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Fundamental rights in Europe
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Anno accademico 2012/2013
- Docenti
- Dott. Mia Caielli (Titolare del corso)
Prof. Joerg Luther (Titolare del corso) - Corso di studi
- Laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Giurisprudenza - a Torino (D.M. 270/2004) [f004-c501]
Laurea magistrale in Studi giuridici europei (D.M. 270/2004) [f004-c503] - Anno
- 1° anno 2° anno
- Tipologia
- A scelta dello studente
- Crediti/Valenza
- 6
- SSD dell'attività didattica
- IUS/08 - diritto costituzionale
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Sommario insegnamento
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Obiettivi formativi
Fundamental Rights in Europe is a key argument of the Europeanization and Globalization of institutions of public law at all levels of government that requests specific legal knowledge and methodology. The theories and practices of Fundamental Rights have to be analysed in order to enable students
- to discuss and implement the various legal philosophies and cultures feeding the controversies on fundamental rights in an open society,
- to analyse the questions of general theory of the law relted to fundamental rights in Europe,
- to make systematic interpretation of the various sources of law regarding fundamental rights,
- to apply all tools offered by jurisdictional, administrative and political guarantees, including human rights watching, within the various legal orders operating in Europe- Oggetto:
Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
By the end of the course students should have an overall awareness of the multilevel protection of human rights in Europe and should be able to prospect and argue solutions for specific fundamental rights cases.
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Programma
The course consists of 2 modules of 20 hours each:
1st Module – Prof. J. Luther
The first module gives an introduction in concept and history, theories and sources of the Law of the Fundamental Rights in the European States and the European Union. The practice of Fundamental Rights Watching and the specific remedies for Fundamental Rights protection in National Constitutional Courts and in the European Courts of justice and of Human Rights will be highlighted. Specific new questions of freedoms, social and cultural rights and political questions will be faced.
2nd Module – Dott.ssa M. Caielli
This module is focused on equality law in Europe. Particular attention will be paid to recent developments in the protection of the right to non discrimination on the basis of gender, race, religion, age, disability and sexual orientation both at the national and supranational level. Such right will be examined in the light of most significant domestic constitutional case law as well as through European Court of Human Rights and European Court of Justice leading cases.Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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- All Students:
M. Caielli / J. Luther, Sources of the Law of Fundamentl Rights, 2nd edition Turin 2013
(electronical resource)
- Students attending classes:
The relevant reading materials in foreign languages will be provided at the beginning of classes.
- Students not attending classes:1st Module:
At free choice 200 pages of one or more of the following books or other previously agreed essays or books:
1) R. Alexy, A Theory of Constitutional Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
2) L. Favoreu et al., Droit des libertés fondamentales, Paris: Dalloz, 5ème ed. 2009 (Partie 3)
3) D. Ehlers (eds.), Europaeische Grundrechte und Grundfreiheiten, Berlin: De Gruyter, 3a ed. 2009 - transl. European Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, deGruyter, 2007.
4) C. Tomuschat, Human Rights Between Idealism and Realism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 2008
2nd Module:1) D. Schiek, L. Waddington, M. Bell, Non - discrimination Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2007, pp. 1-32
2) C. Danisi, How far can the European Court of Human Rights go in the fight against discrimination? Defining new standards in its nondiscrimination jurisprudence, in International Journal of Constitutional Law (2011), 9, (3-4): 793-807.
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Note
Oral exam has to be given in English.
Final exam for attending students may consist of a short written comment on a Court's decision either in English.- Oggetto: