2016/2017

2017/2018

DM270

IUS/19 (HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN LAW)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HISTORY OF EUROPE

Medievale

2°

1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

12

72 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

DEZZA ETTORE (titolare) - 10 ECTS
FUGAZZA EMANUELA - 2 ECTS

The course Storia del diritto italiano (History of Italian Law) is propaedeutic to the course Storia delle codificazioni (History of Codifications).

The course aims to show and illustrate the most important themes and moments in the progressive formation of modern law in the age of codification, in order to provide the student who’s developing the gradual knowledge of the contemporary law structures the critical and interpretative instruments to achieve the perception, based on solid historical and conceptual bases, of the continuous becoming of legal experience.

For the academic year 2017-2018 the course has a monographic cut and is devoted to the historical evolution of the criminal procedure, with particular connection to reference models, the age of ius commune, the Common Law experience and the events taking place in Italy in the more general context of the codification of modern and contemporary law. The course presents the following articulation: 1) Accusatio and inquisitio: Comparative Pattern Models. 2) The Criminal Procedure in the Age of ius commune. 3) The criminal trial in the Common Law experience. 4) The criminal process in the age of codification: a) Cesare Beccaria’s Dei delitti e delle pene and the Eighteenth Century Reforms; B) the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Age; C) the development of the criminal procedure in Italy from the Romagnosi code to the current code.

Teaching is done through frontal lessons integrated by educational seminars on the nodal points of the historical evolution of criminal procedure.

Attending students will prepare the exam on the lessons notes and on the following texts: - E. Dezza, Lezioni di storia del processo penale, Pavia, Pavia University Press, 2013; - E. Dezza, Breve storia del processo penale inglese, Torino, Giappichelli, 2009. Non-attending students will prepare the exam on the following texts: - E. Dezza, Breve storia del processo penale inglese, Torino, Giappichelli, 2009; - A. Padoa Schioppa, Storia del diritto in Europa. Dal medioevo all’età contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007, limited to the following sections: IV. L’età delle riforme (1750-1814), chap. 27-31; V. L’età delle nazioni (1815-1914), chap. 32-36; VI. Il Novecento, chap. 37-41. As an alternative to Padoa Schioppa’s book, the student will be able to choose the following text: A. Cavanna, Storia del diritto moderno in Europa. Le fonti e il pensiero giuridico, II, Milano, Giuffrè, 2005, limited to the pp. 253-617. Both attending students and non-attending students will complete the preparation by reading Cesare Beccaria's Dei delitti e delle pene (any edition available on the market may be used: Einaudi and Feltrinelli editions are recommended).

Learning is verified by an oral exam aimed at assessing the achievement of the learning objectives of the teaching. The subject of the exam is the contents of the reference texts and, limited to the attending students, the contents of frontal lessons and didactic seminars.

Learning is verified by an oral exam aimed at assessing the achievement of the learning objectives of the teaching. The subject of the exam is the contents of the reference texts and, limited to the attending students, the contents of frontal lessons and didactic seminars.