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0055423 - LEGAL REASONING
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Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
Teaching Methods
Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2019-20
Coorte 2015 - 5-years Single Cycle Degree in LAW
Course year
Fifth year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Legal Sciences (DSG)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
IUS/20 - PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
02/03/2020 ⇒ 03/06/2020
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
Course program
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Learning Objectives
Understanding
Logical-formal, procedural and political-evaluative aspects of legal reasoning, investigated with a method both theoretical and case-based
Skills
Ability to analyze judgements on controversial legal issues, finding the kinds and species of argument actually used by judges.
Competences
Familiarization with problematic and critical forms of thought with reference to the general aspects of law and legal interpretation. Sensitivity to the pluralistic aspect of settling legal disputes and the prudential and argumentative character of legal thought.
Logical-formal, procedural and political-evaluative aspects of legal reasoning, investigated with a method both theoretical and case-based
Skills
Ability to analyze judgements on controversial legal issues, finding the kinds and species of argument actually used by judges.
Competences
Familiarization with problematic and critical forms of thought with reference to the general aspects of law and legal interpretation. Sensitivity to the pluralistic aspect of settling legal disputes and the prudential and argumentative character of legal thought.
Prerequisites
Students must have passed the exams of Constitutional law (general) and Private Law I and Philosophy of Law
Teaching Methods
Lectures: 30 hours
Seminars: 18 hours
Seminars: 18 hours
Type of Assessment
For attending students, active participation in the seminar and presentation of a written paper on several judgements. The evaluation will be based on the quality of the written paper, on the oral presentation and on the participation to the discussion of the papers of the other students.
For non-attending students, discussion of the reference text.
For non-attending students, discussion of the reference text.
Course program
After theoretical introductory lectures, groups of judgements of the ECHR will be analyzed. Then, during the seminar stage, the analysisi will be developed by the students. The topics which will be treated in the seminarial part of the course will be chosen by the students.