PUBLIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - I

The teaching is among the basic ones of the course of study in the Sciences of the Society and of the Social Service.
The course aims to provide students with the knowledge of the fundamental legal institutions of modern public law and the functioning of the institutions and organizations in which the Italian State is organized, as a starting point for the subsequent study of welfare policies and public organizations responsible for the management of social services. Essential for these purposes will be the acquisition of an appropriate legal technical language and the ability to frame the individual institutions within the reference regulatory system and the Italian form of state and government.

1. Knowledge and understanding
1.1 To understand the multilevel regulatory system that today regulates the relations between the different national, supranational and sub-state legal systems.
1.2 To know the individual public law institutions covered by the program.
1.3 Understanding the role that these institutions play in the context of the italian form of State and government.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
2.1 Knowing how to frame the single legal institutions in the form of the italian form of State and government.
2.2 Knowing how to identify the single legal norms or the various sets of them intended to regulate specific interorganic or intersubjective relationships.
2.3 Acquisition of the knowledge of the institutions, distinguishing the function specifically performed by each of them in the model of italian form of State and government.

3. Ability to judge
3.1 Interpret the normative texts.
3.2 Identify, distinguish and relate the principles and norms contained in the various sources of multilevel law.
3.3 To relate the legal institutions to each other and reassemble them to unity in the context of the Italian form of State and government.

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• The State and public bodies. Forms of state and forms of government
• The sources of law. The Constitution. The structure of the legal norm. The interpretation. The criteria for resolving antinomies. Primary sources. Secondary sources.
• The Italian form of government. Parliament. Government. President of the Republic. Tools for popular participation.
• Human rights
• Constitutional justice. Composition and functions of the Constitutional Court. The judicial review of legislation. Conflicts of attribution between powers of the state.

One to be chosen from the following:
- R. Bin, D. Donati, G. Pitruzzella, Outlines of public law for social services, Turin, Giappichelli, last edition, the following parts:
- Part I
- Part II (reading only)
- Part III
- Part VI
- Part VII (except par. 8 and 9)
- Part IX
- Part X

- T. Groppi, A. Simoncini, Introduction to the study of public law and its sources, Turin, Giappichelli, last edition, the following chapters:
- Chapter I (read only)
- Chapter II
- Chapter III (read only)
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V (except par. 4)
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII (excapt par. 10))
- Chapter IX
- Chapter XI

The study of the manual must necessarily be accompanied by the simultaneous reading of an updated Italian Constitution, easily available online also on the website www.normattiva.it

The written test consists of 4 open questions, relating respectively to the sources of law (1), the Italian constitutional organization (1), the human rights (1) and constitutional justice (1).

The course mainly follows a conventional teaching approach, through lectures.

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