Public Law of the European Countries

The course will focus on the constitutional law of European countries in the context of the comparative classifications relating to the main "forms of State" and "systems of government". The analysis will consider historical and political basis of the constitutional evolution of the countries concerned, deepening in particular the question of sovereignty and the limits to the primacy of EU law. The use of comparative method is combined to the essential knowledge of historical and political contexts, taking advantage of synergy with other subjects taught in the same degree course.

The teaching method will stimulate the students' making judgments and applying knowledge, in addition to the traditional understanding ability. At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the knowledge necessary to understand the constitutional dynamics of the main countries examined, especially those belonging to the liberal-democratic tradition (the so-called Western democracies). The acquired knowledge will allow the student to analyze autonomously the constitutional characteristics of the European countries and to express both in written and oral presentations (the latter resulted from team work), an in-depth analysis based on the autonomous gathering of sources (legislation, case-law and doctrine) and on the use of a specific language.