The course aims to provide for fundamental elements of knowledge about Public Law, intended as the basic discipline of State and other institutions’ powers, as well as framework course for further development of the study of legal subject in the Department of Political Science. Together with the general introduction to Public law, the course aims to provide the students with essential elements of legal language and practical tools for the access to sources of law, jurisprudence and legal literature. Also written exercitations, seminars and class discussions will help to reach these objectives.

The course aims to provide students with the elements of knowledge of public law, also promoting suitable self-learning processes through oral expositions during lessons or written papers, so as to guarantee the acquisition of the essential tools of legal language and knowledge of the methods of documentation on regulatory sources, doctrine and jurisprudence most relevant in the field of public law. So that, at the end of the course, the student has gained autonomous ability to apply the legal notions acquired in the professional sectors of competence. Through the didactic activities, the student must also acquire suitable methodological tools aimed at promoting autonomy of analysis and judgment of the different normative, jurisprudential and doctrinal sources and mature communication skills, of the specific legal discipline through both oral and written form.

The first part of the course Is devoted to illustrate the basic and fundative elements of Law in general, as well as to the essential elements of the general theory of law (notions of legal subjects, legal orders and legal norms, sources of law and collision rules, interpretation of law). This part is followed by the introduction to the theory of the State, paying specific attention to the evolution of the contemporary form of State between substatal entities and sovranational interdependence (starting with the European integration). The central part of the course focuses on the Italian constitutional order, the Italian constitution and its most relevant principles, the organization of public powers and institution. Particular attention is paid to dynamics linked to the separation of powers and the existence of checks and balances among public powers. The final part of the course is devoted to the constitutional principle on public administration and to the system of administrative justice.

It is possible to adopt as reference textbook one of the following: - A. Barbera-C. Fusaro, Corso di diritto pubblico, il Mulino, Bologna. - R. Bin-G. Pitruzzella, Diritto pubblico, Giappichelli, Torino. - P. Caretti-U. De Siervo, Istituzioni di diritto pubblico, Giappichelli, Torino. It is mandatory to stody the textbook together with the text of the constitution It is suggested to consult also a code of the main text of Public law.

Classes, focuses on specific topics and oral and written exercitations The online lessons will be dedicated to exercise lessons; student exhibitions; Testimonials

During the course, the learning will be verified through oral and written exercises (also in the form of lectures or written papers, even in groups) concerning the main topics studied by the teacher. The oral expositions and the written works of the students can compete in the final evaluation, with an arithmetic average of the mark obtained, if accepted. The intermediate test can compete in the final evaluation, with an arithmetic average of the mark obtained, if accepted, with exemption from the final examination of the part of the program covered by the intermediate test. The intermediate test is reserved for students of the current a.a. Students will be able to take advantage of the reported grade, with relative exemption, if they take the final exam in the summer and autumn session of the current a.a. Final oral exam 100%.

minimum mark of 25/30 after motivational interview