Università Roma Tre

The course will address the more general issues concerning administrative activity and administrative organization with a look at new trends in the field, both in the context of European law and with regard to the use of new technologies. A part of the course will be dedicated to a topic of specific interest for the Degree Course, namely the legal protection of animals. More specifically, the following topics will be addressed:


- Public administration and its law;
- the principles of administrative law;
- the administrative organization;
- administrative activity in general;
- subjective juridical situations;
- the administrative procedure;
- the administrative act;
- accountability;
- administrative transparency;
- the simplification of the administrative procedure;
- the legal protection of animals between national and European law.

M. D’alberti, Lezioni di diritto amministrativo, last available edition (except the Chapters dedicated to: personale delle pubbliche amministrazioni, beni pubblici, moduli consensuali; responsabilità della pubblica amministrazione; disfunzioni).
M. A. Sandulli, Introduzione. La complessità delle fonti, le tendenze del sistema e il ruolo dei principi nel diritto ammnistrativo, in Principi e regole dell’azione amministrativa, a cura di M.A. Sandulli, Milano, 2023 .
Article. M. Lottini, Il benessere degli animali e il diritto dell’Unione Europea, in “Cultura e Diritti”, 1/2, 2018, p. 11;
Article. M. Lottini, La tutela degli animali in Costituzione: riflessioni e prospettive, in CERIDAP, 2022;
C. Campanaro e M Falvo (edited by), Norme di diritto penale ed amministrativo a tutela degli animali, from page 4 to page 17; from 32 to 66; from 87 to 96; from 111 to 149; from 329 to 337

The articles and the handout are made available on-line (moodle). In case of problems in finding materials, please send an e-mail to Professor Lottini at her institutional address.