Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

the course offers to future legal experts a knowledge and extensive coverage about the role of modern and contemporary constitutions, defining fundamental rights and freedoms of the human person, as well as the process of birth of the modern State.
The course will focus on main constitutional models of civil law and common law, from end of XVIII century, the Revolutions season, to XX century, until after the Second World War time.
For each model the course will underline the origins, the fundamental principles, the connection and/or break, in comparison to the contemporary documents, analyzing both exegesis of texts and main doctrinal theories.
The students will acquire the historical-law terminology, necessary for understanding the recent constitutional experiences, especially the European Union, which opens to new questions and “frontiers” with reference to the “Constitution” and national sovereignty.