Unit PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
- Course
- Legal services
- Study-unit Code
- A000710
- Curriculum
- Consulente del lavoro
- Teacher
- Tamar Pitch
- Teachers
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- Tamar Pitch
- Hours
- 0 ore - Tamar Pitch
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2017/18
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Filosofico-giuridico
- Academic discipline
- IUS/20
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course is divided in two parts:
the first on the legal theory;
the second one on the fundamental rights' theory. - Reference texts
- G. Pino, A. Schiavello, V. Villa (a cura di), Filosofia del diritto. Introduzione critica al pensiero giuridico e al diritto positivo, Giappichelli 2013, limited to I and II parts (pp. 3-253)
Stefano Anastasia, L'appello ai diritti. Diritti e ordinamenti nella modernità e dopo, Torino, Giappichelli, 2008 - Educational objectives
- In terms of knowledge acquired, at the end of the course students will be able to master issues and problems of theoretical discussion on the law
- Prerequisites
- Useful for better understanding of the content and learning objectives of the course is the basic knowledge of western history and philosophy as well as routinely taught in high schools.
- Teaching methods
- distance learning
- Learning verification modality
- The examination is held in oral form. The duration of the test varies according to its progress.
The exam is designed to test the knowledge of the subject, the ability to reason, the logicality of argumentation. - Extended program
- The course aims to provide students an introduction to the basic issues of legal theory and the knowledge of theories and policies on main topics of fundamental rights, such as to enable them to understand some of the most important issues that law is facing in the globalized world. In the first part of the course, students will be introduced to the legal language and to the fundamental issues of the philosophy of law (law and morality, law as language, the theory of interpretation, the theory of the legal system and the contemporary plurality of legal systems). The second part of the course is dedicated to the exposition and discussion of history, anthropology and philosophy of fundamental rights, highlighting the critical and unresolved issues emerged from human rights policies in Western countries than in the south of the world.