Course teached as: B027701 - STORIA DELLA COSTITUZIONE ROMANA 5-years Single Cycle Degree in LAW
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course aims to provide a general knowledge of Roman law and criminal trial, analyzed against the background of the institutional transformations of Rome, from the monarchical age to the late empire.
The final exam will be taken on the basis of the notes taken in class.
Non-attending students will take the exam on the basis of A. Petrucci, Roman public law course, Turin, Giappichelli, 2017, and B. Santalucia, Criminal justice in ancient Rome, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013.
Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide students with the tools to get to know a peculiar 'criminal system' and a 'procedural-criminal' system which, engaging in a legal experience in many ways still paradigmatic, allow to identify a constant development any legal experience: the influence exercised by political institutions in the transformations of criminal law systems.
Prerequisites
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Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons, exercises and conferences. Frontal teaching: total 42 hours. Particular attention will be paid to criminal law in general and to bribery in particular, with the examination of sources and literature, which will be distributed in copy to the students present.
Further information
Students who intend to attend the course must register within the second week of lessons, according to the teacher's indications.
Attendance at class will be verified through a roll call on a random basis.
Four absences will be admitted.
Type of Assessment
The verification of the learning will be substantiated in an oral test. In the oral exam, consisting of soliciting the student on a minimum of three different topics, the critical maturity of the student will be assessed in relation to the topics covered. In particular, knowledge of the history of Roman institutions will be assessed. The ability to understand interconnections between the different areas and the overall critical awareness achieved in relation to the course content will also be assessed.
The evaluation will be sufficient if at least two out of three answers are fully sufficient and if no gross errors or serious gaps emerge. The evaluation will be excellent if all three questions have a complete answer.
Course program
The aim of the program is to present the constitutional cornerstones of the judiciary system, with special attention to the continuous development of the structures of power over time, rethinking the traditional tripartition which seeks the succession of the monarchical, republican and dominated ages. The judiciary will appear as essential organs for the continuity of the political community: the moments of vitality, of crisis, of reorganization that cyclically knew the Roman constitution will be traced back to the main nodes of evolution and development of the political society that has seen the network shape over time of relationships on which the material constitution of Rome was built.