0055410 - HISTORY OF LAW II

Italian

Main subjects: democracy, ancient and modern; the problem of the political representation; the tension between liberty and equality; the ‘struggle for rights’; the elitist theories; rethinking democracy in the ‘totalitarian era’; constitutional democracy after the second world war.

Notes from the lectures; or G. Fassò, Storia della filosofia del diritto - vol. III (Ottocento e Novecento), ed. aggiornata a cura di C. Faralli, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006.

Developing the capacity to see the connection between law and society.

Lectures

Oral examination

The course deals with the origins and developments of representative democracy.