Course teached as: B020745 - STORIA DELLA COSTITUZIONE ROMANA 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in DEGREE IN LEGAL SERVICES
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course aims to provide a general knowledge of Roman law and criminal procedure, analyzed in the context of the institutional transformations of Rome, from the monarchical age to the late empire.
The final exam will be based on the notes taken at the lessons and on A. Petrucci, Corso di diritto pubblico romano, Torino, Giappichelli, 2017, and B. Santalucia, La Giustizia penale in Roma antica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013.
Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is to provide the student with the tools to know a peculiar 'criminal system' and a 'processual-penalistic' system which, engaging in a paradigmatic legal experience, allows to identify a constant in the development of every legal experience: the influence exercised by political institutions in the transformation of criminal lau and criminal procedure.
Prerequisites
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Teaching Methods
Frontal teaching: total 48 hours
Further information
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Type of Assessment
Verification of learning will be based on an oral examination. During the oral examination, the critical maturity of the student will be evaluated in relation to the topics discussed: exam consists of three questions. In particular, the knowledge of the history of Roman institutions . It will also assess the ability to understand interconnections between the various fields and the critical awareness reached overall in relation to the content of the course.
The evaluation is sufficient if at least two out of three answers are fully sufficient and there are no serious mistakes or gaps. The evaluation will be excellent if all three questions will be treated exhaustively.
Course program
The program of the course presents the constitutional headings of the magistrature system, with special attention to the continuous transformation of power structures over time, rethinking the traditional three-partition that wants the succession of monarchical, republican and dominant ages. Magistrates will appear as essential organs for the continuity of the political community: the moments of vitality, crisis, and re-establishment that have cyclicly known the Roman constitution will be traced back to the main evolution and development nodes of political society which has seen over time modeling the network of relationships on which the material constitution of Rome was built.