Course Details

Intercultural law

LE0428

Course
Intercultural law
Code
LE0428
Academic Year
2025/2026
Curriculum Year
2024/2025
Degree Programme
MODERN, CLASSIC AND COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY
Curriculum
000 - 000-GENERICO
Course coordinator
Lecturers
Credits
6
Lecture Hours
30
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
IUS/11 - Canon and Ecclesiastic Law
Course Type
Single-subject learning activity
Course Delivery
OBB - Obbligatoria
Year
2
Teaching period
Primo Semestre
Campus
ALESSANDRIA
Teaching language
Italian
Course Contents
The course will touch on the main juridical problems about the religious and cultural pluralism as in Italy as in Europe: 1) Citizenship, denominational affiliation and immigration; 2) Models of personal status (marriage; adoption; children's rights, etc.) between the two banks of the Mediterranean; 3) Freedom of expression and religious pluralism; hate speech; anti-Semitism and Islamophobia; 4) Democracy and the right to identity (religious and cultural symbols in the scholastic and employment law field); 5) National law in a comparative key and international and EU law concerning relations between states and religious organizations. 6) Influence the religions in the international geopolitics context
Reference Texts
For those not attending: Ilenia Ruggiu, Il giudice antropologo. Costituzione e tecniche di composizione dei conflitti multiculturali, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2019, pp. 394 For those attending the material for the exam will be indicated during the course
Learning Outcomes
Reflect on the values
(i) human dignity and human rights; (ii) cultural diversity; (ii) democracy; (iv) justice; (v) equity; (vi) equality
and the primacy of law.
Acquire knowledge and understanding of:
(i) self-criticism
(ii) criticism of
language and communication
(iv) criticism of the
world: politics, law, human rights, culture
and cultures, religions, history, media, economics,
environment, sustainable development
Prerequisites
none
Teaching Methods
The course is organized in lectures. There is an obligation to attend at least 2/3 of the lessons in order to acquire the status of a student and to have a specific examination program. The course material will be transmitted in advance of the lecture to the participants via the DIR platform so that there can be a dialogue-based discussion in the classroom on the case law cases examined or the documents related to the lecture block. The course will be supported by multimedia tools (DVD, YouTube, Skype) and will make use of the expertise of external lecturers on site or via Skype. Some lessons may be held in a foreign language.
Additional Information
Si tiene conto delle esigenze degli studenti con bisogni educativi speciali (BES) o con disturbi specifici dell'apprendimento (DSA).
Assessment Methods
The verification of the learning in part will take place in the classroom during the entire duration of the course through the assessment of the degree of active participation of the students in the discussion on the topics introduced and developed in the "front" part of the course. A second test will be carried out at the end of the course through an oral interview for students not frequently and wrote test for the frequently one that will have to verify three skills: i) knowledge of the problems, of the sources of law, of the jurisprudence and of the legal institutions examined during the course; ii) properties of language and legal reasoning; iii) ability to analyze a sentence; iv) ability to apply standards and institutions in practice by solving a practical case.
Detailed Syllabus
The course will follow a path/travel through stories marked by case law or historical/political events.
Each case will correspond to a key word around which the lesson will be built

1) Credibility. How to tell and how to listen to a story in order to obtain refugee status

2) Mediation. What techniques to adopt in a public space to ensure cultural and religious pluralism

3) Disguise. Whether or not it is right to hide or pretend to be something else. Is it integration or discrimination?

4) Teaching. What and how to teach in times of cultural pluralism

5) Land. Land as a factor of contention and conflict

6) Remoteness. Children, detachment and migration flows

7) Identity. The right to be oneself when one is a minority

Seminar part

Anti-discrimination law
Expected Learning Outcomes
1) Knowledge of the main issues of plural societies and influeces of religiuo actors in the intedrnational politics 2) Knowledge of the fundamentals of conflict mediation techniques in multicultural societies 3) Pedagogically have at least perceived, even if not fully assimilated, the transversal competences necessary in plural societies
Last update:09-09-2026 00:14:31