LAW OF ELECTED ASSEMBLIES

The course aims to provide critical knowledge of methods and procedures of the parliamentary work in Italy, also in relationship with other elective assemblies such as the European Parliament.

Either Public Law or Constitutional Law; EU Law

1. Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of the main sources, written and unwritten, in which to find the rules in force (including relevant constitutional jurisprudence on the subject); 2. Applying knowledge and understanding: ability to reconstruct the progress of parliamentary activity, on institutional websites: programming procedures, legislative process, oversight procedures, European procedures. 3. Making judgments: evaluate compliance with the rules and, more generally, with the constitutional principles of the individual procedures and the ways in which the rules have been interpreted in individual cases (giving rise to the so-called "precedents") 4. Communication skills: be able to report, summarize and comment (orally and in writing) on the contents of judgments of the Constitutional Court and the main characteristics of each topic of parliamentary law. 5. Learning skills: being able to master and critically analyze the events of parliamentary news, the preparatory activity of a law and the jurisprudence related to it.

1. The Euro-national parliamentary system 2. Politics and its limits 3. Evolution of parliamentary Rules of Procedure 4. Sources of Parliamentary law. 5. The status of MPs and political representation 6. The presiding officer 7. The political groups 8. The parliamentary committees 9. The function of Parliament 10. The parliamentary procedures 11. Italian Parliament in the EU 12. The European Parliament 13. Parliaments during the emergency

Core Textbooks L. GIANNITI-N. LUPO, Corso di diritto parlamentare, IV ed., Il mulino, Bologna, 2023. N. LUPO-A. MANZELLA, Il Parlamento Europeo, II ed., LUP, Roma, 2024 Latest version of the Rules of Procedures of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate

Lectures and class discussion; seminars given by parliamentary officials; practice on the websites; class presentations on Constitutional Court's case law; simulation of proceedings; "adoption" of a legislative bill. Constant references to political and institutional current affairs, seen as the application of the norms and procedures studied.

Intermediate written exam (compulsory in presence). This test is worth 25% of the final grade. The written test will consist of some open-ended questions relating to a text (taken from a judgment of the Constitutional Court or from a bill or similar). - “Adoption” of a bill: the student must choose a bill under discussion in one of the branches of Parliament and fill in a form made available by the teachers. This test is worth 5% of the final grade.

Final mark higher than 27. Vivid interest for the public law courses.