03923 - General Law Theory

Academic Year 2016/2017

  • Docente: Silvia Vida
  • Credits: 7
  • SSD: IUS/20
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Silvia Vida (Modulo 1) Silvia Vida (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0660)

    Also valid for Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0660)

Learning outcomes

The course aims at introducing to the global justice debate, a multifaceted subject lying at the crossroads between philosophy of law, metaethics, and the study of international institutions while focusing on possible justifications, as well as on the shortcomings, of present legal arrangements at the transnational, international and global levels.

Course contents

Topics covered:

"domestic", international and global justice; universalism and cosmopolitanism; global egualitarianism; global justice and Avant-garde political Agency.

Readings/Bibliography

Attending and non-attending students:

Textbooks:

1. R. Dworkin, Giustizia per i ricci, Fletrinelli, Milano: 2013

2. T. Nagel, E' possibile una giustizia globale?, Laterza, Roma-Bari: 2009

3. L. Ypi, Stato e avanguardie cosmopolitiche, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2016

Teaching methods

The course's format will consist in reading and commenting selected texts in class. It may also have seminars.

Assessment methods

There will be an oral exam that students can take starting from January 2017.

Office hours

See the website of Silvia Vida