00942 - History of Roman Law

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Simona Tarozzi
  • Credits: 7
  • SSD: IUS/18
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0660)

Learning outcomes

The course aim to develop in their students a basic level of skill in comprehension, analysis and presentation of Roman Public Law. Students are expected to know primary sources of Roman Law and to understand european and transoceanic 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 is organized in three parts: History of Roman Constitution, Sources of Law and Legal Science. Through literary and legal texts, european and worldwide cultural heritage, will be analized the following items: citizenship, colonization, bureaucracy, jurisdiction, role of the jurist, case law, imperial legislation, legal certainty and knowledge of law, codification.

Readings/Bibliography

Per i frequentanti: i materiali saranno indicati a lezione.
Student attende the course: text will be suggested during the course.
Students don't attend the course:   R. BONINI, Materiali per un corso di storia del diritto romano, vol. I, Monarchia e Repubblica  (except: part I  "L'età monarchica" and part II "L'età repubblicana" capp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 12) and Vol. II, Principato, Pàtron, Bologna, 1982 and 1983. G. LUCHETTI, Materiali per un corso di storia del diritto romano , vol. III, Dominato , Pàtron, Bologna, 2004. Text are tool for supporting preface of each chapter.
R. BONINI, Introduzione allo studio dell’'età giustinianea , fourth edition, Pàtron, Bologna, 1985.

Assessment methods

Oral examination.  Students who attend the course: the learning will be verified during the lectures, by involving the students in discussion and solution of legal cases. Anyway it is possible, for all students, to agree with the professor upon another assesment methods.

Teaching tools

Slides.

Office hours

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