The course aims to provide the student with a general and systematic preparation of Italian constitutional law, understood as a basic discipline on the structure of state powers and other public institutions and as a framework course that opens up to subsequent specific in-depth studies covered by other public law courses taught. Together with the general outlines of the subject, the course aims to provide students with the essential tools of legal language and the knowledge of the methods of documentation on the most relevant normative sources, doctrine and jurisprudence in the field of constitutional law.

Knowledge and understanding of the Italian constitutional order, placed within the framework of the institutional arrangements of the European Union. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. The student, acquiring knowledge and understanding the operating dynamics of the main institutions of constitutional law (the State, the State and the international community, the Italian Republic and the European Union, forms of state and forms of government, sources of law, constitutional guarantees, constitutional justice, constitutional organization, judicial power, constitutional principles on administration, territorial autonomies, freedoms and rights) will be able to build more complex concepts in order to achieve a vision of ensemble of the constitutional order in the EU and international context. Autonomy of judgment: the student will be stimulated to achieve his own autonomy of evaluation and judgment on legal problems and the methodological tools useful for the collection, interpretation and application of regulatory sources, in order to apply them independently and original to the analysis of the problems that will be faced in the workplace. Communication skills. The student will be brought to develop and use with mastery the legal lexicon of constitutional area, with terminological precision and an appropriate rhetorical and argumentative ability. Learning ability. The student will develop the ability to identify and interpret regulatory changes and new doctrinal and jurisprudential orientations, also updating independently.

The course consists in the presentation of the main institutes of Constitutional Law. In brief the themes are the following: Organization of Powers – State – Forms of State – Forms of Government – Italian Constitutional Organization – Regions and Local Government – Public Administration – Public Acts and Rights’ defense - Sources of law – Constitution – The sources of Italian Law – European Sources of Law – Local Sources of Law – Administrative Acts – Rights and Liberties – Judicial Administration – Constitutional Justice - State and the markets. Each week, part of the teaching will be dedicated to the deepening of normative or jurisprudential case studies, also taken from current affairs, in order to provide applied and knowledge to the students.

One of the following textbooks, in its last edition: A. Barbera-C. Fusaro C- Caruso, Corso di diritto costituzionale, Il mulino, 2026; R. Bifulco, Diritto Costituzionale, Giappichelli, 2026; R. Bin-G. Pitruzzella, Diritto costituzionale, Giappichelli, 2026. Also other textbooks might be used, in their latest edition, to be previously approved by the instructor. Mandatory is the constant reference to the text of the Italian Constitution. It is also recommended the use of a code of the main laws of constitutional and public law. As a further suggestion, students are invited to consult the relevant parts of La Costituzione italiana. Further materials will be distributed on the e-learning platform.

The teaching makes constant reference to the events taken from current political and constitutional events, in order to apply and test the notions learned. Reference will also be made to case studies by circulating the relevant materials (laws, bills, judgments)

Mid-term written text, optional and covering the first part of the program, if the student wants to make use of it.

Final mark of 28 or above. Interview