Unit HISTORY OF MODERN CODIFICATIONS
- Course
- Law
- Study-unit Code
- A000284
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Ferdinando Treggiari
- Teachers
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- Ferdinando Treggiari
- Hours
- 28 ore - Ferdinando Treggiari
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Affini o integrative d.m.270/04
- Area
- Attività formative in ambiti disciplinari affini o integrativi a quelli di base e caratterizzanti, anche con riguardo alle culture di contesto e alla formazione interdisciplinare
- Academic discipline
- IUS/19
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- History of law in the modern and contemporary ages, with particular focus on the legal enlightenment and codifications.
- Reference texts
- A. Cavanna, Storia del diritto moderno in europa, vol. 2, Milano, Giuffrè, 2005, except pp. from 1 to 115 and from 359 to 409
- Educational objectives
- Through the examination of the transformations undergone by law in history, the course aims to foster in students an awareness of the development and also the relativity and development of ant legal phenomenon. This kind of approach to legal history, which isn't focused just only on notions and dates, aims to train the students to independence of judgment and to offer the right critical eye under which observe the developing and relativity of law.
- Prerequisites
- None
- Teaching methods
- Lessons
- Other information
- No further information
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exame. During the oral exam the student will be required to show that he/she knows and understands the historical evolution of the legal systems and institutions of the modern and contemporary ages. The student is expected to be able to independently analyse sources and relevant problems of history of law and to use the appropriate technical and legal vocabulary, thus proving that he/she has acquired the study method and the learning ability for carrying on, also independently, further study of the matter. The following evaluation criteria will be taken into account to assign the final grade, expressed in thirtieths: - knowledge and understanding of the historical and doctrinal sources (60%); appropriate use of the technical and legal vocabulary, ability to analyse and evaluate relevant sources and acquisition of the study method (20%); ability to orientate oneself in the diachronic context and to identify the historical perspective of the legal phenomenon (20%). Learning gaps concerning one or more notions or principles will lead to an insufficient evaluation, even in presence of a basic knowledge of the matter
- Extended program
- The end of the age of ius commune. Political absolutism and codification. Ideological foundations of law codification: Natural law and Enlightenment. Cesare Beccaria and the new criminal law. The first European codifications: Russian, Prussian, Austrian and Tuscan areas. The law of the French Revolution. The code civil