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Shattered covenants: Arab costitutional frameworks after 2011 (II sem) Prof. Gianluca Parolin (visiting)
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Anno accademico 2024/2025
- Codice attività didattica
- INT1750
- Corso di studio
- Corso SSST
- Periodo
- Secondo semestre
- Tipologia
- A scelta dello studente
- Crediti/Valenza
- 3 (18 ore)
- SSD attività didattica
- IUS/02 - diritto privato comparato
- Erogazione
- Tradizionale
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Frequenza
- Obbligatoria
- Tipologia esame
- Elaborato
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Sommario insegnamento
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Obiettivi formativi
[Integrate Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Legal Analysis] Upon completing the course, students will be able to integrate a multidisciplinary approach to studying law, using constitutional developments in the Arab world after 2011 as their primary analytical framework, with a particular focus on Egypt and Saudi Arabia as case studies. By engaging with legal texts, television drama, and scholarly research, students will combine insights from constitutional law, political science, media studies, and cultural studies, gaining the ability to navigate complex intersections between law and popular culture. This skill set will enable students to interpret how legal reforms and visual media shape, reflect, and challenge political narratives in diverse contexts.
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Programma
Module 1 - Conventional Jurisprudence
Teaching staff : Prof. Gianluca Parolin
Module 1 delves into the profound shifts in social contracts across South-West Asia and North Africa following the 2011 uprisings. While this module primarily examines the ‘conventional jurisprudence’ surrounding constitutional change, it begins with an analysis of the counter-revolutionary imagery that visually undermined revolutionary ideals and aspirations. Subsequent sessions focus on critical aspects of post-2011 constitutional transformation, such as the processes of constitutional drafting and transition, the debates over upper chambers versus constitutional courts, and the evolving relationship between state and religion. The module culminates with an in-depth exploration of two contrasting case studies: Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
31/03-04/04/2025 (12 hours)
31/3/2025 Revolution and Counter-Revolution.
Parolin, Gianluca. Social Media Activism in Egyptian Television Drama: Encoding the Counter-Revolutio n Narrative. Middle East Critique. 28(2/2019):143-160. (link)
1/4/2025 Constitutions Against Revolutions.
Parolin, Gianluca. Constitutions Against Revolutions: Political Participation in North Africa. The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 42(1/2015):31-45. (link)
2/4/2025 Upper Houses v. Constitutional Courts.
Parolin, Gianluca. Hal Miṣr fī ḥāǧa ilá mağlis šūrá? Midan Masr. 3(April/May 2012): 26-27. (Arabic & English)
3/4/2025 State-Islam Relations.
Parolin, Gianluca. Shall We Ask al-Azhar? Maybe Not. Middle East Law and Governance. 7(2/2015):212-235. (link)
Parolin, Gianluca. Religion and the Sources of Law: Sharî‘ah in Constitutions. In Law, Religion, Constitution; Freedom of Religion, Equal Treatment, and the Law, eds. W. Cole DURHAM, Jr., Silvio FERRARI, Cristiana CIANITTO, and Donlu THAYER, 89-104. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. (link)
4/4/2025 Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Parolin, Gianluca. Drifting Power Relations in the Egyptian Constitution: The 2019 Amendments. Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo Online. 44 (3/2020):3175-3190. (link)
Parolin, Gianluca. Winter is Coming. Authoritarian Constitutionalism Under Strain in the Gulf. In Constitutional Change after the Arab Spring: Hopes, Issues and Challenges, eds. Tilmann RÖDER and Rainer GROTE, 149-172. New York: OUP, 2016. (link)
Module 2 - Visual Jurisprudence
Teaching staff : Prof. Gianluca Parolin
Module 2 examines the ‘visual jurisprudence’ that emerged post-2011, exploring how imagery has shaped popular perceptions of the state and its social contract. This module places particular emphasis on the portrayal of law enforcement, revealing insights into public attitudes toward state institutions. It also examines narratives of citizens conducting their own crime investigations, often in opposition to law enforcement, highlighting perceived failures in maintaining law and order. The module concludes with an analysis of Saudi Arabia’s legal reforms, examining the changing portrayal of lawyers before and after these reforms to assess their broader social impact.
12-14/05/2025 (6 hours)
12/5/2025 Law Enforcement on Egyptian Screens.
Parolin, Gianluca. Law Enforcement in Egyptian TV series. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 7(1/2019):95-112. (link)
13/5/2025 Criminal Investigations on Egyptian Screens.
Parolin, Gianluca. Quests for Justice Across the Mediterranean: Sorelle and *Zayy ish-Shams. Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 12(1/2024): 41-56. (link)
14/5/2025 Lawyering on Saudi Screens.
Parolin, Gianluca & Naomi Sakr. Unpublished paper.
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Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
Written essay consisting of minimum 4000 words up to 6000 words including footnotes and bibliography.
Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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Overall reference works:
Nathan Brown, Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World, New York, SUNY Press, 2001;
Tamer Mostafa, The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt, Cambridge, CU Press, 2007;
Rainer Grote & Tilmann Röder (eds.), Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity, Oxford, OU Press, 2012;
Jean & John Comaroff, Theory from the South, New York, Routledge, 2012;
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