Unit SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF THE PROCESS

Course
Legal services
Study-unit Code
A002866
Curriculum
Law and technologies
Teacher
Eloisa Mura
Teachers
  • Eloisa Mura
Hours
  • 32 ore - Eloisa Mura
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2025
Offered
2025/26
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
The course tackles the matter of the salient aspects of criminal procedure from Middle Ages to contemporary age.
Reference texts
E. Dezza, Lezioni di storia del processo penale, Pavia University Press, Pavia, 2013.
http://archivio.paviauniversitypress.it/didattica/dezza_lezioni-spp_2013/dezza_lezioni-spp_2013.pdf
In addition:
C. Beccaria, Dei delitti e delle pene, 1764 (in any edition).
Educational objectives
The analysis of the forms of criminal justice will enable the student to understand the values and principles underlying the procedural model adopted, the nature of evidence, the power attributed to the judge, the guarantees granted or denied to the defendant, and the system of penalties.
Prerequisites
To understand the topics covered in the course and achieve the learning objectives, the student must possess basic elements of general culture and essential knowledge of medieval, modern and contemporary history.
Teaching methods
Lessons.
Other information
Foreign students participating in the Erasmus project will be able to take the exam by agreeing a special program with the teacher.
For students with DSA, appropriate compensatory tools and specific measures will be agreed individually.
For any further information, students can contact the teacher: 1) in the Department during office hours; 2) by email by writing to the institutional email address of the teacher.
Learning verification modality
Oral exam.
In order to evaluate the student's preparation, the following will be taken into account: 1) the notions acquired about the historical periodization, the evolution and the contents of legal thought and institutions; 2) the ability of critical analysis and reasoning in identifying the essential junctures of the historical path and the contents of the legal institutions studied; 3) the adequacy of the technical-legal language used in the presentation.
Extended program
The forms of criminal justice in the barbaric High Middle Ages. The Roman-canonical process. The penal repression of heresy. Roman and Spanish Inquisition. The great courts. Criminal practices. Enlightenment criticism and the legislation of eighteenth-century absolutism. The thoughts of Cesare Beccaria. Criminal law and trial after the French Revolution. The codification of law and criminal proceedings in Europe in the 19th century. Criminal law and trial during fascism.
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
Reduce inequalities.

SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF THE PROCESS

Code A002866
Location PERUGIA
CFU 2
Teacher Eloisa Mura
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline giuridiche
Sector IUS/19
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)

SCIENCE AND HISTORY OF THE PROCESS

Code A002866
Location PERUGIA
CFU 4
Teacher Eloisa Mura
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline giuridiche
Sector IUS/19
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)