- Docente: Andrea Padovani
- Credits: 7
- SSD: IUS/19
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in
Law (cod. 0659)
Also valid for Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0659)
Learning outcomes
The course focuses on the methods of reasoning used by judges and lawyers. Ancient rites oppose two parties before the bench of the magistrate; the way to reinforce each one's pretensions was studied by Greek philosophers, Roman rhetoricians and medieval scholars.
Course contents
Dialectics and rhetoric still endure and perform their functions in the modern world. Legal practices – as well as wide range communications – are styled in old, experienced clothes. Their goal is suasion about the rightness of one's point of view.
Readings/Bibliography
A. PADOVANI, Modernità degli antichi. Breviario di argomentazione forense, Bologna, Bup, 2006 is required reading.
Teaching methods
Teacher-centred class.
Assessment methods
Oral exam. The exam will focus on all the topics of the course that will be dealt with in the required reading as well as during classes (for those who attended them, of course). Classes will be held approximately from February to May: students enrolled in the year in which this course first appears in their study plan cannot take their exam before May.
Office hours
See the website of Andrea Padovani