The Right to Vital Goods, Scientific Assessments and New Technologies

The course aims at providing the students with knowledge about the right to vital goods (in particular food, water and the environment), exploring the meaning of the term "vital goods" in the light of national and international public law doctrine and jurisprudence, and analyzing the instruments of protection offered to these goods and the rights among which they are included.

The teaching follows an innovative approach, since the topics will be treated by considering not only the legal aspects but also from a scientific point of view, even considering the impact that technological innovation can have on the preservation of and access to vital goods.

This thus allows the student to be offered a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of the subject.

At the end of the course, the student who has profitably learned the subject will have acquired a method of reasoning suitable for dealing with legal issues related to vital goods that lie at the intersection of international law and constitutional law but also have repercussions on the health of the consumer and the planet.

The teaching aims to make students achieve:

- knowledge of the tools for the protection of goods considered vital;
- ability to independently rework the main themes of the course;
- appropriate use of legal terminology;
- ability to learn a methodology of study and research that allows to evaluate the importance, but also the criticality, of the doctrinal, jurisprudential reflections and legislative approaches on the protection of vital goods, also taking into account the aspects and repercussions of the topics covered on the health of man and the planet
- ability to read and understand constitutional jurisprudence and the main documents of national and international bodies on the subject of the right to vital goods
- ability to apply the constitutional principles analyzed in the analysis of concrete cases