B000154 - HISTORY OF MODERN CODIFICATIONS AND CONSTITUTIONS.

Italian

Legal historiography. The Medieval juridical order; British constitutionalism; Sovereignity; Natural law; Constitutionalism; The French and the American Revolution; the rule of law; main constitutional doctrines of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The legal thought in the Age of Enlightenment; the modern Code; the Napoleonic Code; the legal doctrine during XIX and XX centuries; the XIX century criminal codes; the XX century codes; the post-war period and the decodification process.

Students enrolled in the course “Servizi Giuridici”

Regular students
A) Class notes
B) S. Mannoni, Frontiere del diritto pubblico, Giuffrè, Milano 2004, pp. 1-171.
C) A. Aquarone, L’unificazione legislativa e i codici del 1865, Giuffrè, Milano (ristampa), pp.1-80.

Remote students
A) S. Mannoni, Frontiere del diritto pubblico, Giuffrè, Milano 2004, pp. 1-171.
B) G. Cazzetta, Codice civile e identità giuridica nazionale. Percorsi e appunti per una storia delle codificazioni moderne, Torino, Giappichelli, 2011, pp. 1-249.

Students enrolled in the course “Giurisprudenza Magistrale” (Optional course)

Regular students
A) Class notes
B) S. Mannoni, Frontiere del diritto pubblico, Giuffrè, Milano 2004, pp. 1-171.
C) A. Aquarone, L’unificazione legislativa e i codici del 1865, Giuffrè, Milano (ristampa), pp.1-80.

Remote students
A) S. Mannoni, Frontiere del diritto pubblico, Giuffrè, Milano 2004, pp. 1-171.
B) G. Cazzetta, Codice civile e identità giuridica nazionale. Percorsi e appunti per una storia delle codificazioni moderne, Torino, Giappichelli, 2011, pp. 1-249.

Knowledge
Historicity as a natural aspect of law.
Main elements of Medieval and modern juridical experiences.

Capabilities
Historicizing normative data.
Pointing out historical origins of juridical language.
Dealing with interdisciplinary character of juridical issues.

Skills
Sensibility to interpretative nature of the jurist’s activity. Relativity of juridical concepts and consciuosness of their historical roots.

Two different syllabus will be held in consideration of the frequency to the course: should the students decide to attend to the lessons, they would enroll in a separate list in view of the final test whose date will be communicated at the beginning of the course.

Lessons: 40 hours.

Final Test
Students, between the third and fourth year, will be required to draft a study plan including facultative subjects and other activities as well as the subject of the final test.

Oral Examination

The illuministic civil code; the revolutionary code; the napoleonic model of civil and criminal code; the legal absolutism in the age of liberalism: the legal doctrine in France and Italy during the XIX century; Savigny and the anti-codificatory tendencies during the XIX and XX centuries; Carrara and the emergence of a social question in the interpretation of Zanardelli criminal code; the jurisprudence of interests, naturalism and criminal sociologism; the BGB system; the I world war turning-point; the post-war period projects: the franco-italian contract code and the Ferri project; totalitarian civil and criminal law: the german Volksgesetzbuch and Pannunzio’s project for a general codification (Pannunzio’s project for a codification per principia); Arturo Rocco and Vincenzo Manzini: the “third school” lawyers; the elaboration of 1942 civil code; the theories of Emilio Betti, Filippo Vassalli, Encrico Finzi and Lorenzo Mossa; the 1942 civil code system between liberal tradition and mass society; the “fascist” codes in republican Italy according to Pugliatti’s theory; the post war period: the legal system between “decodification” and “recodification” process; towards a european civil and criminal code?

As far the part of the program devoted to the history of public law is conserned (twenty hours), it will be devoted to the history of internazional law and diplomatic relations since the Seven Year War to the Cold War.