Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"

The course will provide an introduction to the difference between legal systems and legal orders. The legal systems are generally based on one of three basic systems: civil law, common law, and religious law – or combinations of these. However, the legal system of each country is shaped by its unique history and so incorporates individual variations.
To understand the interactions between the legal systems and the infra relations between legal systems and legal orders, history of law and comparative law are necessary. History of law is the study of roots and principles that have shaped the contemporary legal orders and help to understand how legal systems could be recognized. Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between different countries. More specifically, it involves study of the different legal orders and systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law. From an historical point of view enormous importance has the Roman law as foundation of the civilian tradition and bases of modern civil codes. In the most recent times the process of the European integration and of making uniform European legal system largely renewed the interest in ius commune as a predecessor of this process in itself, whereby Roman legal tradition, as a common denominator of the European legal culture, became an important factor in the formation of contemporary European identity.

R. Zimmermann, Roman Law, Contemporary Law, European Law. The Civilian Tradition Today, Oxford, 2001 (selected chapters).

1. Nation-State: origins and transformations
2. Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern
3. English Constitutionalism and the Glorious Revolution
4. English Constitutionalism: Transformations
5. American Constitutionalism: The Revolution
6. American Constitutionalism: The Constitution
7. American Constitutionalism: The Judicial Review
8. American Constitutionalism: Foundations (1789-1905)
9. American Constitutionalism: Transformations (1929-2014)
10. Constitutionalism and the French Revolution
11. French Constitutionalism and the 5th Republic
12. Italian Constitutionalism: From the Statute of 1848 to the Republic
13. Italian Constitutionalism: The Constitution of 1947
14. German Constitutionalism: Weimar Constitution and its crisis
15. German Constitutionalism: The Basic Law of 1949
16. Constitutionalism in the World: Latin America, Africa and Asia
17. European Constitutionalism and Supranational Laws: An Introduction
18. The Genesis of Supranational Laws: the Common Roots
19. The Evolution of Supranational Laws: the Different Paths of the European Courts before the Enlargement of Europe to the East
20. The Court of Justice of the European Union and the Enlargement of Europe to the East
21. The European Court of Human Rights and the Enlargement of Europe to the East
22. The Dialogue Between the Constitutional Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union
23. The Dialogue between the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights
24. The next step: the Adhesion of the European Union to the European Convention of Human Rights



The course will provide an introduction to the difference between legal systems and legal orders. The legal systems are generally based on one of three basic systems: civil law, common law, and religious law – or combinations of these. However, the legal system of each country is shaped by its unique history and so incorporates individual variations

Introductions: Why West Africa: Legal Systems & Institution, thoughts about West Africa, history, people & cultures.
Indigenous, traditional, cultural, religious and legal institutions: what are the relationships, if any between the indigenous system and the ‘secular’ or colonial systems?
The ‘Civil Law System’ Algeria (The Algerian legal system is based on French and Islamic law)
Benin (based on French civil law and customary law)- Burkina Faso (based on the French civil law system and customary law) -- Guinea (Based on French civil law system, customary law, and decree)- Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese Civil law system; the Constitutional Tribunal reviews the constitutionality of legislation)- Ivory Coast (French civil law system, customary law and judicial review)
Mali (derives from French civil law and customary law, and provides for judicial review of legislative acts in a Constitutional Court) -- Mauritania (A combination of Sharia ‘Islamic law’ and French civil law)-- Morocco (Based on Islamic law and French and Spanish civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts) -- Senegal (based on French civil law system and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts in Constitutional Court), Togo (based on French civil law and local customary law), Tunisia (based on French civil law system and Islamic)-- Western Sahara (French civil law system and customary law)
Documentary on global legal systems
The Common Law System: Gambia (Legal system based on English common law, Islamic law, and customary law and the Portuguese laws) -- Ghana (received Anglo-Saxon common law, statutory law, and other documents.)-- Liberia (Dual system of statutory law based on Anglo-American common law for the modern sector and customary)-- Nigeria (Based on English common law, Islamic Sharia law, Customary and Traditional Laws)-- Sierra Leone (Based on English law and customary laws indigenous to local tribes)
Islamic Legal System: Rule of law, equity and democratization How law will drive change in societies, through structures and institutions such as investment in infrastructures, education, health and the economy-- Free Trade vs. Aids? Comparative legal systems -- basic structure of two major legal systems in the modern Western world: the civil law tradition and the common law tradition. Each of these systems will be reviewed in terms of its history, culture, legal structures, legal actors and their roles, sources of law and judicial process -- similarities and differences between these systems and the Italian legal system -- widen perspective to better understand, appreciate, and function within our legal system
Human Rights.

Do religious and cultural rights have priority over basic human rights, as argued by some African nations? Which comes first? What human rights statements have precedence over others? Religious and cultural rights have priority over traditional definitions of human rights, how are the benefits of human rights realized? Are human rights universal or are they culturally relative and applicable only under certain cultural environments? Are human rights the product of the period of Western enlightenment or are there universal human rights? How can the issue of cultural relativism be resolved so that the conflict over the legal practices of other cultures that violate human rights declarations and covenants be resolved? Can the issue of cultural relativism be resolved so that respect for other cultures does not result in sanctioning of practices seen as harmful?


Rethinking Human Rights: What do lawyers have to contribute to the debate on human rights? In what ways are lawyers and human rights mutually relevant? What recommendations can be made to contribute to the further development of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as other declarations and protocols? Do the various protocols and documents on human rights reflect principles based upon knowledge of this African region? Should human rights standards be imposed from outside or should the focus be on helping local interest groups within a society or country work for their development? Under what conditions is one or the other approach most effective? What are the directions in which the definition of human right should evolve? What institutions might replace nation state and its role in human rights? What are the frontiers for future legal research, teaching, and practice of human rights?

- T. Ginsburg – R. Dixon, Comparative Constitutional Law, Elgar Publ., 2011, (selected Chapters);
- A.R. Amar, America’s Constitution. A Biography, Random House, 2005, (selected Chapters);
- G. Martinico – O. Pollicino, The Interaction between Europe’s Legal Systems, Elgar Publ., 2012 (selected Chapters);
R. Zimmermann, Roman Law, Contemporary Law, European Law. The Civilian Tradition Today, Oxford, 2001 (selected chapters).
◙. Where there are no Ten Commandments
■.The Struggle for democracy
♠. In the name of the prophet
◙.Peace & Security Institutes
☼.West African Union civil Institutions
◙ A coup from Haven
■.Head in the Clouds
■.Blank Treaty Forms


Additional reading may be handed out during the semester.

I1. Introduction:. What Is Macroeconomics?
2. National Income Accounts
3. Money and Prices
4. Credit and Interest rates
5. The Banking Sector
6. Financial Markets: Equities and Bonds
7. Exchange Rate Determination
8. Economic Growth and The Supply Side
9. Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth
10. Total Factor Productivity, Human Capital and Technology
11. Unemployment and the Labour Market
12. Consumption and Investment
13. Business Cycles
14. Monetary Policy
15. Fiscal Policy and the Role of Government
16. Stabilization Policy
17. Sovereign Debt and Default
18. International Trade
19. Globalization

Miles. D., Scott A., Breedon F. (2012) Macroeconomics. Undersanding the global economy(3rd edition), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester (UK)

Additional reading materials made available to the students by the course instructor. Additional material includes: official bulletins, research reports, quality economic press.

I1. Introduction:. What Is Macroeconomics?
2. National Income Accounts
3. Money and Prices
4. Credit and Interest rates
5. The Banking Sector
6. Financial Markets: Equities and Bonds
7. Exchange Rate Determination
8. Economic Growth and The Supply Side
9. Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth
10. Total Factor Productivity, Human Capital and Technology
11. Unemployment and the Labour Market
12. Consumption and Investment
13. Business Cycles
14. Monetary Policy
15. Fiscal Policy and the Role of Government
16. Stabilization Policy
17. Sovereign Debt and Default
18. International Trade
19. Globalization

Miles. D., Scott A., Breedon F. (2012) Macroeconomics. Undersanding the global economy(3rd edition), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester (UK)

Additional reading materials made available to the students by the course instructor. Additional material includes: official bulletins, research reports, quality economic press.

Real numbers and elementary functions (polynomials, exponentials, logarithms and trigonometric functions).
Discrete models: sequences, limits, cluster points, recurrence and discrete time growth models, infinite sums. Binomials, discrete probability.
Continuity and differentiability: derivatives, Taylor expansions.
Optimizations: local and global maxima and minima, Fermat’s rule and necessary conditions, convexity and sufficient conditions. Newton’s method.
Integration: areas, antiderivatives and fundamental theorem of calculus.
Differential equations: models from social sciences and economics.
Multivariable calculus: partial derivation, optimization.

Materials will be provided by the Professors.

Our study consists of 5 chapters. As the student will see, the separation cannot always be made
strict since each of these flows into the other because of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
Numerous examples and exercises will be interspersed so that the student can take an activist role as
well as gauge his or her own progress. Concerning prerequisites, a basic knowledge of College
Algebra and Trigonometry should suffice.
1. Introduction: We will give a brief introduction to the real numbers where calculus takes place.
We will also explain what the rational numbers are and their place within the real numbers. We then
turn to functions of one real variable and their graphs, domain and range, Key examples include
polynomials and trigonometric functions. Then follows radian measure, periodicity, roots and
intercepts and the concepts of an even and odd function as well as the inverse of a function. We will
study vectors and their inner products in R². Finally, we will give an informal definition of limits
and continuity illustrated with key examples.
2. Differential Calculus: Here we will learn how to calculate derivatives and how they linearly
approximate a function near a point. We will also work with higher derivatives and understand what
a differential equation is, solving some simple ones. We will then apply these things to graphing
functions, solving related rate and minimum maximum problems, L'Hopital’s rule for calculating
limits and Newton's method, an iterative procedure for finding roots.
3. Integral Calculus: We will deal with the second question asked at the beginning. Namely, how to
calculate the area under a plane curve and its consequences. We will develop Riemann integration
for functions defined on a closed interval, and prove the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus in
several forms, followed by integration by parts and the change of variable formula, calculation of
areas and volumes of surfaces of revolution, and finally the definition and properties of the log and
exponential functions. We will then use the exponential function to solve various rate of growth
problems, such as compound interest as well as a number of differential equations.
4. Taylor's Theorem and Power Series: Then we study the approximation of important functions
nearby a point (and sometimes uniformly) by polynomials, providing an important generalization of
the linear approximations of the first chapter.
5. Polar Coordinates and improper integrals: We give a brief introduction to the relationship of
rectangular coordinates in the plane to polar coordinates. In particular, we find the element of area
in polar coordinates and apply this to calculating the area under a normal Gaussian distribution
which is important in probability and statistics.

Materials will be provided by the Professors.

Week 1 - Europe in a Global World, 18th and 19th centuries

Week 2 - Europe in a Global World, 18th and 19th centuries

Week 3 – European Empires, World War I and its Consequences

Week 4 –Fascisms and Totalitarianisms

Week 5 – Fascisms, Totalitarianisms and World War II

Week 6 – Rebuilding Europe and the Beginning of the Cold War

Week 7 – The Global Cold War and Decolonization

Week 8 – The Process of European Integration

Week 9 – Towards the End of the Cold War

Week 10 – The End of the Cold War and Globalization

Week 11 – The Process of Globalization

Week 12 – Europe in a Globalized World

TDavid S. Mason, A Concise History of Modern Europe, 2nd edition (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011), pp.13-58 and 83-92; Bonnie G. Smith, Europe in the Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007);.

Week 1 - Europe in a Global World, 18th and 19th centuries

Week 2 - Europe in a Global World, 18th and 19th centuries

Week 3 – European Empires, World War I and its Consequences

Week 4 –Fascisms and Totalitarianisms

Week 5 – Fascisms, Totalitarianisms and World War II

Week 6 – Rebuilding Europe and the Beginning of the Cold War

Week 7 – The Global Cold War and Decolonization

Week 8 – The Process of European Integration

Week 9 – Towards the End of the Cold War

Week 10 – The End of the Cold War and Globalization

Week 11 – The Process of Globalization

Week 12 – Europe in a Globalized World

David S. Mason, A Concise History of Modern Europe, 2nd edition (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011), pp.13-58 and 83-92; Bonnie G. Smith, Europe in the Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007);.

The course deals with both traditional/natural catastrophes and modern/new/anthropomorphy disasters. Among the first group we can list earthquakes, floodings, tsunami, landslides, while among the second one we can list terrorism, black-out, gas-leakage, pollution. The most important chapters to investigate are: knowledge of the single risk, including the possible disaster connected, prevention activity, preparation activity (to the disaster), behaviour during the disaster, management of the emergency after the disaster.
It is possible to imagine that such a preparedness could lead to more ambitious programme, considering special prevention activities as well as maintenance programme for the structures potentially involved in the disaster management.

Notes, papers and references given by the teacher during the lessons. Where available, ISBN will be given in order to help students find the textbook at the best price.

Our planet is quickly changing. Also climate is changing. In last decades human population is growing up and its require of energy, food and space is increasing.
How plants can help us?
The course will deal with relation between climate and plants. The risk and the consequence due to climate changes on vegetation and flora.
Possible strategies and innovative methodologies and policy

Students will receive slides, papers, web sites

Europe has its own peculiar identity and complexity. Through the ages, some fundamental issues contributed to the birth and development of what is now regarded as a common assumption – for instance science, democracy, law and more – which indeed require a deeper understanding in order for us to be able to tackle with problems that need to be correctly interpreted before they can be solved. This is all the more valid in a global world, at a time when comparison among different cultures and civilizations is an inescapable turning-point. In the Western world, a paramount watershed was the awareness of the acceptance of the principle of causality, in a physical and mechanical sense, and consequently of the principle of individual responsibility, and of the existence of a demarcation of nature from what we use to call supernatural. On the other hand, this also presupposes the parallel development of tools of logical arguments and modes of demonstration. The class will focus on the birth and first development of notions such as those of democracy as a political system, the method of scientific research, the introduction of law and legal systems, the role of religion in society and its competitiveness towards rational thought, the circulation of knowledge, the idea of progress. We shall also see how these first steps have influenced and still influence our own thought and actions.

Bibliography includes among other:
C. Ginzburg, Clues: Roots of a Scientific Paradigm, in «Theory and Society», Vol. 7, No. 3 (May, 1979), pp. 273-288; M. Finley, Democracy ancient and modern, London 1985; Z. Bauman, Europe. An unfinished adventure, Cambridge 2004; selected pages from E.R. Dodds, The ancient concept of progress, Oxford 1973; E.R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational, Berkeley 1951; G.E.R. Lloyd–N. Sivin, The way and the word. Science and medicine in ancient China and Greece, Yale 2003 R.B. Onians, The origins of European thought, Cambridge 1957. Further bibliography and other material will be made available at the beginning of the class.

The Self-Determination Principle
The Self-Determination Principle: definition, nature, origin and legal sources
The Self-Determination Principle and its contents
The evolution of the Self-Determination Principle in the legal sources subsequent to the Charter of the United Nations
Self-Determination Principle and international practice
Minorities
General considerations on Minorities in international law: the definition of “minority”
The system of protection of Minorities in treaty law and in the soft law instruments
Mechanisms and procedures for the protection of Minorities
Self-Determination Principle and Minorities rights
Contemporary Issues
Self-Determination Principle, Minorities and the current impulses for independence in Europe: the cases of
a) Catalonia
b) Crimea
c) Scotland

Kosovo’s independence and the application of the Self-Determination Principle: a still open question

Useful Texts
K. ROEPSTORFF, The Politics of Self-Determination: Beyond the Decolonisation Process, Abingdon-New York, 2013;
S.F. VAN DER DRIEST, Remedial Succession: A Right to External Self-Determination as a Remedy to Serious Injustices?, Cambridge-Antwerp-Portland, 2013;
J. SUMMERS, Peoples and International Law: How Nationalism and Self-Determination shape a Contemporary Law of Nations, Leiden, 2007;
S. WHEATLEY, Democracy, Minorities and International Law, Cambridge, 2005;
T.D. MUSGRAVE, Self-Determination and National Minorities, Oxford, 2000;
H. QUANE, The United Nations and the Evolving Right to Self-Determination, in International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 1998, 537-572.

Section A: Principles and evolution of international economic law
1. • Evolution of international economic law
2. • Fundamental principles of international economic law
3. • Institutional structure of international economic law
4. • Sources of international economic law
Section B: International monetary and development law and policy
1. • The law and practice of the World Bank
2. • The law and practice of the International Monetary Fund
3. • Financing for development
4. • The millennium development goals
Section C: Regulation of foreign investments
1. • International efforts to regulate foreign investment
2. • Regulation of multinational enterprises (MNEs)
3. • The notion of corporate social responsibility
4. • Multinational enterprises and human rights
Section D: Public international law of trade
1. • Substantive rules of the GATT/World Trade Organization system
2. • Institutional overview of the World Trade Organization
3. • Case study of the liberalisation of trade in agriculture
4. • Current trade agenda and the Doha Development Round

- M. Herdegen, Principles of International Economic Law, 2012.
- Slides provided during the lectures

o From transboundary harm to global asset approach (1972 Stockholm Declaration on Human Environment, 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development)
o The conventional framework: from the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
o The polluter-pays principle, the prevention principle, the precautionary principle and the duty to do environmental impact assessment
o The 1998 Aarhus Convention and the development of procedural rights in the environmental context

Complementarity of the international and domestic level of protection
o The necessary voluntary engagement of the State on whose territory the cultural property or the natural site/endangered species is localized
o “Soft means of coercive implementation” to grant best effectiveness of protection

Selected materials will be distributed to the students during the course.
Some suggested readings are available in electronic form.
General Reference Textbooks:
Craig Forrest, International law and the protection of cultural heritage, Routledge, November 2010, ISBN: 978-0-415-46781-0, 458 pp.
Ved P. Nanda, George (Rock) Pring, International Environmental Law and Policy for the 21st Century, Brill/Nijhoff, 2nd Revised Edition, ISBN13: 9789004242869; E-ISBN: 9789004250239, Publication Date: October 2012, Copyright Year: 2013, Format: Hardback, 668 pp.

October 13: Introduction: What is Global Law?
M. Shapiro, The Globalization of Law, 1 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 37 (2000);
B. Kingsbury, N. Krisch, R. B. Stewart & J. Weiner, The Emergence of Global Administrative Law, 68 Law and Contemporary Legal Problems 2005.
I. Norms and Values
October 16: The General Principles of Law Shared by National Legal Orders
Statute of the International Court of Justice, Article 38;
Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community, Article 185;
Giorgio Gaja, General Principles of Law, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (2007).
October 16: General Principles of Law and “Values”
C. Harlow, Global Administrative Law: the Quest for Principles and Values, 17 The European Journal of International Law (2006);
G. della Cananea, Procedural Due Process of Law Beyond the State, in Armin von Bogdandy, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Jochen von Bernstorff, Philipp Dann, Matthias Goldmann (eds.) The Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions: Advancing International Institutional Law Springer Publ., Heidelberg 2009;
Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (done at Aarhus, Denmark, on 25 June 1998).
October 23: The Rule of Law and Democracy Beyond the State
E. Stein, International Law and Democracy: No Love at First Sight, 95 American Journal of International Law (2001);
U. Mattei, A Theory of Imperial Law: A Study on U.S. Hegemony and the Latin Resistance, 17 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (2005);
Security Council of United Nations, Resolution 1373 (2001) [concerning the measures to prevent terrorism].
II. Interests, Rights, and Remedies
October 27: Human Dignity and Habeas Corpus are “Absolute” Rights?
European Court of Human Rights, Judgment of 28 February 2008, Case Saadi v. Italy, (Application no. 37201/06);
US Supreme Court, Boumediene et al v. Bush (2007) [Excerpt: pp. 9-76 of the document];
Further reading: Gentili, European Court of Human Rights: An absolute ban on deportation of foreign citizens to countries where torture or ill-treatment is a genuine risk, 2 Int J Const. L. 318 (2010).
October 30: Ownership, Foreign Investments, and Due Process of Law
ICSID Convention (excerpts);
Treaty establishing the North-American Free Trade Area (excerpts);
ICSID CASE No. ARB(AF)/97/1, Metalclad v. Mexico, Award (2000).
November 6: Indigenous Groups and Property:
The Mayagna (Sumo) Community v. Nicaragua, Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Judgment of 31 August 2001): excerpts;
Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group v. Canada, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Petition 592-07.
November 13: The Regulation of GMOs
European Court of Justice, Case C-236/01, Monsanto v. Italy;
Tribunale amministrativo regionale del Lazio, sez. I, decision of November 29 2004, n. 14477;
Further reading: J. Scott, European regulation of GMOs and the WTO, 9 Col. J. Eur. L 213 (2002-3).
III. When Legal Orders Collide
November 20: Due Process in Global Law: Kadi (I)
Court of First Instance of the EU, Case T-315/01, Yassin Abdullah Kadi v Council of the EU and the Commission;
Advocate General Maduro, Opinion of 16 January 2008, Case C-402/05 P, Yassin Abdullah Kadi v Council of the EU and the Commission of the EC;
November 27: Due Process in Global Law: Kadi (II)
European Court of Justice, Joined cases C-402/05 and 415/05, Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v. Council;
Excerpts from:
- G. De Burca, The EU, the European Court of Justice and the International Legal Order after Kadi, Harvard International Law Journal, 51 Harv. Int'l L.J. 1/2010, pp. 1-49
- G. della Cananea, Administrative Due Process in Liberal Democracies: a Post-9/11 World, Italian Journal of Public Law, n. 3, 1/2011, pp. 195-223.
December 4: The EU and the WTO: Co-operation or Collision?
European Court of Justice, Cases C-149/96, Portugal v. Council [1999] and C-377/02, Léon Van Paris NV v. Belgisch Restitiebureau [2005];
F.G. Snyder, The Gatekeepers: the European Courts and WTO Law, in Common Market L. Rev. 40 [2003]);
Further reading: A. von Bogdandy and T. Makatsch, Collision, Co-Existance or Cooperation? Prospects for the Relationship Between WTO law and European Union law, in de Burça & Scott (eds.), The European Union and WTO. Legal and constitutional issues, 2003
December 11 and 18: Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism
A. Stone Sweet, A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Constitutional Pluralism and Rights Adjudication in Europe, Journal of Global Constitutionalism (2012);
Further reading: N. Krisch, Beyond Constitutionalism: The Pluralist Structure of Postnational Law (2010).

All of the required and recommended texts have been posted on the class web page.

Week1,2.3. October Relevance of K factor in the Global Society

1. Technical premises of GDKP , Presentation of the chief economist of FICCI – India on GDKP-India (paper distributed)
2. Darwinomics presentation at Confindustria, by Marco Oriolo (ch. Darwinomics)
3. Big shift coming, by James Wolfensohn, former president of World Bank (Ch. World Bank)
4. CNN , Country should share sovereignity, by Mario Draghi, (Ch.CNN documentaries)

Week 8-9-10 October. Social impact of the K (factor)

1. Surviving the 21st century, by Noam Chomsky, (Ch. Chomsky)
2. Nobel conference 49, by Lawrence Krauss (ch. Gustavus Adolfus College),
3. Who speaks for the earth? episod 13, by Carl Sagan (ch. Talladega tom or Tom KNJ)
4. A conversation across cyberspace, Edward Snowden and John Perry Barlow (ch, pesonaldemocracy)

Week 16 e 18 October. Global society crises and development

1. Davos 2014, the path from crisis to stability, by Mario Draghi, president of European Central Bank (Ch. World economic forum)
2. China economy – emergent economies, world economic crisis (Ch. Full documentaries)

Week 22-24 October. Global society of industry and labor
Students will select some of the many clips on Fiat and Chrysler.

1. Darwinomics, Kafka e la grande muraglia, by Bedy Moratti (Ch. Darwinomics)
2. Chrysler era in bancarotta e Fiat si è giocata tutto e io la mia carriera., By Sergio Marchionne (Ch. Vista Agenzia Televisiva Nazionale)
3. Chrysler, il sogno americano di Fiat-corporate by Sergio Marchionne (Ch. Euronews)

Week 29-31 October. Global society and GDKP, why India yes and Italy no.(ch. Darwinomics)
1. Darwinomics, Tor Vergata. By Rajiv Kumar, and Ambassador K.P:Fabian
2. Darwinomics, Tor Vergata by Michele Bagella, Beniamino Quinteri e Enrico Giovannini
3. Darwinonics, Treccani talk show, By Giuliano Amato
5. Obama, internet e il capitalismo, by Franco Tatò (Ch. Treccani
 
Case study “Global Society. K factor in the digital age.
Preliminaries for GDKP Italy.”, by the students of Global Society Course.

The case study will be prepared week by week as we discuss the study material

At the end of it we will ask Prof. Piga to present it in a seminar organized by the institute based on:

a. Gustavo Piga conference “Quali politiche in Italia per tornare a crescere e quale euro”. (youtube, ch. Speedservices Multi Servizi)
b. Article on Scientific American, Living in an Interconnected World
c. World Internet Project, by Jeff Cole, USC Annenberg, Center for digital future.

Reference Book, Darwinomics, by Umberto Sulpasso, il Saggiatore available in Italian and in English

Theoretical lessons
Introduction
Descriptive Statistics
Scales. Statistical distributions. Graphical representations. Means. Variability. Bivariate distributions: association, correlation.
Probability
Introduction. Random variables. Common families of distributions.
Statistical inference
Sampling. Sampling distributions. Point estimation. Confidence intervals. Testing statistical hypothesis.
Practical lessons
Application of theoretical methods to solve real problems in economic and social sciences.

Alan Agresti, Christine Franklin
Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning From Data
Publisher: Pearson; 3 edition (January 9, 2012)

. Introduction to epidemiology and main epidemiological descriptors

2. Natural history of acute and chronic diseases

3. Health/disease determinants (lifestyles, education, inequalities, socio-economic variables, social isolation, etc)

4. Demographic and epidemiologic transition (towards a welfare transition?)

5. The italian health system in the european context

6. A global approach to health/disease

7. Challenges and chances posed by the new scenario (lifespan, disabilities, immigrants and poor access categories, new technologies, economics, etc)

8. Health promotion (impact of public policies on health, reorientation of health and social services to new models of care, cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary approach to health

handouts from the teachers, readings from the web (www.euro.who.int, www.salute.gov.it, etc)

Introduction to epidemiology and main epidemiological descriptors

2. Natural history of acute and chronic diseases

3. Health/disease determinants (lifestyles, education, inequalities, socio-economic variables, social isolation, etc)

4. Demographic and epidemiologic transition (towards a welfare transition?)

5. The italian health system in the european context

6. A global approach to health/disease

7. Challenges and chances posed by the new scenario (lifespan, disabilities, immigrants and poor access categories, new technologies, economics, etc)

8. Health promotion (impact of public policies on health, reorientation of health and social services to new models of care, cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary approach to health

handouts from the teachers, readings from the web (www.euro.who.int, www.salute.gov.it, etc)

Introduction to epidemiology and main epidemiological descriptors

2. Natural history of acute and chronic diseases

3. Health/disease determinants (lifestyles, education, inequalities, socio-economic variables, social isolation, etc)

4. Demographic and epidemiologic transition (towards a welfare transition?)

5. The italian health system in the european context

6. A global approach to health/disease

7. Challenges and chances posed by the new scenario (lifespan, disabilities, immigrants and poor access categories, new technologies, economics, etc)

8. Health promotion (impact of public policies on health, reorientation of health and social services to new models of care, cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary approach to health

handouts from the teachers, readings from the web (www.euro.who.int, www.salute.gov.it, etc)

Basic Understanding of the Economic problem related to Public Health.
Concept of Disease prevention and Health Promotion in relationship with health economy. Discussion on World Health Organization programs.
The classes will also include a visit in the Hospital of Tor Vergata and, in particular, in the laboratory of blood analysis

The Course material will be provided by the Professor during the classes.

1. Public management as a policy field. Global trends.
2. The New Public Management and the Public Governance.
3. Public sector reforms in OECD countries in the past three decades. International institutions and policy diffusion.
4. Public management and development. Public sector reforms in developed countries: specificities and the role of international development agencies.
5. Performance management as a global movement. Performance data at the global level (WB Worldwide Governance Indicators; WB Doing Business; OECD Government at a Glance; Transparency International; EU public sector data).
6. Networks: management, leadership and performance.
7. Co-production and collaborative innovation in the public sector.
8. Strategic foresight in the public sector.

KETTL, Donald F. The global public management revolution. Brookings Institution Press, 2005.