ATTENDING students:
Didactic materials will be handed out during the lectures and will be put on the Moodle Platform.
NON ATTENDING students:
W. Cole Durham Jr., Javier Martinez-Torron, Donlu D. Thayer, Law, Religion and Freedom: Conceptualizing a Common Right, 1st Edition, Routledge, London 2021.
Learning Objectives
The course focuses on Religious Freedom studying some important
judgments of the European Court of Justice, of the European Court of
Human Rights and of the Supreme Court of Canada.
The Right of Religious Freedom will be studied first of all within the
European context and then within the Canadian context.
Prerequisites
Basic information on Public Law and International Law.
Teaching Methods
Lectures in class with seminars agreed with the students who attend the
course.
Further information
In order to attend the course students shall subscribe to the Moodle
Platform by the first week of lessons. The attendance of the registered
students will be verified by the signatures. Students enrolled in the
course are required to notify the teacher before the beginning of each
lesson if they are absent writing an e-mail with the subject: "Justification".
A maximum of 3 justifications will be allowed.
Type of Assessment
ATTENDING students
Oral exam.
The exam is composed of two parts:
(I) a presentation of a case choosen by the student and agreed with the
professor;
(II) a question from the course programme.
NON ATTENDING students:
Oral exam.
The exam is composed of three questions about the suggested book.
ATTENDING and NON ATTENDING students:
To pass the exam it’s necessary to be able to discuss the didactic
materials; to be able to critical analyze the texts; to argue with specific
legal language.
Course program
Religious Freedom and International Law.
Europe and Religious Freedom: decisions and judgments of the European
Court of Justice and of the European Court of Human Rights.
Religious Freedom in Canada: the analysis of a different model and the
multiculturalism challenges.
Sustainable Development Goals 2030
This course contributes to realize the UN objectives of the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development.