The proposed Module (HRC-EU) aims at fostering an innovative interdisciplinary perspective between law and humanities in the study of the European human rights culture based on the analysis of paradigmatic cases of the European Court of Justice and of the European Court of Human Rights. This perspective will make human rights law and policies more accessible. HRC-EU meets the growing demand of humanities students for topics like law, European policies, fundamental rights. The Module will reach students of all cycles at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences and within the new international Master course in philosophy for international students at UniTO (PIC). The principal themes of the Module include: a general introduction to human rights law in the EU; the philosophy of human rights; the idea of a European human rights culture based on paradigmatic decisions of the ECJ and ECHR; the analysis of European narratives between humanities and law; European law and philosophy; philosophical analysis of juridical normativity.
Through teaching and research activities, HRC-EU aims at realizing two objectives. First, promoting the career of a young researcher specializing in European Union issues, law and philosophy, and law and humanities; second, fostering the publication and dissemination of the results through: the Journal, the publications, the events and the scientific and academic network already built by the Module leader. The work programme profits from the collaborations of the candidate with the Departments of Philosophy and Educational Sciences and of Law: she is already coordinating a Jean Monnet project funded in 2016 at the UniTO Philosophy Department, where she directs LabOnt Law. The expertise of the Module leader in various fields (legal and political philosophy, law, theoretical philosophy) will invite the students to approach current EU discourses differently.