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56860 - STORIA DEL DIRITTO MEDIEVALE E MODERNO 4

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Expected Learning Outcomes

Course Structure

Lectures, slides, workshops, judgements' analisys, mooting.

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus. Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.

Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.

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Detailed Course Content

The course aims to illustrate, in its essentials features, the history of the sources of law and of the European legal science from the decline of the Western Roman Empire up to nowadays. Usefulness and limits of traditional periodization: the High Middle Age and the Late Middle Age; the Modern Age; the Contemporary Age. The purpose of the course is to provide an overview of the social, legal, political and religious changes happened in Europe up to the 20th century in order to highlight the links between legal science, law and jurisprudence. The main topics to be covered during the course are: the laws of the barbarians; the birth and the development of medieval universities; the legal science of Glossators and Commentators; the origins of Modern State; the Legal Humanism; the doctrine of natural law; the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; the age of codifications.

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Textbook Information

AA.VV. Tempi del diritto, Giappichelli, Torino, 2018

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