00536 - Roman Law Fundamentals

Learning outcomes

The course aims at an effective introduction to the sources and institutions of Roman law and local law (Volksrecht). At the end of the course the student is acquainted with the rudiments of the Roman law and his sources, as he/she is able to connect notions and problems both to the history of urban and monumental culture and to the art of the Roman civilization.

Course contents

This is a six-month course, and it will take place in the second semester. The course will be divided into two modules. • The sources of the Roman law (2 CFU: Gnoli): a synthetic picture of the main sources useful to the study of Roman law (inscriptions, papyri, legal codes). • Institutions in the documents (4 CFU: Tarozzi): Study of some juridical institutions that are typical for different branches of the Roman law (guardianship, deeds of sale or of gift, wills, emphyteusis) both from an institutional and a pragmatical point of view by means of the reading of documents.
For the first module (Prof. Gnoli) the text supporting the lessons is: F. Amarelli, L. De Giovanni, P. Garbarino, A. Schiavone, U. Vincenti, Storia del diritto romano, a cura di A. Schiavone, Seconda edizione, Giappichelli, Torino 2001, Parte II: La produzione del diritto, pp. 151-255. For the second module (Prof. Tarozzi) the text supporting the lessons is:  D.Dalla - R. Lambertini, Istituzioni di diritto romano, Giappichelli Torino, ult. edizione: capitolo II: §§ 6, 10, 12, 13, 14; capitolo V: § 3, 4, 7, 8, 11 (solo usufrutto); capitolo VI §§ 1, 2, 4, 7, 10.

Readings/Bibliography

Teachers will recommend a specific literature directly during the lessons. The texts presented at the lessons will be put on-line together with the publication of lecture notes on the web-page of the course. Subsidiary texts (recommended if the the texts on-line are too difficult for the student): • D. Dalla,"Introduzione a un corso romanistico", Giappichelli, Torino, last edition;
• D. Dalla - R. Lambertini, "Istituzioni di diritto romano", Giappichelli, Torino, last edition.
For those studends who do not or will not sit the exam of  "Papyrology" one of the following texts is recommended as well.
• L. Migliardi Zingale, "Introduzione allo studio della papirologia giuridica", Giappichelli, Torino, last edition
or
• G. Purpura,"Diritto, papiri e scrittura", Giappichelli, Torino, last edition.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

The course will be organized in frontal lessons held by the teachers themelves who will sometimes make use of an overhead-projector, computer presentations and photocopies of texts. All these materials can be found at the end of the course also on-line on the web-page of the course

Office hours

See the website of Tommaso Gnoli

See the website of Simona Tarozzi