Corso di laurea magistrale in Filosofia

Human Rights Culture in the European Union

Human Rights Culture in the European Union

Anno accademico 2019/2020

Sommario insegnamento

• Obiettivi formativi
• Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
• Modalità di insegnamento
• Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
• Programma
• Testi consigliati e bibliografia
• Note
• Strumenti didattici

Obiettivi formativi

Human Rights Culture in the European Union (HRC-EU) is a Jean Monnet Module directed by Adj. Prof. Angela Condello. The course aims at enhancing the knowledge of legal theory basic questions applied to European policies – especially among students of humanities by means of the analysis of what can be defined a "European human rights culture". The course is also open to students of other disciplines and aims to build an interdisciplinary class.

The course is promoted by Erasmus + programs within the Jean Monnet Modules.
European 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.

Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

The evaluation will be based on written exam. 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 discussed 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.

Modalità di insegnamento

Lectures, 36 hours (6 CFU).

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

Written exam: 3 open questions (choice among 6 questions).

Programma

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
James Boyd White, The Legal Imagination, Little, Brown & Co., 1973
Austin Sarat, Matthew Anderson, Cathrine O. Frank, Law and the Humanities: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2009
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, Benedetta Rinaldi Ferri, Umanità come percorso individuativo. Diritto, esperienza, differenza, in Anna Simone, Ilaria Boiano (Eds.), 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.

Note

The course, the activities and the exam are all in English.

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