CODE 45335 ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 3 GIURISPRUDENZA 7995 (LMG/01) - 6 cfu anno 4 GIURISPRUDENZA 7995 (LMG/01) - 6 cfu anno 5 GIURISPRUDENZA 7995 (LMG/01) - SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR IUS/20 LANGUAGE Italiano (Spagnolo a richiesta) TEACHING LOCATION MODULES Questo insegnamento è composto da: THE DISTRIBUTIVE POLICIES THEORIES OF JUSTICE IN CONTEMPORARY LEGAL POLITICAL CULTURE TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES Theories of justice mod. 1: Some theories of justice in contemporary legal-political culture. Definitions of “justice”, principles and moral values assumed as justification criteria of social and legal order. mod. 2: Distributive policies Law as system of resources - and particularly rights - allocation; the relationship between law and market. TEACHING METHODS Frontal lessons SYLLABUS/CONTENT The course has the following topics: the analysis of some fundamental concepts of political philosophy; the study of the main contemporary theories of distributive justice, with specific reference to ones which have, as a subject matter, legal systems and public institutions. Index: 1. Methodological premises 2. Morals, politics and law 3. Private and public ethics 4. Normative ethics and meta-ethics 5. Concept and conceptions of justice 6. Distributive justice 7. Contractualism, libertarianism and utilitarianism 8. Rawls’s contractualism 9. Nozick’s libertarianism 10. Harsanyi’s utilitarianism 11. Gender studies and feminism 12. Communitarianism and criticism to liberal theories 13. The current debate on cultural rights 14. Will Kymlicka’s liberal communitarianism RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY Reference book for attending students: P. Comanducci, Contrattualismo, utilitarismo, garanzie, pp. 272 (available on AulaWeb) Reference book for not attending students: E. Garzón Valdés, Tolleranza, responsabilità e Stato di diritto. Saggi di filosofia morale e politica, ed. by P. Comanducci and T. Mazzarese, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2003, pp. 400 TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD PAOLO COMANDUCCI Ricevimento: The students can ask for an appointment writing to comanducci@unige.it Exam Board PAOLO COMANDUCCI (President) ISABEL FANLO CORTES GIOVANNI BATTISTA RATTI MARIA CRISTINA REDONDO NATELLA LESSONS Class schedule THEORIES OF JUSTICE EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION Oral examination ASSESSMENT METHODS It is request to attending students, whose learning level is also verified in the classroom, that they understand and memorise the contents presented by the teacher, and develop autonomous argumentation about ethical and meta-ethical questions treated in the lessons. It is request to not attending students that they understand and memorise the main conceptual and normative questions treated in the reference book, and express them properly. Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note Subject 22/05/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 06/06/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 19/06/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 10/07/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 13/09/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 22/05/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 06/06/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 19/06/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 10/07/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 13/09/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale