STORIA DEL DIRITTO ROMANO
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It is demanded the elementary acquaintance of the political-social history of Rome
The examination in the end-of-course appeals is a mandatory oral exam, with open questions.
The students could participate to an optional written exam. The students that will pass the optional examination, in the end-of-course appeals will be study the remaining part of the program.
Course objectives and learning outcomes
The course aims at the institutional knowledge of public Roman law.
More in detail, the following objectives are pursued:
- knowledge of the constitutional arrangements of Roman world;
- knowledge of the historical events that have affected the Roman world;
- awareness of the historicity of the law, such as intellectual and social phenomenon;
- acquisition and mastery of the vocabulary of institutions on the basis of Roman public law;
- ability to exhibit with technical language and logical and systematic discipline of legal institutions of the Roman public law
The course program will focus on the following subjects:
A. the origins of Rome – the monarchic age; B. the republican constitution; C. the Principate; D. the Later Empire; E. Justinian and the Corpus Iuris Civilis.
1. The Monarchy
- Rex
- Consilium patrum
- Comitia curiata
- The priestly colleges
- Mores maiorum and leges regiae curiatae
- The Etruscan Monarchy
- The fall of the Monarchy
2. The Republic
- Republican events until the XII Tabulae
- Decemviral Code
- Lex Canuleia and tribuni militum
- Leges Liciniae Sextiae
- Consules
- Praetor and iurisdictio
- Edictum praetoris, ius honorarium and ius civilis
- Dictator and magister equitum
- Censores
- Aediles, quaestores
- Tribuni plebis
- Senatus
- Comitia centuriata and comitia tributa
- Concilia plebis tributa
- The end of the Republic
3. The Principality
- The constitutional forms of Principality
- The figure of Princeps
- Constitutiones principis
- 1st Century Jurists lawyers and schools of law
- 2st Century Jurists
- 3st Century Jurists
- Imperial bureaucracy and Consilium Principis
- Constitutio Antoniniana
4. The Dominant
- Diocletian reform
- The innovations of Constantine
- The figure of Emperor
- Leges generales and leges speciales
- Collections of leges (Codices), collections of iura, 'mixed' collections of leges and iura
- The Roman Barbaric Laws
5. The Justinian and Byzantine Age
- The Life and Career of Justinian
- The Kingdom of Justinian
- Corpus Iuris Civilis
a) Novus Codex
b) Institutiones
c) Digesta
d) Codex repetitae praelectionis
- Novellae Iustiniani
- The Byzantine Age
The suggested textbooks are:
G. Grosso, Lezioni di storia del diritto romano, Torino, Giappichelli
and
G. Poma (a cura di), La storia antica. Metodi e fonti per lo studio, Bologna, Il Mulino 2016.
The course is carried out in the second semester. The didactic activity is hoped to be done through frontal
lessons (for a total number of 50 hours), otherwise, if health conditions do not allow, it will be done through lessons using the 'teams meeting' platform and/or through registered lessons and power-points loaded on the e-learning platform of teaching).
Office hours
Prof. Paolo Lepore will meet students on the basis of weekly calendar. Changes in office hours will be shown in the teacher's homepage.
Contact hours
Hyperlink to the page of the times and locations of the Cd.
Exam sessions
Hyperlink to the appeals board.