General Issues: Methodology of legal historiography. The French declaration of rights (1789); European constitutional order from Middle to Modern Age
Special Issues: English constitutional history, The American Revolution and the U.S. Federal Constitution, French constitutional history and the French Revolution, German constitutional history, European constitutionalism of the 19th Century, Democratic constitutions of the twentieth century
Regular students
General issues: notes taken from the lessons and M. Fioravanti, Costituzione, il Mulino, Bologna 1999 (just the pages that the teacher will point out during the first lessons: 70 pages more or less)
Special issues: M. Fioravanti, Appunti di storia delle costituzioni moderne, I, Le libertà fondamentali,Giappichelli, Torino 2014, III ed.
Remote students
General issues: M. Fioravanti, Costituzione, il Mulino, Bologna 1999, pp. 174
Special issues: M. Fioravanti, Lo Stato moderno in Europa. Istituzioni e diritto, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2002 (Chapters: 1,2,3,4 and 5) and M. Fioravanti, Appunti di storia delle costituzioni moderne, I, Le libertà fondamentali,Giappichelli, Torino 2014, III ed.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge
Historicity as a natural aspect of law.
Main elements of medieval and modern juridical issues
Capabilities
Historicizing normative data.
Pointing out historical origins of juridical language.
Dealing with interdisciplinary character of juridical issues
Skills
Sensibility to interpretative nature of jurist's activity. Relativity of juridical concepts and consciuosness of their historical roots.
Teaching Methods
72 hours lessons
Type of Assessment
The oral examination will aim to verify: a) Knowledge of the concepts and ideas discussed during the course; b) Ability to process these concepts in an autonomous way; c) Awareness of historicity as necessary aspect of law and knowledge of historical and conceptual roots of legal institutions
Course program
Methodology of legal historiography. The French declaration of rights (1789); European constitutional order from Middle to Modern Age
English constitutional history
The American Revolution and the U.S. Federal Constitution
French constitutional history and the French Revolution
German constitutional history
European constitutionalism of the 19th Century
Democratic constitutions of the twentieth century