Learning objectives
Bringing together the content and goals inherent in various aspects of theory, history of law, national positive law and comparative law but without taking as its basis any of the above disciplines, this course will focus on the institutions and structures most clearly identifiable as “fundamental” in the evolution of certain juridical systems The goal is to reconstruct and follow a line of thought that unfolds the legal process through what is constant in it and what changes, as a response in terms of praxis, habit, ritual, procedures, institutions, apparatuses and norms of social interests first and foremost, but also organised states and basic needs of man, on the basis of the stage of development and complexity of their public and private relationships.
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Course unit content
<br />Tying together the threads of history, above and beyond the special aspects of normative processes and specific institutional contexts, through a historical-comparative approach, this course will identify and delineate the “fundamentals of European law” from the double standpoint of legal experience in conflict resolution and in the identification of the norms and articulated structure of institutions that basically can be traced back to the conceptual framework so ably created under Roman law.
Full programme
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Bibliography
<br />P. Stein, I fondamenti del diritto europeo, Milano, Giuffre, 1995; <br />P. Stein, Il diritto romano nella storia europea, R. Cortina Editore, Milano, 2001 (Chap. 1 and 4 only)
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