Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

European History of Law (online)

European History of Law (online)

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
• Note
• 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

The course covers the fundamental aspects of European legal history. Adopting a comparative legal history approach, it will present key elements such as Ius Commune/Common Law traditions, Legal Humanism, Natural Law, Law of Reason, European Public Law, Constitutional Law, Evolution of Criminal Law, Codifications, and major legal trends and schools.

Particular attention will also be given to significant political and legal changes in the 20th century, including racial and political persecution, as well as developments in European and Italian family and labor law.

Modalità di insegnamento

Online delivery via the Moodle platform, through the preparation and administration of audio and video materials, written texts, slides, and exercises.

These tools are aimed at enabling a useful understanding that allows for the formulation of clarification questions, which can also be addressed through forums or a collection of FAQs; the implementation of collaborative learning processes based on synchronous interaction (chat, video streaming).

The online delivery is supplemented by three in-person lessons.

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

Weekly online exercises are scheduled throughout the course. Students are required to complete at least six of these. The results of these exercises may be used to round up the final grade.

An in-person midterm written exam will be held, covering the first part of the program. It will consist of two written questions and will account for 50% of the final grade. Attendance for this exam is optional.

The final written exam will cover the second part of the program. For students who take the midterm, the final will consist of two open-ended questions and contribute 50% to the final grade. Students who do not take the midterm will be required to answer four open-ended questions in the final exam.

Attività di supporto

Note

Please note that distance learning courses are subject to a supplementary fee, as envisaged in the current Contribution and Tuition Fees Regulation.

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