Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

European History of Law (M-Z)

European History of Law (M-Z)

Anno accademico 2025/2026

Sommario insegnamento

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• Obiettivi formativi
• Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
• Programma
• Modalità di insegnamento
• Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
• Attività di supporto
• Strumenti didattici
• Scheda del corso

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Obiettivi formativi

The European History of Law course is framed within the general objective of Global Law and Transnational Legal Studies, focusing on legal comparison. This approach enables students to explore different legal models, practices, and cultures that define the scope of global and transnational law.

The course aims to equip students with an in-depth understanding, from a historical-juridical perspective, of the institutional and intellectual elements common to European legal systems. By examining the historical transformations of law, the course seeks to foster an awareness of the development, relativity, and evolution of legal phenomena.

Special attention will also be given to the study of changes in non-European legal systems that both influenced and were influenced by legal evolution in Europe.

Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

This approach to legal history, which focuses beyond mere notions and dates, aims to train students to develop independence of judgment and to cultivate a critical perspective on the development and relativity of law.

At the end of the course, students should achieve the following learning objectives:

Knowledge and Comprehension

• Acquire an in-depth knowledge of significant legal phenomena in European legal history.
• Identify and highlight the different matrices, structures, concepts, and main scientific orientations of the European juridical tradition.
• Recognize the significant implications of law in historical contexts and personal situations.

Ability to Apply Knowledge and Comprehension

• Develop the ability to reason complexly about the topics discussed in class.
• Apply rules and principles of Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Laws to various situations and understand their implications.

Autonomous Intellectual Approach and Critical Thinking

• Organize acquired knowledge and assess its importance and relevance.
• Understand and personally discuss topical issues through the historical-juridical method.
• Explain acquired knowledge using appropriate legal terminology.

Programma

Modalità di insegnamento

Lectures with assignments.

All the materials will be made available  through the teaching platform (moodle). It is therefore essential and compulsory that all the students enroll in the teaching platform to have full access both to materials, discussions and communications

Lessons will be held in person. 
The course will consist of:
- traditional frontal lessons to be held by providing students with PPT presentations and audio
presentations.

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

Students will have the option to take one midterm exam, consisting of a written test with three questions to be completed in one hour. Attendance at lectures is strongly recommended for all students, especially for those planning to take the midterm exam.

The structure of the final written exam will depend on whether the student has completed and passed the midterm:

• Students who have passed the midterm exam will be required to answer 3 questions in 1 hour.

• Students who have not taken or not passed the midterm exam will be required to answer 6 questions in 2 hours.

Final evaluation criteria will include:

• Formal accuracy (including grammar)

• Completeness of responses

• Appropriate selection of relevant arguments

• Clear and structured presentation (including correct use of legal terminology)

• Independent organization and development of answers

Both the midterm and final exams will be graded on a scale from 1 to 30.

Attività di supporto

The Moodle e-learning page of the course is a key-instrument. The students are expected to enroll to the Moodle page and to the Giurisprudenza Unito page of the course.
In particular, the Moodle e-learning page will host:
- all the presentations displayed during the lectures
- video and/or video lectures
- optional learning materials
- ancillary contents (videos, links to websites, etc.)

Students facing special learning disorders are kindly encouraged to contact the professor to disclose any hurdles they face with the study materials and the course activities. This is crucial to ensure that all students can have full and easy access to the learning opportunities offered during the course. 

Please check the relevant webpage of the Law Department website, which outlines the available institutional support and tools: https://www.giurisprudenza.unito.it/do/home.pl/View?doc=/Studiare/dsa.html'

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