- Docente: Silvia Vida
- Credits: 9
- SSD: IUS/20
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 9233)
Learning outcomes
Students will be introduced to a critical study of the main issues in the contemporary legal-philosohical thinking, in particular concerning the notion of validity, justice, legal norms, legal order, legal interpretation and argumentation.
Course contents
Topics covered: Law and morality; natural law doctrine; legal positivism; legal realism; constitutionalism; rule of law; legal language; legal norms; legal systems; legal interpretation ad argumentation.
Readings/Bibliography
Attending and non-attending Students:
Textbooks:
1. M. Barberis, Introduzione allo studio del diritto, Giappichelli, Torino 2014.
2. H. Kelsen, Lineamenti di dottrina pura del diritto, Einaudi, Torino 2000.
3. H. Hart, Il concetto di diritto, Einaudi, Torino 2002.
Erasmus Students:
1) H. Hart, The Concept of Law, 2nd ed. with a Postscript, Clarendon 1994.
2) R. Alexy, Begriff und Geltung des Rechts, Alber 1992.
Teaching methods
The course's format will consist in reading and commenting selected texts in class, and it may also have seminars. Lectures will be held in Ravenna during the first semester.
Assessment methods
There will be an oral final exam that students can take starting January 2018.
Teaching tools
Selected texts will be read and commented. The Students' understanding of course contents will be assessed as the course progresses. There may be seminars organized for the Students.
Office hours
See the website of Silvia Vida