00536 - Institutes in Roman Law (R-Z)

Learning outcomes

The   course   is proposed to present ,   through   a   rerun   balanced  making   exposure   it is   to   the   historical   evolution  that   to   the   dogmatic   canons ,   to present a   legal  grammar   of   base   and   the   essential   slight knowledge   for   the   best   understanding   of   our   contemporary private law   and   the   other   national   or “ transnational ”  legal systems  that   in   some   way   they are recalled   or   they will be recalled   in the long run   and  complex   historical   experience   that   is descendant of   the  Roman  Law .

Course contents

The course will be articulated in two connected parts:   the first part offers a historical perspective and the second a dogmatic one.   The first will supply the historical coordinates of the roman legal experience  from   its   origin   until  to the epoch of Justinian. In this context, will be analysed the evolution of the concept of law and its classifications ( ius naturale ,  ius civile ,  ius gentium ); the history of the pontifical and secular jurisprudence and its role on the law development; the relation between  ius civile  and  ius honorarium ;  the legislative enactments of the emperors in various forms; the vulgar law and post-classical sources; the codes in late antiquity. Special attention will be given to the Justinian age and to the compilation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis, which represents an experience of extraordinary importance for the world legal history. In detail: the figure of Justinian and his main collaborators; the first and the second Code; the Digest and the theories about his compilation; the Institutes; the Novels and their collections; the relation between Justinian law and classical law; the attention of the emperor to the theological problems and religious policy; the reform of the state between reconquest and routine., the concept of law  and its classifications  (ius naturale , ius civile , ius gentium ); .    The second part will take into consideration the fundamental institutes of Roman private law. The analysis of the law of persons will focus on the legal regulation of slavery in its historical evolution, the emergence of concepts of legal capacity and capacity to act, the problems related to the birth and death of an individual, the features and privileges of Roman citizenship and the effects of his grant to all the inhabitants of the empire. Special attention will be given to the singularity of Roman family centred on the figure of the pater familias; the marriage, the divorce and de facto unions; the legal status of children and the legitimation; the gradual emergence of a patrimonial autonomy of the descendents and the connected institutions; adoption and arrogation; guardianship and care. The part which regards the real rights will take into consideration the characteristics of the quiritarian ownership and the other types of ownership known in Roman law; the problems concerning the modes of original and derivative acquisition; the subordinate real rights and the possession. The law of obligations will begin from the concept of obligation and its sources. It will be analysed various types of obligations, the performance, the non-performance and its consequences. It will be analysed the origin of the concept of contract and the single figures of typical contracts in their division into four parts (real, verbal, literal, consensual). As regards the successions, it will be presented the basic concepts: the general notions, to the various kinds of the succession and their relations, the testament, the legacies. Also it will be traced the evolution of the Roman civil procedure in its principal forms: the legis actiones , the formulary system and the cognitio extra ordinem . In this context more attention will be dedicated to the relation between substantive law and trial, the various kinds of actions and the role of praetor.

Readings/Bibliography

PROGRAM  ATTENDING STUDENTS

Reference manuals will be announced in class


PROGRAM NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS
 
INTRODUCTORY PART
 
The students will have to prepare themselves,to choice, one of these two manuals :
D. DALLA,  Introduzione a un corso romanistico, 4° ed., Giappichelli, Torino, 2004, pp. 158.
 The paragraphs in smaller character and the chapter XIV  c an   be   omitted.

RENZO LAMBERTINI,  Introduzione allo studio esegetico del diritto romano, Clueb Editore, 2005.

 
GENERAL SECTION:
 

D. DALLA, R. LAMBERTINI, Istituzioni di diritto romano, 3° ed., Giappichelli, Torino, 2006

The attending students will also be able to omit:  cap. II par. 9; cap. III parr. 11, 14; cap IV; cap. V parr. 9, 12, 15; cap. VI parr. 22, 26; cap. VII parr. 8, 12. 

SPECIAL SECTION:
 
ULRICH MANTHE,  Storia del diritto privato romano, Translation by Filippo Briguglio, Pref. by Francesco Galgano, Il Mulino Editore, Bologna 2010, pp. 144. 
 

Teaching methods

We remind that the lessons will take place during the first semester, therefore the students that obtain the attendance certificate in the current academic year, will be able to take the exam from the beginning of January, in 2017.

There are no preparatory courses for this course.

Guidelines for the international students within the Socrates-Erasmus programme
A specific programme for the international students within the Socrate-Erasmus programme will be indicated during a special meeting, the date of which will be set up at the beginning of the semester.

Assessment methods

The final exam consists of an oral examination.

Teaching tools

The consultation of Gaius and Justinian's Institutes  is a useful complement (translation E. NARDI, Istituzioni di diritto romano, voll. A e B, Milano, Giuffré, 1973-75).  During   the   Course   of   the   lessons   a  program   of   encounters   for   seminaries     will be established   by   the   Teacher .

Office hours

See the website of Filippo Briguglio