Course teached as: B027700 - STORIA DEL PENSIERO GIURIDICO ROMANO 5-years Single Cycle Degree in LAW
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The contents of the course feature the history of thought as it pertains to Roman Law. The study of this cultural phenomenon will take place through the analysis of the social role of protagonists of Roman Law through history: the pontifex, the republican aristocrat, advisor of the Prince, and imperial functionar.
FOR ATTENDANTS STUDENTS:
- Notes of lessons;
- material distributed in class
FOR NON ATTENDANTS STUDENTS: C.Giachi-V. Marotta, Diritto e giurisprudenza in Roma antica, Carocci, Roma, 2012
Learning Objectives
The course aims to encourage students' reflection on a central problem for the emergence of European legal systems and not only, namely the birth and evolution, in Rome, of legal science.
Prerequisites
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Teaching Methods
Lectures: 48 hours.
During the lessons will be distributed some texts in order to favor a deeper knowledge of some topics.
Further information
Students who intend to attend the course must subscribe within the second week of the course. The verification of presence will be made by daily appeal. Four absences will be allowed.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination articulated through a number of questions, varying in relation to the performance of the question.
The verification of learning will consist of an oral examination from which will emerge the ability to move in the long journey carried out by the first pontifical jurists to the bureaucrat jurists of the late ancient period, as well as its ability to grasp the fundamental moments of the history of jurisprudence like the impact of dialectics and other topics indicated in class.
Course program
Roman law is at the center of the development of modern Western law. Starting from this awareness, we will discuss, during the course, the history of scientific elaboration of law in Rome.This will be primarily the history of the protagonists of this development, the jurists themselves. From the work of the Pontifices, called upon to provide the necessary rules for the life of the community, to the response of the lay jurists; from the ranks of the republican aristocrats to the advisors to the prince; and, finally, to the functionaries of the late imperial bureaucracy; from an oral dimension to the revolution of writing and the construction of an authentic literary tradition. These processes will be analyzed in the political and institutional contexts in which they developed: the dialectic of political power and social hierarchy, from the ancient monarchy, by means of the republican structure, to the Principality and the Roman Imperial Laws.