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Single cycle degree course 5 years in
Law
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Law, Politics and International Studies

ROMAN LAW
cod. 07869

Academic year 2016/17
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Salvatore PULIATTI
Academic discipline
Diritto romano e diritti dell'antichità (IUS/18)
Field
Storico-giuridico
Type of training activity
Basic
36 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
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Learning objectives

The course aims to introduce the student to the jurisprudential elaboration of the law through the comments of Roman sources.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The Roman legal system appears to be case based, alien to abstractions, based on the analysis of the individual cases at issue and basically oriented to avoid theoretical deep analysis.
Roman law was developed through a method that was very far from the axiomatic and deductive methodology typical of late natural law, however, to make a bridge between the cases and the system, there was the Roman jurisprudence, which had been able to extract general principles from the individual cases, and was therefore capable of creating a scientifically ordered system. A key contribution in this process of rational development was given by procedural techniques. What emerged was a unique system that had its roots in a class of lawyers.
Based on these premises, the course aims, first, to deepen the links between the cases and the systematic trends in that particular area of private law which is the law of succession. More specifically, it will be first studied the inheritance system from ancient times up to the Justinian era, through the constant reading of jurisprudential sources. Secondly, it will be studied the work of the jurist Callistratus dedicated to the new procedural order, in an attempt to bring organization into a matter that was still fluid and in need of being processed.

Full programme

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Bibliography

S. Puliatti, La successione ereditaria in diritto romano. Profili, Giappichelli, Torino, 2015 (to be printed)
S. Puliatti, I libri de cognitionibus di Callistrato (to be printed)

Teaching methods

Traditional lectures

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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