Enrollment year
2007/2008
Academic discipline
IUS/18 (ROMAN LAW AND LAWS OF ANCIENT TIMES)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (28/09/2009 - 09/12/2009)
Lesson hours
65 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Constitutional Law, Private Law Institutions I, Institutions of Roman Law
Learning outcomes
The course covers some areas of Private and Public Roman Law, thereby expanding students'' knowledge of national and European legal traditions, as well as developing their awareness of the historical dimension of the law, their ability to explain legal texts, and a critical use of dogmatic categories
Course contents
The course covers a number of Roman Law institutions, such as family, obligations, rights in rem, interpretation of a contract and of a will. The aim of the course is to examine the underlying method of legal reasoning. Teaching includes reading of texts (with translation), thereby enabling students to solve the cases and to understand Roman Law. The focus will be on the concepts of person and identity. Part of the lectures will be devoted to the relationship between law and non-legal principles.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
Those students who attend lectures can study the materials provided and discussed during the course. Reference book: D. Mantovani, Il diritto e la costituzione in età repubblicana. Il diritto da Augusto al Theodosianus, Milano, Led, 2005, pages 171-269 and 465-490. Those students who do not attend lectures are required to study the following books: C.A. Cannata, Per una storia della scienza giuridica europea, I, Torino, Giappichelli, 1997, pages 331, or A. Schiavone, Ius. L’invenzione del diritto in Occidente, Torino, Einaudi, 2005, pages 41-399.
Assessment methods
Oral Examination
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