EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION
Instructional goals
Understanding of the specificity of issues related to the relationship between the concept of justice and the protection of diversity.
Learning of the fundamental legal categories relating to issues related to the development of a pluralist, multiethnic and globalized society.
Development of critical reflection on legal problems related to the dynamics of inclusion and enhancement of diversity, both in the context of the public space and in that of the company.
Learning the logic of judicial decisions and the construction of regulatory texts that enhance the concepts of diversity, inclusion and equality.
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: The course will provide – through course attendance and interactive activities – basic knowledges about the methodology of legal science, including legal categories and legal reasoning.
Applying knowledge and understanding: The students will be able to detect all the philosophical implications arising from legal problems, as well as the formal structure of the legal reasoning. These skills will be tested during the oral exam, which will take place at the end of the course.
Making judgements: The students, thanks to the methodological tools acquired during the classes, will be able to evaluate autonomously the topics discussed during the classes. Also, they will be able to frame from a philosophical standpoint the main theoretical legal problems, elicited by the ongoing challenges the contemporary legal systems need to face. Students’ critical thinking will be enhanced also through short essays uploaded on the institutional website (LUISSlearn).
Communications Skills: This course will provide the students with the major terms and concepts in legal theory. The students will also be required to argue in a rhetorical-oriented way. These skills will be enhanced during exercitations and talks, where students will be asked to debate choosing one side.
Learning skills: Students will be able to recognize the different methodological perspectives underlying the different approaches of law. Students will be able to acknowledge the relationship between the nature of law on the one hand and legal doctrines and institutions on the other, both in their legal studies and in their professional life.
Course Contents
The concept of equality
The protection of diversity in a plural society
The concept of inclusion and enhancement of the different existential conditions of the person.
Reference Books
P. Ferragamo, Le formule dell’eguaglianza, Giappichelli, Torino, 2004
P. Ferragamo, Il principio di eguaglianza nell’etica contemporanea, Giappichelli, Torino, 2002
Materials provided by the lecturer
Teaching Methods
Teaching will include:
Lectures;
presentations made by students;
film and documentary visions;
cases analysis.
Teaching activities will be supported by the use of digital taching tools available in the LUISS learn platform:
LUISS learn wiki (collaboration tool)
LUISS learn forum (discussion & practice tool)
LUISS learn chat (discussion & practice tool)
LUISS learn forum (discussion & practice tool
Assessment Method
The assessment is also composed of
- a final oral interview, in which the student must demonstrate knowledge of the main categories of legal science and the tools of legal reasoning (30%)
- participation in collaborative projects to be presented during the course (30%)
Active participation in on-campus sessions. (40%)
Thesis assignment criteria
Manifestation of interest
Week 1
On campus session:
Course presentations:
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-questions
-assessment
The path of equality: history of a problem.
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Week 2
On campus session:
The principle of formal equality: a reflection on ethical decisionism.
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Week 3
On campus session:
Rawls's Thought: equality, justice, freedom
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Week 4
On campus session:
The question of language between ethics and law
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Week 5
On campus session:
The question of vulnerability between universalism and particularism
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Week 6
On campus session:
Bioethics and law. The protecetion of frailties in the esperienxe of the National Bioethics commitee
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Week 7
On campus session:
Semantics of equality: from tolerance to intersectionality
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Week 8
On campus session:
The principle of equality: from the prohibition of discrimination to the anti-subordination paradigm
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Week 9
On campus session:
Feminist Studies and Law
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Week 10
On campus session:
Gender, Sexuality: Identities and Law
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Week 11
On campus session:
Independent living and the protection of persons with disabilities
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Week 12
On campus session:
From discrimination to discernemnt. A path towards the richness of plurality
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