FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: HISTORY, POLICIES, PROTECTION
DIRITTI FONDAMENTALI: STORIA, TEORIA E POLITICHE
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| 2025/2026 | 6 |
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| Domenico Scalzo | Office hours for students will be indicated at beginning of the corse |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
French
German
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course has the following educational objectives: orient yourself in a theoretical research environment and be familiar with emerging concepts. That means understanding the phenomena of politics and law, war and peace, power of nort and power; power and will; identify the connection between politics and law, between law and war, develop a first theoretical attempt in the direction of an idea of politics and another use of law that keep behind the effectuality of the questioned matter, i.e. the human rights crisis and trasformation.
The course aims to provide the student with a critical knowledge of the idea of fundamental rights, as well as the essential instruments in order to embrace the theoretical concepts of main phenomena concerning human rights and paece in contemporary society. The privileged perspective is the relation between war and peace .
Program
The course takes place through a series of frontal lessons.
The topic is war and peace in the hystory.
Below some keywords that will be discussed during lessons:
war and law
peace and war
Bridging Courses
nothing
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
Lessons will be frontal and remote at the same time
General seminars on "Political Europe and war" and "Art, peace and Politics" are planned.
Dates and modalities will be communicated during lectures.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
It will be considered as attending students the ones who will attend the 75/100 of the classes.
Attending students will be asked to be active part during lessons.
They will be given the opportunity to consider part of the program as optional, thanks to the work done during classes, with a choice between the exam texts, as shown below.
The choice has to be done at the end of the lessons.
A text of your choice between the following two. It is recommended to make the choice at the end of the course
- Attendance
It will be considered as attending students the ones who will attend the 75/100 of the classes.
Attending students will be asked to be active part during lessons.
- Course books
Norberto Bobbio, Il problema della guerra e le vie della pace, il Mulino, Bologna 1979 ( e seguenti)
Giorgio Agamben, Stasis, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2019
Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
Alessandro Colombo, Il suicidio della pace, Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2025;
Frédéric Gros, Perché la guerra, Nottetempo, Milano 2023
Norberto Bobbio, L'età dei diritti, Einaudi, Torino
G. Agamben, Homo sacer, Einaudi, Torino 1995.
- Assessment
oral exam
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
A weekly update of the topics covered in class on the Moodle platform will be provided for the students attending the course.
- Attendance
The programm is whole. There is not the choise between the two books us for the attending students
- Course books
Texts of exam:
Testi di esame:
Norberto Bobbio, Il problema della guerra e le vie della pace, il Mulino, Bologna 1979 ( e seguenti)
Giorgio Agamben, Stasis, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2019
Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
Alessandro Colombo, Il suicidio della pace, Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2025;
Frédéric Gros, Perché la guerra, Nottetempo, Milano 2023
Norberto Bobbio, L'età dei diritti, Einaudi, Torino
G. Agamben, Homo sacer, Einaudi, Torino 1995.
- Assessment
oral exam
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Notes
Two seminars on the politics, labour in Europe and on Arts, work and politics
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