The public legal education in Romania and Italy. A comparative perspective
The public legal education in Romania and Italy. A comparative perspective

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the distinction between the notions of “legal” and “judicial”, the present study aims to highlight ab initio the difinition of legal education, how to approach the explanation of legislation for everyone and how to educate citizens in the spirit of justice and respect for law, given the importance of the rule of law. Currently, in Romania, public legal education is an optional school subject, being organized various legal education clubs in schools and high schools, in order to familiarize students with the main regulations that confer rights and obligations to citizens. In parallel, students study the universal rights of the child, concepts related to national and European affiliation, human rights, democratic values (responsibility, justice, freedom, property) in the discipline of CivicEducation, compulsory discipline. Unlike the Mioritic area, in Italy aspects of legality are taught in the discipline of Civic Education, but there are proposals to change the curriculum, as well as to introduce qualified teachers in legal sciences to raise this subject to the rank of legal science, in order to achieve a high standard quality of the educational act. The study also develops the topics approached within the discipline, respectively institutions of constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law, contravention law, family law, state organization, commercial law, transport law, culminating with the restriction of some rights and freedoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the author develops the importance of the existence of a legal education related to the upbringing and development of children in the spirit of truth and justice, to understand concepts such as clarity, accuracy, predictability and accessibility, and in the corollary to follow the path of IUS EX AEQUO ET BONO. Finaly, the study emphasizes the attempt of non-governmental organizations to introduce judicial education in the Romanian curriculum, at least as an optional school subject, in order to create a pedagogy of legality.

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