HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
cod. 1005545

Academic year 2014/15
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Diritto costituzionale (IUS/08)
Field
Costituzionalistico
Type of training activity
Basic
45 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Learning objectives

The course aims to provide the theoretical, conceptual and
methodological tools to analyze the process of positivization and the
evolution of human rights, in the national, supranational and
international law. The course aims to provide students with a better
understanding of models and techniques for the protection of
fundamental rights through the study of the constitutional case law,
and of other courts judgments.
Skills and abilities acquired at the end of the course:
- Knowledge of the major universal and regional systems of human rights
protection and the related guarantees, with particular attention to the
European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and
the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
- Understanding of the techniques to guarantee civil and political rights,
economic, social and cultural rights in the context of universal and
regional systems of protection of fundamental freedoms.
- critical analysis of national, international, and supranational law on
human rights; critical analysis of the national and
supranational courts case law regarding human rights.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive background on
liberties and fundamental rights as essential content of the contemporary
constitutionalism.
The first section of the course will regard the development of human
rights in an historical perspective; the philosophical basis and content of
the doctrine of human rights; the legal concept of human rights; methods
of interpreting human rights, the internationalization of human rights
and the promotion and protection of human rights within universal and
regional levels.
Particular attention will be paid to the courts' changing trends, due to the
decisive role of judges (constitutional, national and supranational) in
search of ways to guarantee individual rights.
The second section of the course will consider issues of the recent social
and cultural debate through practical activities and didactic laboratories.
These are the main issues of the course: rights, duties and solidarity in
the constitutional project of social justice; social rights and rights to a
reduction of the economic inequality, welfare State, financial crisis and
public finance equilibrium: The economic sustainability of the welfare
state and of social policies, workers’ rights and transformations of the
labour market; human rights over time: environment, cultural heritage,
future generations; civil rights and anti-discrimination policies (families
and new family models, equal opportunities); body, sexuality, life
technologies: the right to the sexual identity, ethical and juridical
conflicts in the face of the medically assisted procreation, end-lifedecisions,
the protection of health and the freedom of choice; rights in
the evolution of communication technologies (internet, social networks,
etc.); rights in the perspective of cultural and religious pluralism.

Full programme

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Bibliography

P. CARETTI, Diritti fondamentali. Libertà e diritti sociali, Torino,
Giappichelli, 2011, only these parts of the book:
- Parte generale. – I. La prospettiva storica: ricostruzioni teoriche e
modelli di tutela. – II. I diritti fondamentali nell’esperienza costituzionale
italiana: dallo Statuto Albertino alla Costituzione repubblicana. – III. I
diritti fondamentali nella Costituzione italiana: quadro generale. – IV. La
tutela internazionale dei diritti fondamentali.
- Parte Speciale. – V. L’interpretazione dell’art. 2 della Costituzione. – VI. Il
principio di eguaglianza
N. OCCHIOCUPO, Costituzione e Corte costituzionale. Percorsi di un
rapporto “genetico” dinamico e indissolubile, Milano, Giuffré, 2010 (the
paper "La Corte costituzionale «esigenza intrinseca» della Costituzione
repubblicana" and two other papers on the student's personal choice).


For Students of the Second cycle degree in Management in social work
the teaching material for the examination is as follow:

P. CARETTI, Diritti fondamentali. Libertà e diritti sociali, Torino,
Giappichelli, 2011, only these parts of the book:
- Parte generale. – I. La prospettiva storica: ricostruzioni teoriche e
modelli di tutela. – II. I diritti fondamentali nell’esperienza costituzionale
italiana: dallo Statuto Albertino alla Costituzione repubblicana. – III. I
diritti fondamentali nella Costituzione italiana: quadro generale. – IV. La
tutela internazionale dei diritti fondamentali. Parte Speciale. – V. L’
interpretazione dell’art. 2 della Costituzione. – VI. Il principio di
eguaglianza.
- XII. I diritti sociali
- XIII. I doveri di solidarietà politica, economica e sociale.

Teaching methods

The course will take place mainly through lessons.
In connection with the course program, seminars regarding relevant issues will be organized, also with
teachers from other Italian and foreign universities. Students will be involved in organizing these seminars and in preparing course materials.

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination. Students will be required to demonstrate that they
have acquired (a) a good knowledge of the fundamental categories related
to the conceptualization, positivization and internationalization of human
rights, (b) ability to critical analysis of regulatory models and case law for
the protection of human rights

Other information

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