96345 - CONCETTI GIURIDICI DI BASE

Learning outcomes

BASIC CONCEPTS OF LAW

The course aim to develop in their students a basic level of skill in comprehension, analysis and presentation of Roman Law. Students are expected to know primary sources of Roman Law and to understand legal systems that derive from it. They are expected to think hard about what they have read, so as to develop views not simply about what the law is, but also about why it is so, whether it should be so, how it might be different, and so on, drawing on moral, philosophical, social, historical, economic and other ideas.

Course contents

The course focuses on set texts from the Codes and Digest. Its primary aim is to understand those texts and the ideas and methods of the great Roman jurists who wrote them. The secondary aim is, by comparison, to throw light on the law of our own time. It allows students to study in some detail the outlook and methods of reasoning of the classical jurists who provide the models on which professional legal argument has ever since been based. In practice this will lead to discuss influence of Roman Law and fundamentals of the law of property and obligations.

• Ownship
• Possession
• Acquiring Ownership
  
• Limited rights to the use of another's property
  
• Property and obligations
• Basic procedural rules
  
• Fundamental Principles of Obbligations
• Contract
• Delict (Tort): Lex Aquilia de damno

Readings/Bibliography

G. BASSANELLI SOMMARIVA, Principi di diritto privato romano. Introduzione metodologica agli studi giuridici, Giappichelli Editore, Torino, 2020 (second renewed edition).

As Casebook: G. SANTUCCI, Il sistema aperto del diritto romano. Antologia di testi, Giappichelli Editore, Torino, 2018.

Teaching methods

The Course will be held by Prof. Simona Tarozzi. The topics will be exposed through frontal lesson and exercitations on cases solving by group or individually.

Assessment methods

Written examination on abovementioned topics. The exam consists of five questions divided in multiple-choice question and short-answer questions [in the answer field please write one of the names indicated in the question or 'nessuno (none)' or 'tutti (everybody)'] . The test will last 20 minutes. The questions appear sequentially and it is not possible come back to previous questions.

In this assessment particular attention should be paid to knowledge of abovementioned topics, ability to reason and to make connections between topics.

Preparation tests will be avaible on VIRTUALE (s. Teaching tools).

Registration examination only on Almaesami (https://almaesami.unibo.it/almaesami/welcome.htm ).

Teaching tools

Slides and teaching aids are available on line (https://virtuale.unibo.it/), from Course 's web page, too.

Students with learning disability are requested to contact Prof. Simona Tarozzi during lesson or by mail (simona.tarozzi@unibo.it).

Office hours

See the website of Simona Tarozzi