The Course is divided into two parts:

a) a general part, on constitutional law
b) a part on the Constitutional Court and review of legislation

I. GENERAL PART:
1. The concept of constitution
2. Forms of state and forms of government: historical evolution of the models and current reality of the main contemporary constitutional systems. 3. The Constitution of the Italian Republic: history, structure, contents.
4. Italy and the European Union: impact on the Italian constitutional order of the EU.
5. Sources of law.
6. Electoral bodies and the institutions of political participation. 7. Constitutional bodies: Parliament (structure and functions); the President of the Republic; the Government, the Constitutional Court.
8. The role of constitutional justice in the Italian legal system: the powers of the Constitutional Court.
9. The judicial system in the Constitution: nature, structure and functions of the Superior Council of the Magistracy.
10. The Regions.
11. Constitutional rights.

II. SPECIAL SECTION: Constitutional judiciary; the sources of discipline of constitutional justice in the Italian legal system; the Constitutional Court in the system of powers; judicial review of legislation; conflicts among powers; the judgment on the admissibility of the repeal referendum; the judgment on the accusations against the President of the Republic.