Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

The student will demonstrate deep theoretical insights about the relationship between law and politics

At the end of the course, students shall demonstrate:

- a better understanding of the political origins of law;

- deep theoretical insights about the relationship between law and politics;

- critical-thinking skills in the fields of theory of politics and law;

- improved awareness of the foundations of legal and political concepts within Western legal tradition.

Streaming video lectures with assignments for students.

All materials and assignments will be included in a Syllabus regularly implemented and uploaded on Moodle. Students attending the course must study the materials and get involved in the meetings regularly.

Meetings will be livestreamed and recorded. It is imperative that students wishing to attend the course enrol in the teaching platform (Moodle) prior to the beginning of the course, to have full access to materials and communications.

For students attending the course: preparation of a paper on one of the topics of the course.

For students not attending the course: oral examination.

Three waves of modernity, modern natural right and its crisis.
Modern natural right: Th. Hobbes, Leviathan: natural rights and natural law.
Modern natural right: Th. Hobbes, Leviathan: social contract and sovereignty.
Modern natural right: J. Locke, Two Treatises of Government: divine right of the king.
Modern natural right: J. Locke, Two Treatises of Government: natural law and government.
Crisis of modern natural right: J.-J. Rousseau, Social Contract: contract and general will.
Crisis of modern natural right: J.-J. Rousseau, Social Contract: the legislator and religion.
Crisis of modern natural right: E. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Crisis of modern natural right: C. Menger, Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences.

Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (1953).

Texts and materials provided by professors and uploaded on Moodle.