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Principles of Roman Law A-L

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Principles of Roman Law A-L

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Anno accademico 2021/2022

Codice dell'attività didattica
GIU0751
Docente
Dott.ssa Lucia Zandrino (Titolare del corso)
Corso di studi
Laurea in Global Law and Transnational Studies - a Torino (D.M. 270/2004) [0707L31]
Anno
1° anno
Periodo didattico
Primo semestre
Tipologia
Di base
Crediti/Valenza
6
SSD dell'attività didattica
IUS/18 - diritto romano e diritti dell'antichità
Modalità di erogazione
Mista
Lingua di insegnamento
Inglese
Modalità di frequenza
Consigliata
Tipologia d'esame
Scritto
Prerequisiti
Nessuno. Conoscenze di base di storia romana e della sua periodizzazione possono però essere utili.
Propedeutico a
Nessuno
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Sommario insegnamento

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Obiettivi formativi

The educational targets of this course, as referred to the degree course in Global Law and Transnational Legal Studies, consist in: 1) providing students with the basic notions of Roman law, also with reference to the technical terminology connected to them, as a necessary basis for studying all law systems belonging to Roman law tradition; 2) introducing students to the understanding of law as a historical phenomenon subjected to modifications, hence to diachronic evolution; 3) with regard to the target mentioned under 2), introducing students to the juridical reasoning (with a main reference to civil law area) through examining the evolution of the institutes and of the systematic aspects of Roman law in the thoughts of the ancient jurists.

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Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

 

At the end of the course, students should be able to explain the basic notions of Roman law using the necessary technical terminology in a correct way; they should have acquired historical and juridical skills, so that they can explain the institutes of Roman law in their diachronic evolution; they should demonstrate to have understood and be able to express precisely the steps and stages of the process of juridical reasoning referring to each institute and to the systematic aspects of Roman law.

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Modalità di insegnamento

As the present Coronavirus pandemic is happily relenting, lectures will be regularly held in an in-presence modality, according to the ordinary timetable (every Thursday and Friday on 10.00 pm).

This course participates in the "Unita" project, which allows students belonging to foreign universities (all of them participating in the same project) to attend online courses belonging to other universitiies than their own. Therefore, lectures will be also streamed via webex at the following address: https://unito.webex.com/meet/lucia.zandrino. Video recordings of such lectures and also other teaching material (such as PDFs) will be uploaded on Moodle and available to all students. Unita students can contact by email both Professor Zandrino (for necessities connected to this course) and our offices at unita@unito.it (for general issues about Unita project). 

All students are in any case kindly asked to register to the course and also to register in the Moodle section, as this is needed in order to receive emails regarding the course (e.g. regarding meetings, teaching material, exams, etc).

Lectures and meetings do not replace the studying of the textbook, as they will usually cover only the most relevant aspects of Roman law. Nonetheless, students are highly encouraged to attend lectures, as these will be very useful for the understanding of the many technicalities of this subject-matter.

Remember that the modalities of teaching as here described could change because of a changing of the sanitary emergency. Please consult regularly this webpage for possible updates.  

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Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

Exams will be in ordinary modality starting from the winter calls (December 2021).

Ordinary modality 

Exams will be only in written form and in in-presence modality. Students will be given an hour to complete a paper divided in three sections, as following: in the first section, students must answer to a multiple choice test with three questions; in the second section, students must focus only on a definition, list etc. pertaining to a Roman specific juridical institute (e.g. list of the modes of creation of usufruct; definition of 'mandate'; etc.); in the third section, students will be asked for an in-depth explanation of a Roman juridical institute. 

 

Should the pandemic arise again, the exam modality will be as following.

Coronavirus emergency modality

Exams will be divided in two parts. The first part will consist in a text with multiple choice, which will be accessible on Moodle, consisting in 20 (twenty) questions, to be answered in 20 minutes. Every right answer will receive 1 point. Questions will concern every part of the course except the law of obligations.

A minimum of 12 (twelve) points will be needed in order to access the second part of the exam, which will be only oral. Students will be examined online in the webex room of Professor Zandrino (https://unito.webex.com/meet/lucia.zandrino). Questions will concern only the law of obligation. 

As the modalities of the examination could change because of the sudden coming back of a Coronavirus emergency, please consult regularly this webpage for further updates. 

UPDATE November 3rd, 2021

According to present regulations of our University, students can ask to take the exam online only in few cases, which can be summed up as following: 1) if You have Your legal residence outside the Piedmont region (and You are not presently in Piedmont, of course); 2) if You have serious health issues (not only due to Covid or to non-ascertained yet Covid symptoms, but also issues regarding serious forms of illness that should not be exposed to Covid risks).

Such regulations offer good grounds for taking the exam online to International students who will still be out of Piedmont on exam dates. In that case, Coronavirus emergencies modality (see above) will be applied. Students can take the online test in the same day and hour that will be given for in-presence written exams; the oral part will always take place in the afternoon of the same day at three o'clock pm (h. 15.00). In any case, student will be admitted to online exams only by a prior request, which can be simply made by subscribing the reservation form on Moodle. 

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Attività di supporto

None. 

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Programma

This course offers a wide survey, with a both systematic and historical approach, of the Roman private and procedural law, hemphasising its development from the monarchic period till the Justinian age. Lectures will regard the following thematic sectors: 


1) sources of law;

2) law of actions (procedure);

3) law of persons;

4) law of property;

5) law of obligations.

 

Please take into account that the law of inheritance and the European ius commune are excluded from this course (see under in the textbook section)

 

Please refer to teaching material uploaded on Moodle for what concerns the part of the course concerning the law of actions (see under in the textbook section)

Testi consigliati e bibliografia



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Libro
Titolo:  
Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law (6th or further edition)
Anno pubblicazione:  
2020
Editore:  
Oxford University Press
Autore:  
Paul du Plessis
ISBN  
Obbligatorio:  
Si
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Please notice that part III, chap. 8 (law of inheritance) and part V as a whole of the above mentioned textbook are excluded from this course

Teaching material regarding the law of actions (procedure) will be uploaded on Moodle and considered as obligatory part of this course.

Students belonging to precedent academic years (before the current 2021-22) can freely choose to study either on Borkowski's Textbook or on W.W. Buckland, A Manual of Roman Private Law (II ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1939 (paperback edition 2011) [pages 146-152, 172-246 are excluded]. This latter will be accepted till the end of winter exams (February 2022), but not after such date. Such rule concerns only this course. Students belonging to precedent academic years who choose to follow "Principles of Roman Law" with Professor Sciandrello should check his rules in his course webpage. 

   

 



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Note

This course participates in the "Unita" project, which allows students belonging to foreign universities (all of them participating in the same project) to attend online courses belonging to other universitiies than their own. Therefore, lectures will be also streamed via webex at the following address: https://unito.webex.com/meet/lucia.zandrino. Video recordings of such lectures and also other teaching material (such as PDFs) will be uploaded on Moodle and available to all students. Unita students can contact by email both Professor Zandrino (for necessities connected to this course) and our offices at unita@unito.it (for general issues about Unita project). 

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