Course aims:

• Students should assimilate the fundamental knowledge in the field of constitutional law – constitution, constitutionality control, separation of the powers, political parties, political regime, voting system
• To equip students with the intellectual tools necessary to properly conceptualize and analyze constitutional issues.
• Assimilation of constitutional institutions must be made from a jurisprudential perspective.

Course Entry Requirements:

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Course contents:

• Introduction to the study of Constitutional Law. Why a Constitution? The Constitution and constitutional law's functions. • The Constitution: concept and forms of Constitution; • Creation and ratification of the Constitution; • Revision and abrogation of the Constitution; • Constitutionality review; • Constitutional courts in United States and Europe; • The state. Definition, elements and characters of the state; • Forms of State (the unitary and the federal system). Necessity of the State; • State Power. Separation of Powers; • Political parties. Definition, classification, functions; • Republic versus monarchy; • Voting systems; • Political Regimes. Authoritarian and Totalitarian Regimes; • Political Regimes. The representative democracy. The Legislative and the Executive Power in the democratic regime.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification.

Learning outcomes:

• Applying theories, principles and concepts in a context determined • Preliminary analysis of the data, their interpretation, the carrying out of classifications and some conceptual delineations

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – interpretative essay – 80%; continuous assessment – 20%.

Recommended reading:

• Mircea Criste, Instituţii constituţionale contemporan, Vest Publishing House, Timişoara, 2011;
• Ştefan Deaconu, Drept constituţional, C.H. Beck Publishing House, Bucureşti, 2011;
• Ştefan Deaconu, Instituţii politice, C.H. Beck Publishing House, Bucureşti, 2012;
• Ioan Muraru, Elena Simiona Tănăsescu, Drept constituţional şi instituţii politice, 13 edition, I and II volume, C. H. Beck Publishing House, Bucureşti, 2009;
• Ioan Muraru, Elena Simina Tănăsescu, coordonatori, Constituţia României. Comentariu pe articole, C.H. Beck Publishing House, Bucureşti, 2008;