Prof. Robert Schuetze

Argomenti del programma: The following topics will be covered through the course: 1. Methodology and legal families 2. Varieties of constitutionalism, forms of state and form of government - Historical evolution of constitutionalism and constitutionalism in context - Transformative constitutionalism, Islamic constitutionalism, socialist Constitutionalism, the Global South - Models of horizontal separation of powers 3.

• The textbook will be supplemented by slides and other reading material indicated at the beginning of the course.

Argomenti del programma: The History of European Integration. The European Union. The EU Institutional architecture. The EU Legal order: Primary law and Legislative acts. The EU General Principles and the Protection of Fundamental Rights. The Enforcement of EU Law in the domestic legal order (Supremacy of EU Law; direct and indirect effects).