24614 - Roman Foundations of European Law

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Moduli: Giovanni Luchetti (Modulo 1) Ivano Pontoriero (Modulo 2) Fabiana Mattioli (Modulo 3)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2) Traditional lectures (Modulo 3)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0660)

Learning outcomes

The course is intended to present, by starting from the Roman experience, the historical-dogmatic perspectives relevant to the mechanism of norms formation, the structure of the preceptive language and the interpretative problems, which will provide the positive jurist with an instrument to approach the current themes concerning the unification of European law.

Course contents

Some articles of the current projects for the unification of European contract law will be analysed with a particular reference to the Draft Common Frame of Reference , with a purpose to establish a connection between those norms and the rules of the law in force in the member states of the European Union. Then it will be proceeded backwards with the purpose to explore the Roman foundations of the European contract law; therefore it will be analysed the Roman sources and their medieval elaboration and interpretation in order to reconstruct the structural, argumentative and interpretative evolution which has led from the Roman jurists solutions to the norms of modern codes.

Readings/Bibliography

For the students of the 2nd cycle degree programme:

Fondamenti di diritto contrattuale europeo. Dalle radici romane al progetto dei Principles of European Contract Law della Commissione Lando, a cura di G. Luchetti e A. Petrucci, Patron, Bologna, 2006.

For the students of the single-cycle degree programme:

1) Fondamenti romanistici del diritto europeo. Le obbligazioni e i contratti dalle radici romane al Draft Common Frame of Reference, a cura di G. Luchetti e A. Petrucci, I, Bologna, 2010.

2) Fondamenti di diritto contrattuale europeo. Dalle radici romane al Draft Common Frame of Reference, a cura di G. Luchetti e A. Petrucci, II, Bologna, 2010.

Teaching methods

For the students enrolled in the 2nd cycle degree programme (7 ECTS):

The lectures will take place during the first semester.

For the students enrolled in the single-cycle degree programme (14 ECTS):

The lectures will take place during the first and second semester.

Assessment methods

The final exam consists of an oral examination.

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Luchetti

See the website of Ivano Pontoriero

See the website of Fabiana Mattioli