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B020745 - HISTORY OF ROMAN CONSTITUTION
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Academic Year 2012-13
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Legal Sciences (DSG)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
IUS/18 - ROMAN AND ANCIENT LAW
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
40
Teaching Term
04/03/2013 ⇒ 31/05/2013
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
ITALIAN.
Course Content
Following the history of the Roman constitution: kingdom, republic,
principate, dominate.
principate, dominate.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Students attending lessons: Lessons notes plus B. SANTALUCIA, DIRITTO
E PROCESSO PENALE NELL'ANTICA ROMA, GIUFFRE', MILANO 1998
(except endnotes).
Students not attending lessons:
A. SCHIAVONE (A CURA DI), STORIA DEL DIRITTO ROMANO, GIAPPICHELLI,
TORINO, 2005 (except pp. 115-152 and 257-387); and B. SANTALUCIA,
DIRITTO E PROCESSO PENALE NELL'ANTICA ROMA, GIUFFRE', MILANO
1998 (except endnotes).
E PROCESSO PENALE NELL'ANTICA ROMA, GIUFFRE', MILANO 1998
(except endnotes).
Students not attending lessons:
A. SCHIAVONE (A CURA DI), STORIA DEL DIRITTO ROMANO, GIAPPICHELLI,
TORINO, 2005 (except pp. 115-152 and 257-387); and B. SANTALUCIA,
DIRITTO E PROCESSO PENALE NELL'ANTICA ROMA, GIUFFRE', MILANO
1998 (except endnotes).
Learning Objectives
Knowledge
The passage from a monarchy to a republic and the struggle between the
plebes and the patricians. The legislative decemvirate and The Twelve
Tables. The republican Constitution. The sources of law in the imperial
period. Absolute monarchy. Post-classical law. The Justinian Code. The
law and criminal trials.
Abilities
Students will: increase the knowledge of Roman law already gained
through the analysis of Roman civil and penal law, and its evolution.
Better contextualise the distinctive modality with which the law was
written in the ancient world, with reference in particular to the
administration of the Roman penal Code.
Skills
Students will be able: to reconstruct legal cases with greater sensitivity.
To appreciate the importance of the issue of juridical tradition and how
the law is renewed by "managed wisdom".
The passage from a monarchy to a republic and the struggle between the
plebes and the patricians. The legislative decemvirate and The Twelve
Tables. The republican Constitution. The sources of law in the imperial
period. Absolute monarchy. Post-classical law. The Justinian Code. The
law and criminal trials.
Abilities
Students will: increase the knowledge of Roman law already gained
through the analysis of Roman civil and penal law, and its evolution.
Better contextualise the distinctive modality with which the law was
written in the ancient world, with reference in particular to the
administration of the Roman penal Code.
Skills
Students will be able: to reconstruct legal cases with greater sensitivity.
To appreciate the importance of the issue of juridical tradition and how
the law is renewed by "managed wisdom".