The course of Legal History aims at providing for a complex understanding of the relationship between law, society, economics, culture, and politics through time. The student will learn the basic development of law from the late antiquity to the 20th Century. The course will connect basic historical learning with specific legal-historical questioning, focussing mainly on the moments of crisis or renovation which determined the principal features of Western legal systems.
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materiale didattico
The historical range of the course is very broad: it extends from late Antiquity to Middle Ages, to Modern and Contempoary eras.
James Q. Whitman, The World Historical Significance of European Legal History: An Interim Report, in The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History, edited by Heikki Pihlajamäki, Markus D. Dubber, and Mark Godfrey Oxford University Press 2018
Other readings will be suggested during the course, and will form part of the compulsory materials for the exam.
Programma
The main aim of the course is to grasp some general narratives of the history of legal practice, legislations, and legal doctrines over a very long period. The knowledge of historical sources and historical contexts is necessary to build those general narratives. The course will deal with legislations and their political frameworks, some legal literature and some main figures of legal authors. Based on these sources, some aspects of the legal institutions adopted in different historical periods will be presented.The historical range of the course is very broad: it extends from late Antiquity to Middle Ages, to Modern and Contempoary eras.
Testi Adottati
Tamar Herzog, A Short History of European Law. The Last Two and Half Millennia, Harvard University Press, 2018James Q. Whitman, The World Historical Significance of European Legal History: An Interim Report, in The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History, edited by Heikki Pihlajamäki, Markus D. Dubber, and Mark Godfrey Oxford University Press 2018
Other readings will be suggested during the course, and will form part of the compulsory materials for the exam.
Modalità Erogazione
The course is taught in a "fllipped classroom" mode: students must prepare each lesson by following the recorded course found at https://www.canva.com/design/DAFAwNXEid0/kfFdHrrVtk3pnHDP2kO-kg/view?utm_content=DAFAwNXEid0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink e https://www.canva.com/design/DAFAwMe6HRI/vtAdQklq-J6U4eKLHUnDwQ/view?utm_content=DAFAwMe6HRI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink The first few slides include directions to the approximately 100 podcasts to listen to in preparation for the lessons. The lessons will be animated by the students with their questions and reflections. Podcasts are available independently from the slides on the major open audio platforms (Spotify, Google podcast, Apple podcast, ecc.)Modalità Frequenza
Attendance to ALL the lessons is strongly recommendedModalità Valutazione
Final evaluation is based 50 percent on participation and commitment during the course, and 50 percent on an oral final examination.