Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

European History of Law (online) - (non attivo a.a. 2023/2024)

European History of Law (online)

Anno accademico 2023/2024

Sommario insegnamento

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

Obiettivi formativi

The European History of Law course is framed within the general objective of Global law and transnational Legal studies to focus on the discipline of legal comparison that will give the students the possibility to deepen the research of different legal models, practices and cultures that outline the scope of global and transnational law. 

In particular, the course aims at equipping the students with an in-depth knowledge, from an
historical-juridical perspective, of the institutional, and intellectual elements that European legalsystems tend to have in common. Through the examination of the transformations undergone by law in history, the course aims to foster in students an awareness of the development and also the relativity and development of the legal phenomenon.

Specific attention will be devoted also the study of the changes occurred in the non-European legal systems that were influenced and influenced the legal evolution in Europe.

Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

This kind of approach to legal history,  which isn't focused just only on notions and dates, aims to train the students to independence of judgment and to offer the right critical eye under which observe the developing and relativity of law.

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

Knowledge and comprehension

- In-depth knowledge of the relevant legal phenomena in the European history of

law

- Ability to highlight the different matrices, structures, concepts and the main scientific

orientations of the European juridical tradition

- Awareness of the remarkable implications of law in every person's situation across history

Ability to apply knowledge and comprehension

- Ability to handle a complex reasoning about the topics discussed in class

- Ability to apply the rules and principles of Medieval, Modern and Contemporary Laws to a given

situation and to catch their implications

Autonomous intellectual approach and critical thinking

- Ability to organise the knowledge acquired and to weight its importance and relevance

- Ability to understand and to personally discuss topical issues through the lenses of the historical-

juridical method

- Ability to explain the knowledge acquired, by using an appropriate legal terminology

Programma

The course deals with the basic aspects of European legal history. Following the comparative legal history approach, it will present some key-elements: among them, Ius commune/Common Law traditions, legal Humanism, Natural Law, Law of Reason, European Public Law, Constitutional Law, Evolution of criminal Law, Codifications, main legal trends and Schools. Particular attention will be devoted also to the most important political and legal changes that took place during the 20th century, including racial and political persecution, the changes concerning European and Italian family and labour law.

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

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

The final written exam consists of 4 open written questions .

For the purposes of the final evaluation, the following criteria will be taken into consideration:
- formal accuracy (including grammar)
- completeness of the answers
- adequate selection of the relevant arguments
- adequate presentation of the arguments (including use of an appropriate legal terminology)
- autonomous organization and elaboration of the answer
"Incorrect" solutions to the cases will not automatically determine a negative evaluation, as long as the answer will be construed on a coherent reasoning, consistent with the underlying theoretical background and adequately motivated.

The evalutation of the midterm and the final exam will be expressed in grades ranging from 1 to 30.

Attività di supporto

Note

• Materiale didattico
• Bacheca appelli
• Orario lezioni
• Vai a Moodle
• Registrati a questo insegnamento
• Studenti registrati
• Invia email agli studenti registrati
• Esporta tabella