;
Ch VII;
Ch IX.
2) the Handbook will be complemented by one of the followings books (alternatively): 2a) M. Nicolini, La giustizia costituzionale in Africa australe. L'eredità europea, il diritto tradizionale, il global judicial dialogue, FiloDiritto, Bologna, 2015;
or
2b)F. Trimarchi Banfi, Lezioni di diritto pubblico dell'economia, Giappichelli, Torino, ult. ed.
oral exam