Corso di laurea magistrale in Filosofia

Human Rights Culture in the European Union (HRC-EU) is a Jean Monnet Module directed by Prof. Angela Condello. The course aims at enhancing the knowledge of European policies among students of humanities by means of the analysis of what can be defined a "European human rights culture". Europe is undoutebly going through processes that are challenging its juridical, political, and cultural identities: multi-level governance, migration fluxes, legal pluralism and clashes of legal cultures. Identifying a common space of construction of a European human rights culture is thus of crucial importance in order to understand and confront the contemporary socio-cultural transformations also among students of the humanities and not only among law students and researchers.

The evaluation will be based on an oral discussion. The exam will be centered on the understanding of key notions and theses and on a critical analysis of the main themes developed during the course. The instructor will assess students' argumentative abilities and the depth of the theoretical understanding. 

Students will have to demonstrate:
- a deep knowledge of the themes and of the questions illustated during the course;
- analytical and argumentative abilities in the discussion;
- the capacity to integrate different philosophical and juridical notions;
- the capacity to manage the new notions concrening the themes discussed during the course.

Lessons, 36 hours (6 CFU). The evaluation will be based on an oral discussion.

Written exam: two open questions (choice among seven or eight questions).

SESSION 1

Introduction to the Course: the Jean Monnet Module

Experimental class

Interdisciplinary studies on law

Law and Philosophy

BIBLIOGRAPHY

J. B. White, The Legal Imagination, 1973

S. Delacroix, Legal Norms and Normativity. An Essay in Genealogy, 2006

 

SESSION 2

Exemplary cases and abstract norms: the force of the example

Legal culture through conflict

Critical perspectives on human rights policies in the EU

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Ferrara, The Force of the Example, 2008

G. Azzariti, Diritto e conflitti, 2010

C. Douzinas, The end of human rights, 2000

M. Ferraris, Documentality. Why it is necessary to leave traces, 2012

M. C. Nussbaum, Creating Capabilities. The Human Development Approach, 2011

 

SESSION 3

Generality, singularity, exemplarity

Universalism v. relativism

BIBLIOGRAPHY

C. Douzinas and C. Gearty, The Meaning of Rights, 2014

 

SESSION 4 

Some exemplary legal realms: gender, labour

The contrast between demos and ethnos

BIBLIOGRAPHY

T. Pitch, I diritti fondamentali: differenze culturali, disuguaglianze sociali, differenza sessuale, 2004

J.L. Nancy, On Human Rights: Two Simple Remarks, 2013

 

SESSION 5

Positive law and extra-legal values: law and morality 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

J. Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, 1894

J. Habermas, Between Facts and Norms, 1996

A. Ferrara, The Force of the Example, 2008

G. Azzariti, Diritto e conflitti, 2010

 

SESSION 6

Workshop on the film/documentary Coeurope, G. Troilo,2016

In collaboration with Rai DOC3

Sylvie Delacroix, Legal Norms and Normativity. An Essay in Genealogy, Hart, 2006.

Alessandro Ferrara, The Force of the Example. Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgement, Columbia University Press, 2008.

Costas Douzinas, The End of Human Rights. Critical Legal Thought at the Turn of the Century, Hart, 2000.

Angela Condello and Benedetta Rinaldi Ferri, Umanità come percorso individuativo. Diritto, esperienza, differenza, in A. Simone - I.Boiano, Femminismo ed esperienza giuridica. Pratiche, Argomentazione, Interpretazione, Efesto, 2018.

Th students will be given papers, extracts and other materials concerning Azzariti, Habermas and Alexy, in addition to the texts of the ECJ and ECHR decisions that will be discussed in class.

At the end of the course there will be a workshop on RAI's documentary Coeurope by Giovanni Troilo.