Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

COMPARATIVE LAW IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

Comparative Law in a Global Context

Anno accademico 2024/2025

Sommario insegnamento

• Obiettivi formativi
• Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
• Programma
• Modalità di insegnamento
• Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
• Attività di supporto
• Note
• Strumenti didattici
• Scheda del corso

Obiettivi formativi

The course contributes to the realization of the study curriculum by enabling students to understand the impact of the legal dimension of current global issues on international cooperation and the interaction of different kinds of rules at different levels in order to provide them with basic skills to be applied in different contexts and for different purposes. The course will also serve as a short introduction to main features of the legal systems in Africa, Asia and America, which will be analysed in the second year.

Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

Students should achieve a good knowledge, critical understanding and ability to deal with:

- the interaction of different kinds of law at the global and local level

- the main features of contemporary legal systems and the dynamics of legal transplants

- legal diversity

- factors to be taken into account in order to analyse law in context

- basic issues and perspectives regarding the protection of fundamental rights

- basic issues and perspectives regarding the role of law in development

Programma

The course will focus on the interaction between different legal orders at the international, national and local level, by analysing the following topics:

- Methodological issues of comparative law

- Legal families and legal transplants

- Theories of legal pluralism

- State, Society, Religion/Philosophies in the making of law

- Protection of fundamental rights: global and local perspectives

- Law and development: global and local perspectives

Modalità di insegnamento

Lectures with the support of powerpoint presentations and, on some topics, of short videos. Discussion of specific cases. 

Students are  advised to enrol in the course on the Moodle platform (link at the bottom of this page) in order to have full access to materials and further information about the course. 

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

For students regularly taking part in the course:

Written exam

The exam consists of multiple choice questions on topics discussed in class and on the studying materials uploaded on Moodle.

This test can be taken only at the exam session of mid-December 2024 or at the first exam session of January 2025.

For students not regularly taking part in the course:

Written exam - open question exam.

The textbook for non-attending students is the following:

S. Ragone, G. Smorto, Comparative Law. A very short introduction, OUP, 2023.

The assessment will  focus particularly on the capacity to use fundamental concepts of comparative law, to deal with the topic in a coherent and effective way, and to analyse the issues in a critical and personal way.

For all AGIC students, the grade of the course in Comparative Law in a Global Context is  worth 1/3 of the overall grade of the exam of International and Comparative Law: Global Perspectives and is combined with the grade of the course in International Economic Law (2/3).

Attività di supporto

Individual or group meetings for tutoring on basic legal concepts. In order to arrange a meeting students should write to sabrina.praduroux@unito.it

Note

Attendance is not compulsory but strongly recommended. Materials of the course and other resources are available on Moodle (link at the bottom of this page).

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