NON ATTENDING students:
European Court of Human Rights:
(www.echr.coe.int)
Case of LEYLA ŞAHİN v. Turkey, 10 November 2005
Case of LAUTSI and OTHERS v. Italy, 18 March 2011
Case of S.A.S. v. France, 1 July 2014
Case of OSMANOĞLU and KOCABAŞ v. Switzerland, 10 January 2017
Case of SEKMADIENIS LTD. v. Lithuania, 30 January 2018
European Court of Justice:
(www.eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html)
Case 130/75, 27 October 1976
Case C-157/15, 14 March 2017
Supreme Court of Canada:
(www.scc-csc.ca)
Case of SYNDICAT NORTHCREST v. AMSELEM, 2004
Case of MULTANI v. COMMISSION SCOLAIRE MARGUERITE BOURGEOYS, 2006
Case of BRUKER v. MARCOVITZ, 2007
Case of S.L. v. COMMISSION SCOLAIRE DES CHÊNES, 2012
Case of LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL v. QUEBEC (ATTORNEY GENERAL), 2015
ATTENDING students:
Didactic materials will be handed out during the lectures and will be put on the Moodle Platform.
ATTENDING and NON ATTENDING students:
It's necessary to know:
The European Convention of Human Rights; The Treaty on European Union and The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; The Constitution Acts 1867 to 1982 (Canada).
Suggested readings:
Eugene A. Forsey, How Canadians Govern Themselves, 9th edition
(https://lop.parl.ca/About/Parliament/senatoreugeneforsey/book/preface-e.html).
Learning Objectives
The course focuses on Religious Freedom studying some important judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice and 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:
Written exam.
The exam is composed of two questions about the course programme.
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 Human Rights concerning the art. 9 of ECHR;
- Judgments of the European Court of Justice concerning Religion.
Religious Freedom in Canada: the analysis of a different model and the multiculturalism challenges.