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8011825 -
INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL AND COMMON LAW
(obiettivi)
The Course is divided in two Modules, as follows
First Module
The course deals with the civilian tradition of European law, and will be concentrated on the idea of contract in Roman law and in Civil law.
Second Module
This part of the course will deal (1) with the common law tradition of European law (with a particular emphasis on mentality, reasoning and methods) and (2) with the notion of contract in the English common law tradition law (in comparison to the private law in the civil law tradition).
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6
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IUS/02
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42
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8010827 -
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
(obiettivi)
The aim of the course is to enable the students to interpret the main developments in the international economy, using the basic tools of the theory of international trade and of international monetary economics, as well as the knowledge of basic facts and institutions. The first half of the course deals with trade, the second with international money. The trade part provides the tools necessary for an analysis of the determinants, patterns and effects of international trade and direct investment and of government trade policies. The monetary part builds on the concepts of macroeconomics of an “open” economy to discuss the determinants of exchange rates and the consequences of exchange rate policies for output and prices in the short and in the long run. A brief history of the international monetary system also explains the establishment of the single European currency.
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6
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SECS-P/01
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42
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8011700 -
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
(obiettivi)
The course deals with fundamental rights’ theory in a comparative law approach: after a general overview on the historical development of the fundamental rights in western constitutionalism, and a general classification of the main legal categories in use in this field, the course focuses on four main areas of interest.
A first group of lectures will regard the Courts (constitutional and supranational), and their role in the protection of fundamental rights, both in national as well as in European scenario. Then, substantive issues related to the protection to fundamental rights in contemporary years will be analysed: a) media laws, b) gender issues and the principle of non-discrimination; c) the International criminal justice.
In dealing with all these topics, the teachers will take into consideration national and supranational law, case-law and theoretical analysis.
Teaching Method
For each topic, a guest professor chosen on the base of the high quality of his/her research, will be invited to deliver the lectures.
The course is reserved to a very limited number of students (5-10): it will allow professors to teach seminars. This method will require students to prepare the classes well in advance, through the compulsory reading of the materials pointed out by the professors. The preparation will be evaluated in class by each professor, through questions/answers during the lectures.
Attendance is mandatory and is considered in the final grade (see “Assessment” section for the non-attending students).
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6
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IUS/21
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42
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8011709 -
ROME: ART AND HISTORY OPENAIR
(obiettivi)
The course analyzes the history of Rome and its most important sites and buildings from the Ancient Rome to nowadays, with particular attention to the urban context, architects and master builders, the building techniques and the patrons from the prominent roman families. Emphasizing the direct acquaintance of artifacts, the course adopts the en plein air approach: all the lectures are going to take place outdoors, within the city of Rome, through four thematic itineraries. Each course (36 hours) will focus on one of these itineraries. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the beauties of the history of Rome, in which every new urban ‘layer’ doesn’t erase the previous one and in which the symbolic and immanent contents constantly compete with the physic appearance of the buildings. The visits to the sites, palaces and churches will open up the stories of the Emperors, Popes, Cardinals, noble families, architects and artists who created “the Aeternal city”. To enrich each itinerary the course proposes visits outside Rome (Villa Mondragone near Frascati, Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia, Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola) and meetings with prominent romans artists and architects (Massimo Catalani, Giorgio de Finis, Massimo Alvisi & Junko Kirimoto etc.)
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6
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ICAR/18
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42
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8011805 -
MIGRATION AND MOBILITY
(obiettivi)
This course offers the students theoretical and practical tools to understand and analyze the current phenomenon of international migration from a multilateral perspective, that is to say from a European (especially Italian) and African point of view.
International migration from Africa towards Europe represent today a crucial issue for the production of new discourses on global/local governance of the fluxes, but is also perceived as a generic ‘threat’, giving rise to the production of stereotypes and the constant resorting to the security issue. Italy has become a central node of migration experience especially in the last decade, shifting from being a country of sole transit to becoming a place of settling.
The course will address the current paradigm of ‘forced’ and ‘voluntary’ migration in a critical way, by analyzing the European Agenda towards migration, the Italian practices and policies, and the current condition of migrants/refugees/asylum seekers in Italy.
The aim of the course is to encourage a balanced approach to the issues of mobility and migration in Europe and Africa by operating critical reviews of dominant analytical paradigms, stressing the need to pay attention to the longue-durée in order to explain both structural (socio-political and economic contexts, State restructuring) and contingent processes (for example the current European Agenda towards migration, the diverse governance paradigms, the effects towards fluxes). At the same time, great attention will be given to contemporary readings and critical analysis on the phenomenon, by addressing new dynamics and the production of current feasible solutions through different actors (EU, local NGOs and voluntary organization, the Municipality of Rome, migrants’ associations).
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6
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M-DEA/01
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42
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8011806 -
GENDER FLOWS
(obiettivi)
Course Description
This course will provide students with an overview of the field of Gender and Women’s Studies, Feminisms and Women’s Movements, with a specific focus on the global, intercultural and transnational dimension of Women’s and Feminist debates and activisms. The course will adopt an intersectional perspective which illustrates how relationships between systems of oppression surrounding race/ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and citizenship are interconnected and historically bound. As an introductory course, it is designed to offer a range of interdisciplinary tools and methods for understanding and analysing issues at stake. Therefore, it is divided into three section. The first one will outline the historical development of Feminisms as political, philosophical and social movements and will provide an analysis of the principal issues addressed and methodologies adopted. The second section is dedicated to the Third Way of Feminism and the prominent role that the criticism towards ethno-centrism has played in shaping its course. Post-colonial feminisms have been playing a pivotal role in articulating a critical discourse on so-called “Human Issues and Rights”, that opened new international arenas of discussion and political action both at an Institutional and a grass root level. It will be observed how and to what extent women’s transnational dialogue - and activism - has been working at the convergence of top down and bottom up approaches, giving particular attention to the UN Beijing Platform (1995) and the EU CEDAW. The third section will explore meanings and practices of De-colonization, how they are working in shaping a new idea of transnational and global women’s networks.
Teaching Method
Each Topic of the first two Sections will be divided in two parts: Framework and Lemmas. The first will introduce a Topic from an historical angle, outlining the theoretical framework in which the Topic has been conceived and discussed. The latter intends to provide a critical analysis on how specific meanings, concepts and categories related to the Topic at stake have been developed and used in the contest of Feminisms, Gender and Women’s Studies.
While Framework lessons are intended as Lectures, Lemmas’ lessons are seen as a space of interaction and debate, in which students are asked to actively participate.
In the third Section specific readings and videos about De-colonization will be analysed and proposed as themes of discussion.
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6
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SPS/07
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42
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8011810 -
GAME THEORY
(obiettivi)
These Lectures are meant to support the student with basic game-theoretic instruments helpful to absorb elementary oligopoly strategic theory in the absence of uncertainty (topics 1 to 5) and the study of decision theory under uncertainty and contract theory to stimulate the right incentives in principal-agent models like managers- shareholders (topics 6 to 10). Each model will be introduced by the study of equilibrium concepts and their intuition will be reinforced by inter-disciplinary examples.
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6
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SECS-P/01
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42
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8011864 -
HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
(obiettivi)
Course Description
This course will cover the history of international relations since 1945 and present students with a vision of how the international order changed and evolved. The main focus will be on processes that marked the period in terms of global organisation and governance, and their interactions. The development of a bi-polar world order and the successive generation of a multilateral system comprising hegemonic powers with clashing ideals will be central. Yet other processes intersected with or openly challenged the Cold War dominant structure, and hence qualify its strength as all-out explanation and interpretative paradigm for the whole period. The course will thus devote particular attention to global processes – decolonisation and the emerging of the Third World, and the remoulding of the Western system to meet these challenges – as well as to key regional processes affecting the Cold War system at its hearth, that is European integration both East and West, and their entanglements.
The course will constantly highlight how these historical processes are connected with today’s post-Cold War global order, its features, actors and dynamics. Hence the course aims at providing some of the factual grounding and conceptual apparatus necessary to better understand the contemporary world.
Teaching Method
The course will combine lectures with seminar activities. The latter include in-class presentation and discussion of assigned readings, as well as hands-on work on primary sources (text analysis and contextualisation, critical assessment of information, etc). Students are therefore expected to attend every class, read the readings before class, and come prepared to participate in discussions. Each student will, in turn, present to the class two assigned readings, critically assessing content and arguments, and introducing related questions for the class discussion.
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6
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M-STO/04
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42
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8011865 -
EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS
(obiettivi)
Course Description
The Course is intended as an Introduction to the historical evolution of European integration, from the early Communities (European Coal and Steel Community, European Economic Community, Euratom) to the European Union.
Its aim is to present students with the complexities of integration process in terms of actors, mechanism, policies, and to reveal its implications for both member states and third countries. At the same time, it will highlight the connections of the integration process with the wider international context. Finally, the course provides a historical perspective to some major topics of the current debate on European integration, such as euro, single market and fiscal compact; role of European institutions in global governance; enlargement, common foreign policy and international role.
From a methodological point of view, the Course aims to familiarize students with theories and historiographical interpretations, as well as with original documentation and languages related to European integration.
Teaching Method
Lectures; in-class discussion of assigned readings; analysis and contextualisation of original documentation and debate on its content.
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SPS/04
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8011809 -
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
(obiettivi)
This course will investigate the productive processes transformations in the era of the 4.0 industrial revolution. The CSR will be approached from different perspectives:
- the historical evolution of the CSR theory, Freeman, Varian, Porter to Mintzberg, Bawens, Stiegler.
- the relation between the impact theory and practice and the return for the society in terms of economic, social and environmental sustainability
- the role of the stakeholders and the new configurations of the peer value
- the new geography of the shared value (Porter & Kramer 2007) and the hybridization: the benefit corporations and the social enterprises and the challenge of the measurement
- analysis of the sustainability of the new forms of value creation: sharing, collaborative and circular economy
- the social impact management: design, measurement and evaluation
- the finance of social innovation: social impact bond and pay by results models
- digital revolution and social innovation: the convergence of the peer to peer paradigm
- social innovation case studies and possible projects for the students:
o AlpSib project: the use of social impact bond for NEET
o Capodarco project: the disruption of the business models of the social cooperatives
o CLT project: how to rethink the housing market
o International Cooperation projects: the social innovation in the international perspective of cooperation between ONG and local communities
o Education projects: the use of open technologies for a new model of knowledge creation and sharing
o Urban and Rural Regeneration projects: the social innovation approach to the sleeping assets for new forms of value generation processes
- The social entrepreneurship approach to social responsibility
- Humane entrepreneurship: how to meet humane and business cycle
- the shift towards the Corporate Social Desirability: the platform cooperativism as a new systemic paradigm.
The objective of the course is to share with the students concepts and knowledge related to the changes of the economic processes and its implications on the organizations. The expected impact of the course is to improve the awareness of the students for their professional choices, and to promote changes in their trajectories in order to open new opportunities of value generation through the social entrepreneurial approach.
Teaching Method
Each lesson will be divided into two sections:
- the first section will be dedicated to the theoretical aspects related to the topic addressed;
- The second one will be a co-working process for the co-design of innovative and sustainable solutions.
Some lessons will be held by inspiring testimonials that will help us both in discovering in depth particular aspects or experiences of CSR and in setting the tools for the generation of innovative and sustainable solutions.
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6
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SECS-P/07
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42
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8011870 -
BUSINESS STRATEGY
(obiettivi)
Course Description
The course explains up-to-date standard strategic management process. The coverage ranges from basic analytical tools, through developing strategies, to putting strategic intent into action.
The focus of this course is on developing pragmatic and action-oriented analytical skills supported by a mix of business strategy standard framework coupled with illustrative and in-depth cases.
The objectives of the course are:
• to develop an understanding of the business-strategy framework;
• to understand and apply the analytical tools and lenses used by managers throughout the strategic management process;
• to understand the approach strategists use in order to develop and sustain their businesses;
• to understand the challenges deriving from the ongoing digital transformation
Teaching Method
Academic classes based on text book & articles, plus interviews and web materials.
Case studies for going closer to practice.
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6
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SECS-P/08
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42
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8011872 -
ALGORITHMS, DATA AND SECURITY
(obiettivi)
Course Description
Nowadays, many organizations produce and/or collect huge quantities of data, which is becoming a key asset for their strategies. The main objective of this course is to introduce students to the notion of
algorithmic intelligence, by providing a basic toolkit of algorithmic and quantitative methods that are able to analyze and extract value from data. In particular, the course aims at introducing (some of) the main algorithmic innovations at a basic level while still trying to remain rigorous.
Teaching Method
Lectures will be based on oral presentations. Some kind of analysis will also be presented at the board, and used for open discussions. Some part of every lecture will be dedicated to in-class discussions. Interaction between the instructor and students will be strongly encouraged.
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6
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ING-INF/05
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42
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8011871 -
STATISTICAL LEARNING
(obiettivi)
Course Description
The course covers the main statistical models and techniques used to predict a target variable (supervised statistical learning, SSL) or to reduce the dimension of the data (unsupervised statistical learning, USL). In details, the linear and logistic regression models will be discussed in the SSL section, while techniques like principal component analysis and cluster analysis will be discussed in the USL section.
As an example, consider a company and its customer database where on each customer (unit) are recorded a number of characteristics (variables): age, gender, amount spent, online customer (yes/no), product purchased, etc. Statistical learning models/techniques can help us finding answers to questions like:
[Linear regression] can the amount spent be explained/predicted by age and gender?
[Logit regression] can the status of “online customer” be explained/predicted by the type of product purchased?
[Principal component analysis] are there relationships (correlations etc.) among the observed variables? If so, which ones? Can these be summarized in one or more prototype/latent variables able to highlight the different purchasing behaviour of customers?
[Cluster analysis] are there different types of customers? If yes, how many and what are they?
Teaching Method
Emphasis is on principles and specific models/techniques.
Each method is introduced by examples and described in mathematical formulas. Some math is essential but only few derivations are made. Models and techniques are discussed from a theoretical and a practical point of view, describing their definition/properties and their implementation by using a statistical package. Some hours of computer laboratory give to the students the possibility to practice what they learn.
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6
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SECS-S/01
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42
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