Università Roma Tre

GENERAL PART
The creation of law - Sources of law - Constitution, ordinary laws and other sources of law - Fundamental Rights - Constitutional justice –Constitutional Court: composition, the judgment concerning constitutional legitimacy, conflicts arising over the allocation of powers, charges against the President of the Republic, admissibility of referendums.

SPECIAL PART
The interpretation in conformity with the Constitution: the role of the Constitutional Court and the other courts in “doing constitutional justice” for a better protection of rights.

- M. RUOTOLO, Corso di diritto costituzionale. Fonti, diritti, giustizia costituzionale, Giappichelli, Torino, 2022.
- M. RUOTOLO, Interpretare. Nel segno della Costituzione, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, LATEST EDITION.

Other program:
- S.M. CICCONETTI, Le fonti del diritto italiano, quarta edizione, Giappichelli, Torino, 2019, except these paragraphs: CAP. 1, 1-4; CAP. 9, 4-5.
- F. MODUGNO (a cura di), Diritto pubblico, quarta edizione, Giappichelli, Torino, 2019 (being published), just chapter 12. Students who already have it can use the third edition, published in 2017.
- M. RUOTOLO, Interpretare. Nel segno della Costituzione, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, LATEST EDITION.
The students are also asked to study the Constitution and the most significant laws on constitutional issues. The Constitution and the above mentioned laws can be downloaded from the Italian institutions’ websites (e.g. www.cortecostituzionale.it; www.parlamento.it ).
The knowledge of Public Law course’s contents is required.