ID:
GIU0590
Duration (hours):
70
CFU:
10
SSD:
DIRITTO COSTITUZIONALE
Located in:
Como - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (26/09/2025 - 15/12/2025)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims at analyzing the Italian Constitution, focusing on the understanding of the constitutional text and its implications. It involves the studying of the notion of the Constitution and of the Italian legal system and its evolution, the fundamental constitutional principles, the constitutional powers, the sources of law, local and regional governments, the relationships between the Italian law system and the European/International legal systems, the fundamental rights, the judiciary and the judicial process, the constitutional system of adjudication and the judicial review of legislation. Particular attention throughout the course is devoted to the system of sources of law, the theory of normative acts and normative facts and the criteria for the solution of conflicts among normative acts.
Course Prerequisites
There are not prerequirements.
Teaching Methods
The course will consist in 70 hours of frontal lectures. It could also be provided for the holding of seminars – for a maximum of 6 hours – cared for by the staff of the professors in charge.
Assessment Methods
During the course, for students attending the lectures, there will be a constant and preliminary check on the understanding of the topics covered in the lectures and the level of ability gradually achieved, measured by informal tools such as the request for oral interventions at the beginning of each lecture to summarise the previous lecture, rather than by a dialogue and discussion between lecturer and students on certain topics covered in the lectures, especially those most in the debate (also due to the constitutional reforms underway).
Halfway through the lessons there will be an optional written partial test, based on multiple-choice and/or open-ended questions, addressed to all attending and non-attending students, the successful completion of which will exempt the student from preparing a part of the program in the first oral assessment at the end of the course. The test, if any, will consist of 15-25 multiple-choice questions, which students will have 10-30 minutes to answer. Open questions will be 1-4, to which students will have 30/70 minutes to answer. The outcome of the test will be weighted average with the assessment of the open questions, all measured in thirtieths.
The oral test shall in particular demonstrate the student's ability to argue critically in relation to the knowledge acquired, on questions that are not notional or mnemonic, but which demonstrate that he/she is able to deal with the study of the institutes of constitutional law in an autonomous and organic manner.
In the subsequent assessment after the first one, the examination shall always be oral, with three or four questions, rewarding not only the accuracy and quality of the answers, but also communication skills, mastery of legal terminology, the ability to justify the assertions and opinions put forward in a persuasive manner, and the ability to organise the discourse logically and in an orderly manner.
For foreign-language students, at their request, the examination may consist of an oral test in the first call.
For students who have to supplement credits, for whatever reason, the examination is always oral, after having agreed in advance with the lecturer on the texts and topics on which to carry out the supplementary oral.
Halfway through the lessons there will be an optional written partial test, based on multiple-choice and/or open-ended questions, addressed to all attending and non-attending students, the successful completion of which will exempt the student from preparing a part of the program in the first oral assessment at the end of the course. The test, if any, will consist of 15-25 multiple-choice questions, which students will have 10-30 minutes to answer. Open questions will be 1-4, to which students will have 30/70 minutes to answer. The outcome of the test will be weighted average with the assessment of the open questions, all measured in thirtieths.
The oral test shall in particular demonstrate the student's ability to argue critically in relation to the knowledge acquired, on questions that are not notional or mnemonic, but which demonstrate that he/she is able to deal with the study of the institutes of constitutional law in an autonomous and organic manner.
In the subsequent assessment after the first one, the examination shall always be oral, with three or four questions, rewarding not only the accuracy and quality of the answers, but also communication skills, mastery of legal terminology, the ability to justify the assertions and opinions put forward in a persuasive manner, and the ability to organise the discourse logically and in an orderly manner.
For foreign-language students, at their request, the examination may consist of an oral test in the first call.
For students who have to supplement credits, for whatever reason, the examination is always oral, after having agreed in advance with the lecturer on the texts and topics on which to carry out the supplementary oral.
Contents
The course program will focus on the following subjects:
1. The State: origins of the modern State and the evolution of the different models of State.
2. The Constitution and the Constitutional State. The Italian Constitution and its basic features.
3. The Constitution as source of law and the constitutional revision process.
4. The sources of law.
5. The Constitutional Court and the constitutional adjudication system.
6. The organization of political powers and its evolution in Italy.
7. Direct and representative democracy. The referenda. The electoral systems
8. The Parliament
9. The Government
10. The President of the Republic
11. The Judiciary
12. The regional and local governments
13. Fundamental rights and liberties.
14. The relationships between the European legal order end the Italian legal order.
1. The State: origins of the modern State and the evolution of the different models of State.
2. The Constitution and the Constitutional State. The Italian Constitution and its basic features.
3. The Constitution as source of law and the constitutional revision process.
4. The sources of law.
5. The Constitutional Court and the constitutional adjudication system.
6. The organization of political powers and its evolution in Italy.
7. Direct and representative democracy. The referenda. The electoral systems
8. The Parliament
9. The Government
10. The President of the Republic
11. The Judiciary
12. The regional and local governments
13. Fundamental rights and liberties.
14. The relationships between the European legal order end the Italian legal order.
Course Language
ITALIAN
More information
For any other informations, you can contact professor Grasso, giorgio.grasso@uninsubria.it
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