Objectives: The course aims to provide the basic knowledge on the subject of public law, with particular reference to the freedoms and constitutional rights, the organization of the Italian state and the activity of public administration, as well as, to the welfare system. At the end of the course students will therefore have to demonstrate knowledge of the essential constitutional organization of the state and of the administrative apparatus features, the complex system of freedom and constitutional rights, the peculiarities of relations between public and private, as well as, the essential characteristics the health service and the organization of social services.