Federal Development School

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DIPLOMA IN FEDERALISM AND PROVINCIAL PUBLIC LAW

Argentine federalism has recently gained central importance, both in its political-institutional aspects and in its theoretical and conceptual aspects. The concepts of decentralization and local power have been redefined, with provinces and municipalities acquiring new roles, expectations and empowerment. In addition, new subjects and incident dynamics have been added (intrafederal law, declaration of the City of Buenos Aires as an autonomous city, formal and informal regionalization spaces), while tensions are verified with the vectors of unification of the system traditionally articulated in around the central state.

In this framework, the Diploma in Federalism and Provincial Public Law seeks to establish itself as a training space aimed at developing a conceptual and practical panorama of Argentine federalism, encompassing its deep connections with constitutional and political law, as well as the particularities that have redefined its profile generating innovations, debates and reconfigurations.

The diploma also proposes to analyze the link of the federal system with commitments regarding fundamental rights at the national and international level.

  • To review and present the relevant aspects of the theory of federalism as a framework for the dynamics of the vertical distribution of powers.
  • Identify the role, significance and significance of the institutions that translate the essence of federalism as a form of State and the basis of our decentralized power.
  • To recognize the organic-functional structure of federal institutions and differentiate the constitutional powers conferred on them, evaluating the incidence of their operation within the social context.
  • To study the consequences of adopting a federal country within the framework of the international human rights system.

Public officials from the provinces who work in the legal field (State Prosecutors' Offices, Government Ministries, Chief of Staff -teams of coordinating ministers-, Government Advisors, or related institutions).

Mixed (remote and in-person)

  • Theoretical-practical classes (virtual)
  • Theoretical classes (in person)
  • Final colloquium (in person)

Argentine federal system / Link between federalism and rights / Relationship between federalism and powers / Public control, transparency and provincial institutional design

The program has three instances of practical activities, one corresponding to each module, and they consist of a monographic work in accordance with the general guidelines proposed.

In addition, there is an in-person Final Colloquium, in which the course is divided into groups for the oral sharing of monographic works.

Approval of the course requires 75% attendance at classes, delivery of working documents (monographs) and participation in the final colloquium.