Course teached as: B027700 - STORIA DEL PENSIERO GIURIDICO ROMANO 5-years Single Cycle Degree in LAW
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course concerns the history of Roman legal thought. The study of this cultural phenomenon will take place through the deepening of the intellectual status and the social and scientific role of the jurists-pontiffs, the aristocratic republican jurists, the prudentes become advisors of the prince, and, later, imperial officials.
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
The course will comprehend lectures, seminars and exercises. In particular, the introductory part consisting of lectures, will be followed by a series of seminars, during which will be discussed, encouraging the participation of the students, texts indicated at the beginning of the course. The aim is, on the one hand and more generally, to favor a critical approach to the topics dealt with in class, on the other hand, and more specifically, to help the student to move with awareness in reading and deepening bibliography , which is particularly useful also in consideration of the preparation of the final thesis, whether this is based on Roman subjects, or on any other subject.
During the lessons will be distributed materials - in particular ancient sources - useful to encourage a more in-depth knowledge of some topics covered. This material will also be made available through the Moodle platform.
The course will also benefit from the presence of invited lecturers in order to explore specific topics and the comparison with different methods of teaching and study.
Further information
Students who intend to attend the course have to subscribe through the Moodle platform. The verification of presence will be made by daily appeal. Four absences will be allowed.
Type of Assessment
The verification of learning, which will cover all the topics of course, will consist of an oral examination from which it will possible to comprehend the ability to move in the long journey carried out by the early pontiff jurists to the bureaucrat jurists of the late-ancient period, as well as his ability to grasp the fundamental moments in the history of jurisprudence such as the impact of dialectics and other topics indicated in class.
The active participation at seminars will obviously be taken into consideration.
The number of questions will depend on the trend of exam, varying according to the extent to which it will be possible to evaluate the student's preparation based on the answers received.
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.