Public Law

A.Y. 2025/2026
9
Max ECTS
60
Overall hours
SSD
IUS/09
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
The course aims to teach students the fundamentals of Italian public law (sources of law, the general workings of State, the constitutional and administrative organisation of the Republic of Italy, the legal system and citizens' rights) and to build on the core legal education offered in all degree programme curricula.
In addition to textbook study, classroom learning is central (although not mandatory) to achieving these learning objectives, as lessons offer students an essential opportunity to learn the correct methodological approach to study and the appropriate legal terminology.
Expected learning outcomes
Upon completing the course, students will have a full understanding of the core public law institutions and will be able to discuss them in a strictly logical manner using accurate legal terminology. Students will be able to seamlessly continue the legal studies prescribed in the various curricula of the degree programme and to independently and cognitively analyse the Italian constitutional system (including its relationships with supranational legislation and current issues relating to political institutions).
Single course

This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.

Course syllabus and organization

A-K

Lesson period
First trimester
IUS/09 - PUBLIC LAW - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Shifts:
Turno
Professor: Pizzetti Federico Gustavo

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Responsible
Lesson period
First trimester
Course syllabus
As an indication, the course examines: the foundations of a legal order and the principles of legal reasoning; the forms of State; the international law (overall view) and the relationships between the international legal order and domestic legal order; the European integration's process and the European legal order (overall view); the system of the sources of law; the forms of government; the principles of Italian constitutional order; the Italian constitutional history; the fundamental rights; the referendum and the institutions of representative democracy; the Italian Legislative Power; the Italian President of the Republic; the Italian Executive Power; the Italian regional and local system of government; the Italian system of Public Administration; the Italian Judiciary; the Italian judicial review of legislation and Constitutional Court.
Prerequisites for admission
None.
Teaching methods
The teaching will take place through lectures, using videos and digital materials, facilitating questions and reflections for further insights. The internet site is: www.lifeimprisonment.eu
Teaching Resources
First and second units:
- notes from lessons;
- manual: L'ordinamento della Repubblica. Le Istituzioni e la Società, (a cura di) P. Bilancia e E. De Marco, Cedam, Padova, IV ed., 2021.
Third units:
- notes from lessons;
- manual: L'ordinamento della Repubblica. Le Istituzioni e la Società, (a cura di) P. Bilancia e E. De Marco, III edizione, Cedam, Padova, IV ed., 2021;
- book: P. Pinto de Albuquerque, I diritti umani in una prospettiva europea. Opinioni concorrenti e dissenzienti (2011-2015), a cura e con un saggio di Davide Galliani, prefazione di P. Bilancia, Giappichelli, Torino, 2016 (the Introduction, pages 5-46, and at least 10 separate opinions chosen by the student).
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam takes place in an oral test, usually three questions, each on a topic of a teaching unit, aimed at ascertaining the full knowledge of the subject and the ability to expose it with logical-systematic method and technical-legal language properties ( also to frame and describe new phenomena or case studies). In order to take the exam, therefore, the student must set up the study using a systematic interpretation of the institutes addressed during the course. The exam, in fact, requires the student to be able to handle all the subject, demonstrating that he or she has the ability to navigate public law topics.
IUS/09 - PUBLIC LAW - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor: Galliani Davide
Shifts:
Turno
Professor: Galliani Davide
Professor(s)
Reception:
Wednesday, h. 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Room n. 102, Building 4, 1st floor, Via Conservatorio 7, Milan, or at distance on MS Teams via direct videocall