Theories and Practice of Human Rights

The course aims at introducing to the language, history and theories of fundamental rights, by providing conceptual bases and linguistic skills that are important for the study of issues regarding the implementation and protection of rights, that are considered in other courses in the same curriculum. Special attention will be paid to questions concerning the internationalization of rights, also considering the supranational and global perspective of the curriculum.

- Knowledge and understanding of notions of subjective, fundamental and human rights; their contextualization in an historical perspective, starting with their theorizing, going through their positivization, up to the more recent processes of multiplication and internationalization;
- Knowledge and understanding of the main questions in contemporary debate regarding the foundation of rights, their implementation, and the problems of their ineffectivity and of conciliating their universality with cultural diversity;
- Capability to apply knowledge and understanding to the analysis of contemporary processes of transformation and proliferation of rights at the national, international and supranational levels;
- Capability to apply the acquired knowledge to the analysis and discussion of specific legal cases raising the problem of the conflict of fundamental rights and of their balancing.