The objective of the course is to provide students with a basic knowledge of the fundamentals of administrative law. The course focuses on the discipline of functions, organization, human and financial resources, procedure and measure, as well as the basics of administrative justice, in the framework of the relationship with the European Union law.

D1 - Knowledge and understanding
The course aims to provide the student with knowledge and ability to understand the following profiles:
1. the transformations that have affected public administrations in the European and international framework;
2. the principles governing administrative action;
3. relations between levels of administration and government within the State;
4. transformations in the forms of administrative activity;
5. the ways in which the system identifies a point of balance between the care of public interests and the protection of private interests;
6. the influence of constitutional principles on the organization and functioning of public administration.
7. the relationship between the Italian and European Union legal systems and, consequently, between the forms of administrative implementation of the respective legal sources.

D2 - Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course, the student will be able to
1. find a legislative or regulatory text, or an administrative act, analyze and interpret it through a correct identification of its rationale;
2. find and analyze, also in a critical way, a jurisprudential decision of administrative judges and other Italian courts, as well as the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights;

D3 - Autonomy of judgment
At the end of the course, the student will be able to analyze and reconstruct different and possibly alternative interpretative options with regard to a legal text or a judicial decision.

D4 - Communication Skills
At the end of the course, the student should be able to explain the notions mentioned in point D1.

D5 - Learning skills
At the end of the course, the student should be able to find and analyze independently the legislation and the jurisprudential orientations in the field of administrative law.