Given the different educational backgrounds students normally come from, not
always including some legal training, no particular prerequisite is required.

This course aims at getting students more acquainted with the current most
significant issues related to constitutional law in comparative
perspective relying both on legal literature and case-law from many courts around
the world. In particular, it will be focused on the acknowledgement and protection of
fundamental human rights, the doctrines behind the idea of human rights and the
possible juxtaposition between civil and social rights, the principles of dignity and
privacy, and the arguments to which courts refer to underpin their rulings in these
matters.

The ultimate goal of the course is to let students familiarize with different approaches
and methods justices apply in various constitutional settings to tackle highly
controversial and dilemmatic issues, to discuss why they find them legally persuasive
or not, and to develop their own critical understanding of the concepts and methods
used by courts.

This course aims at getting students more acquainted with the current most
significant issues related to constitutional law in comparative
perspective relying both on legal literature and case-law from many courts around
the world (European Court of Human Rights - ECtHR, U.S. and Canadian Supreme
Court, UK Supreme Court, German Bundesverfassungsgericht, Supreme Court of
India, South African Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Israel, Constitutional
Court of Colombia, just to mention some).

In particular, it will be focused on the acknowledgement and protection of
fundamental rights, the doctrines behind the idea of human rights and the possible
juxtaposition between civil and social rights, the principles of dignity and privacy and
how they inform some problematic rights claims (i.e. abortion, «right to die», right to
food...) and the arguments to which courts refer to underpin their rulings in these
matters.

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Materials will be made available during classes by uploading them on the teacher's website. Students are required to read in advance the materials suggested for any given class.

• Every week, students are required to read the materials uploaded in advance on the
  teacher's webpage before getting in class.
  
  Classes will involve students in discussions about the topics dealt with in the course.
  Didactics in this course is very direct, informal, and interactive.
  
  All the activities organised in class aim at exploring the intricacies and technicalities
  of the protection of human rights through constitutional adjudication and at helping
  the students develop their own critical and argumentative skills in legal terms.

• This course applies a method of continuous evaluation: in fact, attendees are
  assessed while developing their critical understanding of comparative constitutional
  law issues and proposing their arguments on cases.
  
  The final exam will consist of two parts: a paper to be delivered to the teacher a few
  days in advance of the exam session for which the student is signed up in response
  to a given topic (the entire calendar of deadlines will be available on the teacher's
  webpage). This paper is aimed at giving students some time to put together their
  thoughts in a creative and analytical way, instead of concentrating on a written test
  on the exam day.
  
  The second part of the exam will be an oral discussion of the paper each student
  delivered.
  
  The materials uploaded and used in class constitute the program also for non
  attendees. They will take the exam through a written text, with open questions, on
  the day of the exam, followed by an oral interview.

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