METHODOLOGY OF LEGAL COMPARISON
Models of constitutional, supranational, electoral, and environmental justice
Founded by Prof. Lucio Pegoraro in 2014
12th Edition
Director: Prof. Giorgia Pavani
REGISTRATION:
Applications are due by 9 June 2025 (23:59) and are to be submitted exclusively through the dedicated University of Bologna website: www.unibo.it/Portale/Guida/StudentiOnline
INFORMATION:
Date: 16-20 June 2025
Time: 14.30-18.30h
Venue:
Via San Petronio Vecchio - 40125 Bologna – Italia
Entry requirements:
Bachelor’s and/or Masters’ degrees (or their equivalents) in Law or Social Sciences
Language: Spanish
Registration Fee: € 270
The registration fee includes:
· On-site & online courses for those who are not able to attend the course in presence in Bologna
· Access to University of Bologna databases and bibliographical resources
· Final attendance certificate issued by the University of Bologna (100 hours, 4 ECTS)
For further information, please email sps.centrostudial@unibo.it
Official Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/centrostudiamericalatinabologna
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Summer School is organized by the Center of Latin American Studies of the University of Bologna which was founded in 2013 thanks to the academic experience of scholars of Latin American History and Comparative Public Law of the Departement of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. This is the first course which is fully dedicated to the methodology of legal comparison which is an area of interest to all professionals to whom the Summer School is dedicated. The aim of the Summer School is to deepen students’ knowledge of specific rights-guaranteeing instruments through a comparative study of legal orders and to explore the definition of models and their diffusion in national and supranational systems of rights protection. The course is addressed to lawyers (judges, attorneys, diplomatic staff and local and national government officials or employees), doctoral or master students, and public, private, and non-profit sector professionals working in the areas of public and social policy.
COURSE CONTENTS:
Module 1: Introduction to legal comparison; object, purposes and methods of comparison; classifications, models and their diffusion.
Module 2: Legal comparison in public and private law; legal families and traditions; rights and contracts in comparative perspective; circulary economy.
Module 3: Systems and models of comparative constitutional justice and procedural constitutional law; typology of constitutional judgements; conventionality control.
Module 4: Sustainable development, enviromental and ecological law in comparative perspective; environmental and climate justice; the human right to a healthy environment, Rights of Nature and the right to a stable climate.
Module 5: Models of territorial decentralization; federalism, regionalism and plurinationality; integration of national and supranational levels of government; European Union.
FACULTY:
Silvia Bagni (University of Bologna, Italy)
Michele Carducci (University of Salento, Italy)
Giovanni Figueroa Mejía (IBERO University, Mexico)
Marco Navas Alvear (Simon Bolivar Andean University, Ecuador)
Matteo Nicolini (University of Verona, Italy)
Giorgia Pavani (University of Bologna, Italy)
Lucio Pegoraro (University of Bologna, Italy)
Sabrina Ragone (University of Bologna, Italy)
Guido Smorto (University of Palermo, Italy)