FOUNDATIONS OF LAW
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The examination consists of an oral interview aimed at ascertaining the acquisition and correct understanding of the course content. A question will be formulated on the content of each of the main authors in the programme, in respect of which knowledge of the subject, expository ability and capacity for critical analysis will be assessed. The final grade will take into account the accuracy and quality of the answers as well as the communicative ability and the ability to adequately motivate statements, analyses and judgements shown during the interview.
Starting from the study of the evolution of legal systems, the course will analyse the foundations of law.
A careful investigation will be made into the different forms of legal communication, how law ‘speaks’ and manifests itself. The final objective is to offer tools for analysis, evaluation and comparison of the proposed topics.
The expected learning outcomes therefore include the ability to apply and interpret the accumulated historical-legal knowledge, in order to develop skills to achieve, thanks to the acquired tools (information, theories, interpretations), the ability to criticise and analyse legal, journalistic and opinion texts.
The course will cover the evolution of legal communication both verbally and extra-verbally (semiotics of norm and punishment). It will analyse the way in which political power has succeeded in communicating its intentions for the legal regulation of society at key moments in history: the Greco-Roman world; the Roman-Christian world; the Enlightenment revolution; the introduction of codictic collections; current law. The method also includes the illustrative analysis of actual trials.
In detail, the following will be dealt with:
1) Rhetoric and legal language
2) Constitutional principles
3) Communication law and censorship
4) The history of European law
5) The role of the Corpus Iuris in Europe
6) The Enlightenment Revolution and Cesare Beccaria's treatise ‘Of Crimes and Punishments
7) The Trial, Sanctions and Punishments
8) Power and the Death Penalty in Greece
9) Power and the death penalty in Rome.
The activities will be carried out by means of frontal lessons, in which the lecturer will illustrate the contents of the course, requesting the participation of the students through exercises, viewing, listening to and commenting on author's texts; dialogue and confrontation with the class through the analysis and criticism of the themes proposed.
The use of audio and video multimedia tools is envisaged.
Students are received by appointment