INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH LAW
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2020/2021
- Teacher
- LAURENCE LUCETTE KLESTA
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- IUS/02
Training objectives
- This course, taught in French, provides an overview of the basis and peculiarities of French legal rules. Its overall purpose is to give students elements and criteria to discover another European legal culture using proper language.
Knowledges:
• Specifics of French legal rules
• Contextualisation of French legal culture
• Legal French
• Tools to address Italian and European law
Abilities:
• Analyse the ratio of French legal rules
• Identify converging and diverging areas with Italian and European law Prerequisites
- Knowledge of civil law’s basic issues and concepts (general principles, legal rules characteristics, sources of law).
French understanding. Course programme
- Lectures will be divided into three parts:
Parte I –Caracteristics of French law: The distinction between law and rights (22 hours)
Law : content and sources
The rights : content and sources
Parte II – Enforcement of French law (6 ore)
Identifying the proper French legal rule
Interpreting French legal rules : from the école de l’exégèse to “modern” criteria
Parte III – French law updating: from 1804 to 2016 (12 hours)
The code civil backstory with special regard to Jean Domat (mos geometricus)
The preliminary Portalis talk
Some essential code civil’s articles: 544 (ownership), 1101 (contract), 1382 (tort)
The 2016 reform: key changes and convergence line with Italian law. Didactic methods
- Lectures with ppt slides.
Internet action when dealing with special lecture’s features. Learning assessment procedures
- Attending students : oral exam relating to the course programme
Non attending students : written exam relating to the course programme with oral questions Reference texts
- A. Mirkovic – N. Deleuze, Introduction générale au droit, Studyrama, 2014
P. Deumier, Introduction générale au droit, LGDJ, 2è ed., 2013.
www.legifrance.fr
https://www.courdecassation.fr/
http://expocujas.univ-paris1.fr/Bicentenaire/default.htm
