The course will be structured in lectures, guest seminars and the discussion of case-studies.
Schedule:
Monday 12:30 – 14:15 Room 420 Via Festa del Perdono 7 Tuesday 8:30 – 10:15 Room 4 Via Sant’Antonio 5
Starting date: February 24th2020.
Syllabus:
- Social Rights: definition and theoretical foundation
- Social Rights as Human Rights and Constitutional Rights
- Social Rights Protection in comparative perspective (US; EU; Latin America; South Africa)
- Social rights protection in time of economic crisis
- The role of courts (national and supranational) in adjudicating social rights
- Case study: economic crisis and health care
- Case study: economic crisis and social benefits
- Rule of law and democratic crises in the EU: an introduction
- Populism, inequality and social rights
- EU citizenship and social rights
- EU social rights protection and third countries’ nationals
- Social rights protection for Asylum Seekers and refugees
- Social rights and conditionality
- Social rights and the internal market: conflict or harmony?
- The crisis of Welfare State in Europe
- The EU social pillar: paradigm shift or much ado about nothing?
- The crisis of the Welfare state in Europe: which way forward?
For any other information, see the ARIEL page of the course.