00942 - History of Roman Law

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Marco Melluso
  • Credits: 7
  • SSD: IUS/18
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 9233)

    Also valid for Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0660)

Learning outcomes

On Roman constitutional history knowlege basis, the rules and legal principles that are part of the European legal tradition are studied.

Course contents

The course will be organized in seminar lessons.

The first part of the lectures will focus on the constitutional transformations of the Roman state from the origins, VIII century BC, until the Age of Justinian, VI century AD. During the second part, the theme of production and the interpretation of norms (jurisprudential and authoritative sources) will be deepened through the critical reading of legal texts.
Further details will be proposed by the teacher and agreed with the attending students.

Readings/Bibliography

For attending students: notes and materials provided in class.

For non-attending students: A. Schiavone (a cura di), Storia giuridica di Roma, G. Giappichelli Editore, Torino, 2016.

Teaching methods

Lessons will consist of the methodical presentation and analysis of the topics, the examination, and discussion with students of legal and literary sources.

Assessment methods

The exam will be oral. For attending students, the learning assessment is foreseen in the discussion about topics covered by the course. It is, however, possible to agree with the professor a different verification method.

It will be possible to recognize the CFU of the course only after enrolling it in one of the exams dates required through the Alma-esami application (https://almaesami.unibo.it/ almaesami/welcome.htm)

Please note that for the exam inscription, the student must have previously entered it in the study plan.

Teaching tools

The teaching support materials will be available on the "Insegnamenti OnLine" platform (https://iol.unibo.it/).

Office hours

See the website of Marco Melluso