A) for attending students the Text book will be T. Groppi, A. Simoncini Introduzione allo studio del diritto pubblico e delle sue fonti, Giappichelli, 2020, V ed.;
B) for non-attending students, free choice between:
- P. Caretti, U. De Siervo, Diritto costituzionale e pubblico, Giappichelli, 2020, IV ed.
- P. Barile, E. Cheli, S. Grassi, Istituzioni di diritto pubblico, Wolters Kluwer, 2018, XVI ed.
- A. Barbera, C. Fusaro, Corso di diritto pubblico, il Mulino, 2020, XI ed.
Learning Objectives
The course aims to introduce the attending students of Social Work to the basic knowledge and fundamental methodologies related to the arrangement of public law within the social workers operate.
The course sets the following learning objectives:
- learning a methodology for studying legal issues;
- acquiring legal instruments to understand the legal system within the social workers operate and to better understand the current political and institutional topics;
- introduction to technical legal language;
- development of a basic skill with legal reasoning and argumentation.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
According to the rules established by Government and University of Florence, in a.a. 2020/2021, lessons will be held by blended teaching, with face-to-face lessons and, at the same time, via streaming through Webex, with the possibility to interact with the teacher during the lesson. All material will be uploaded on Moodle course website (e-l.unifi.it), and even the registration of the single lesson will be made available, but only for a short time. In some cases lessons will be held by other guests and experts of specific issues.
Further information
For this academic year, students will result attendant participating to lessons face to face, or to lessons broadcasted in streaming, or to lessons recorded.
Consequently, students are expected to attend at all the classes.
Type of Assessment
- Oral examination.
The oral examination consists of a plurality of questions (3-5).
The questions focus on the different parts of the program and, for attending students, of the lessons.
A part of the questions has a general character, so as to allow the student to demonstrate not only the acquired knowledge but also the ability to make connections between the various parts of the program.
Another part of the questions is more precise and concerns a specific topic.
The students are required to use an appropriate juridical language, to demonstrate capability of reasoning, to demonstrate the capability of employing the legal instruments to comprehend and problematize the topical issues.
The evaluation is sufficient if all the answers are sufficient and if, overall, no serious gaps or gross errors emerge. The evaluation varies from good to excellent if all the answers are exhaustive and demonstrate critical analysis skills and language properties.
- (Optional only for attending students) written self-assessment test on December 2021 (with closed-ended and open-ended questions). In case of positive outcome the student will take a shorter oral exam (1 answer around) [for this modality contact the professor]
Course program
Law, State, constitution - Forms of State and forms of government - Italian Constitution of 1948 - Parliament - President of Republic - National Government - Public administration - Sources of law - Fundamental rights - Judicial guarantees - Constitutional justice - International law - European Union Law - Regional and local autonomies.