Ateneo - UPO

Monographic Course: DUTIES AND RIGHTS. The course aims to reflect on the relationship between duties and rights in the history of constitutionalism, from antiquity to the present day, and within Italian Constitution.

Chiara Tripodina, L'età dei doveri. Costituzione e solidarietà, Luiss University Press, 2026

The training objective of the course is in-depth knowledge of the relationship between rights and duties in constitutional history and within the Italian constitution. Furthermore,the course aims to provide the tools for drafting and orally presenting a scientific report, or for engaging in a debate on one of the topics covered in the course

It is a prerequisite for the Advanced Constitutional Law course to have taken and passed the examination in Constitutional Law (or Institutions of Public Law).

A part of the course includes frontal teaching; lessons, but always soliciting and stimulating the dialogue and the critical analysis ability of the students in the classroom. Having provided the necessary cognitive tools, students take an active role in the second part of the course, applying the skills they have acquired by preparing and presenting a scientific report or by engaging in a debate on topics covered in the course.

Students are invited to refer to the Dir page of the course for
supplementary materiale and support of the lessons.
The teacher is always available for any further information or clarification
during the lesson or reception hours or by e mail.
Students with physical disabilities, Learning Disabilities or Special Education Needs can request specific services and tools via the Staff Sviluppo e Coordinamento Carriere e Servizi alle Studentesse e agli Studenti, consulting the University webpage: https://www.uniupo.it/en/services/servicesstudents-physical-or-learning-disabilities Students with disabilities, learning disabilities or special education needs, once they have contacted the University Staff, can refer to the tutor in charge of the course to define the examination modalities, concerning academic aspects.

Learning is verified by means of a written examination; the grade obtained is increased in the light of the writing and discussion of a scientific paper or of the debate.

- Rights and duties in the Italian Constitution; - Generations of rights; - Communitarianism vs. individualism; - History of duties; - History of constitutional rights: eighteenth century; nineteenth century; - Universal rights/cards of duties: problematic issues; - New rights: from the age of rights to the age of claims: neo-constitutionalism and the theory of rights; - Theories of constitutional interpretation and the Constitution Absolute or tolerant constitution; - The balance of rights and duties in the acts of the Constituent Assembly; - The duty of solidarity in Article 2 of the constitution and other constitutional duties; - New duties of man towards man: of present and future generations; - Duties towards Nature; - Return to duties; - How to make a scientific paper; - Seminar readings

From the point of view of KNOWLEDGE, full knowledge of the subject of the course (the relationship between duties and rights in constitutional history and in the Italian Constitution) is expected; from the point of view of COMPETENCE, the ability to critically analyse the readings recommended by the lecturer; from the point of view of SKILLS, the ability to express one's knowledge through a written text; the ability to write a scientific report, the ability to engage in a debate.