MULTILEVEL CONSTITUTIONALISM

Understanding and knowledge The course aims to assess phenomena of multilevel governance in the light of the traditional interpretative categories of constitutional law. With a particular focus on the so-called “European federalizing process”, the analysis stresses the implementation of the European shared values and fundamental rights, highlighting the relationships between national and supranational institutions (Parliaments and Courts, above all). Application of gained knowledge The course consists of lectures and seminars in which students will be actively involved in order to stimulate the comprehension of the assessed phenomena of multilevel governance and federalizing processes. With this aim, they will be guided in finding and analyzing laws and case-law, also useful to be adopted as further didactic materials, integrating text books. They also might be required to write brief essays and/or give short presentations on the main topics of the course. Autonomy of judgment The course aims to foster the acquisition of the awareness of the complexity of the legal phenomenon related to the so-called “European federalizing process” and to other phenomena of multilevel governance because of the spreading of the main principles of constitutionalism beyond the State, focusing both on the relationships between national and supranational bodies and on the influence of the supranational institutions on the national ones’ functioning. Communication skills The course aims both to stimulate and to ascertain students’ acquisition of clear communication skills, particularly regarding to the ability to express themselves in appropriate constitutional terms as well as to argue from a constitutional-law perspective the rationale of the conclusions they get. Learning skills The course provides students with the learning skills needed to assess the phenomena of multilevel governance with the traditional categories of constitutional law through the development of logical skills related to legal reasoning.