AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

form of comparative legal systems

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Introduction on civil law and common law legal orders. Law history of the two areas and legal terminology in both ancient and modern world; with attention to the legal terms most used by EU legislation or in their preparatory works.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, seminars and eventual students work in depth study

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The second part of the course shall focuse on the common law developing in the USA. Other lectures will deepen legal orders outside the western legal tradition, like Chinese law and Islamic law, thanks to speeches given by experts in those fields. Legal sources (especially judgments) will be studied in their own languages

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Attendance students

Notes and material on aulaweb, plus V. Varano – V. Barsotti, La tradizione giuridica occidentale, vol. I, Testo e materiali per un confronto civil law common law, 5° ed., Torino, 2014, ch. III and V (addendums excluded)

R. Cavalieri (cur.), Diritto dell’Asia Orientale, 2° ed, Venezia, 2009, pp. 1 – 117

In employment students
V. Varano – V. Barsotti, La tradizione giuridica occidentale, vol. I, Testo e materiali per un confronto civil law common law, 5° ed., Torino, 2014, ch. III and V (addendums excluded)

R. Cavalieri (cur.), Diritto dell’Asia Orientale, 2° ed, Venezia, 2009

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

FRANCESCA BRUNETTA D'USSEAUX (President)

UMBERTO DE MAGISTRIS

ELENA ANNA GRASSO

MATTEO PATRONE

ANDREA PERELLI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

I semester from September, 18th to December, 7th 2017 (12 weeks)
II semester from February, 26th to May, 18th 2018 (12 weeks)

Class schedule

COMPARISON OF LEGAL AND OTHER SYSTEMS A

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Attendance students will take two written texts; the first one in December 2017, on the first semester program, the second in May 2018, on the second semester program. Texts will be on lectures, integrated by depth-in specific topics and by the materials used for the lectures (you can find it on aulaweb).

Final mark will be the average of marks taken in the two texts, but the professor can rise it up in cases of very good performances.

For in employment students there will be an oral test (based on textbook) on the exam sessions indicated.

To attend the exam, it is mandatory to enroll (at least 48h before the session) following the Athenaeum on-line process.

Exam schedule