HISTORY OF ROMAN JURISPRUDENCE
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- Academic year
- 2020/2021
- Teacher
- VINCENZO SCARANO USSANI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- IUS/18
Training objectives
- The political setting and the legal theory of the most important jurists in Hadrian's council.
Main knowledge: Knowledge of the thought and political role of L. Neratius Priscus; Knowledge of the thought and political role of Juventius Celsus the Younger ; knowledge of the thought and the political role of Salvius Iulianus
Main skills: ability to rebuild the regulatory and legal framework between the reign of Nerva and that of Hadrian; critical analysis of the matter. Prerequisites
- A good basic knowledge, possibly with knowledge of ancient history and of Roman cultural history. To have passed one of the preparatory exams (Private Law , Constitutional Law , Institutions of Roman law or History of Roman law) .
Course programme
- Biography, political engagement and the conception of the law by Lucius Neratius Priscus (14 hours), Iuventius Celsus filius (13 hours), Salvius Iulianus (13 hours), the most important jurists in Hadrian's council.
Didactic methods
- lessons that illustrate the entire content of the program with a reading and discussion of the most important texts from which one can derive scientific, cultural and political development of the three great Hadrian jurists.
Learning assessment procedures
- Oral exam, with open questions, the total duration of about thirty minutes.The number of questions is appropriate to assess the candidate's knowledge. The knowledge and critical understanding of the program's arguments are checked. The vote comes from the overall assessment of the answers given by the candidate.
Reference texts
- Scarano Ussani, Empiria e dogmi. La scuola proculiana fra Nerva e Adriano, Giappichelli, Torino, 1995;
Scarano Ussani, L''utilità e la certezza. Compiti e modelli del sapere giuridico in Salvio Giuliano, Giuffré, Milano 1987;
or as option:
Scarano Ussani, L''ars dei giuristi. Considerazioni sullo statuto epistemologico della giurisprudenza romana, Giappichelli, Torino, 1997;
S. Querzoli, Il sapere di Fiorentino. Etica, natura e logica nelle Institutiones, Loffredo, Napoli 1996.
