Comparative Constitutional Traditions

The course will give the students the methodological tools to analyze and compare different constitutional traditions. The course will focus on the traditions of Western Legal culture and the constitutional traditions in the Global South. The students will gain an in-depth knowledge of the challenges of contemporary constitutional systems across the globe

At the end of the course, the students will be able to critically assess the different constitutional traditions from a comparative perspective. They will be able to address the main contemporary challenges of constitutional law in comparative perspectives, also identifying the specificity of each different constitutional tradition at a global level.
They will be able to analyze the case law of different jurisdictions and compare the legal reasoning.