Unit COMPARATIVE LEGAL SYSTEMS
- Course
- Law
- Study-unit Code
- A000039
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Giovanni Marini
- Teachers
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- Giovanni Marini
- Hours
- 48 ore - Giovanni Marini
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Comparatistico
- Academic discipline
- IUS/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course aims to offer students, in the first place, the indispensable 'technical' detailed information on doctrinal styles, operating rules, arguments and conceptual schemes in the main experiences of Western and non-Western legal tradition; secondly, it aims to offer a vision of the transnational and dynamic nature of most legal discourses.
- Reference texts
- Reference texts in English (foreign students):
P. GLENN, Legal Traditions of the World. Sustainable diversity in Law, Oxford University Press, 2014
In addition, all the materials and readings which, together with the jurisprudential cases, will be uploaded as teaching materials on the UNISTUDIUM website of the course will in any case be an integral part of the program. - Educational objectives
- The course aims, based on the most recent methodological acquisitions of comparative analysis, to develop:
- the ability to orient oneself in multilevel systems, that is, characterized by the pluralism of orders, rules and interpretations;
- critical knowledge of the various taxonomies of private law in order to evaluate their historical relativity and the objectives that have been reached in other systems with their use;
- the way in which similarities and differences have been outlined and what the strategies and ideological projects of such legal discourses can be. - Prerequisites
- Teaching methods
- frontal classes, tests and seminars
- Other information
- Attendance is optional, but strongly recommended
- Learning verification modality
- The final exam consists of an oral examination in order to assess, together with their knowledge of the legal data, the logical-legal ability and appropriateness of the legal language. The duration of the examination varies according to the performance of the query.
- Extended program
- In contemporary comparative law analysis, there has been an increasing emphasis on legal traditions which replaced a previous approach in terms of legal families and legal systems. Tradition plays a crucial role, marking a boundary in a much stronger way than mere difference when we compare and contrast systems. As such the notion of tradition is the basis for a set of different arguments when we set out to discuss, reform or harmonize different systems. The course will show how a tradition can work in the actual process of integration to limit or resist harmonization, to slow down its process or to minimize its impact.