The contents of the course feature the history of thought as it pertains to Roman Law. The study of this cultural phenomenon will take place through the analysis of the social role of protagonists of Roman Law through history: the pontifex, the republican aristocrat, advisor of the Prince, and imperial functionar.
FOR ATTENDANTS STUDENTS:
Notes of lessons.
FOR NON ATTENDANTS STUDENTS: C.Giachi-V. Marotta, Diritto e giurisprudenza in Roma antica, Carocci, Roma, 2012
Learning Objectives
The object of the course is to illustrate one of the form of production of social discipline that has characterized western juridicial thought: The elaboration of law by experts, the jurists.
Prerequisites
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Teaching Methods
Lectures
Further information
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Type of Assessment
Oral exam
Course program
Beginning with the good fortune of Roman Law and the tradition that posits it at the center of the development of modern western law, the so-called "second life" of Roman Law, we will look at the history of the scientific elaboration of law in Rome. This will be primarily the history of the protagonists of this development, the jurists themselves. From the work of the Pontifices, called upon to provide the necessary rules for the life of the community, to the response of the lay jurists; from the ranks of the republican aristocrats to the advisors to the prince; and, finally, to the functionaries of the late imperial bureaucracy; from an oral dimension to the revolution of writing and the construction of an authentic literary tradition. These processes will be analyzed in the political and institutional contexts in which they developed: the dialectic of political power and social hierarchy, from the ancient monarchy, by means of the republican structure, to the Principality and the Roman Imperial Laws.