90034 - History of Modern and Contemporary Justice (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students will demonstrate an understanding of the intense interaction between law and the religious and political cultures developing in the late modern and contemporary periods; they will be able to identify and critically evaluate the processes of cultural transfer; they will be familiar with the legal and theological vocabulary and know how to contextualise its expressions in different historical periods. Students will be able to give narrative form to the results of their own research, using the technical language of the discipline appropriately. At the end of the course, students will be able to analyse the functioning of justice from a historical perspective; they will know how to collect, catalogue, comment on and use legal and judicial sources in an appropriate way to solve problems of historical research. They will be able to organise complex information coherently; they will be able to use juridical language appropriately and knowingly.

Course contents

The course will be devoted to the history of criminal justice in Europe from the late sixteenth to the twenty-first century. In addition to the treatment of the judiciary in common law and continental law systems, particular emphasis will be placed on the procedural elements, their impact on public opinion and the use that political power itself has made since the French revolution.

Readings/Bibliography

Non attending students:

1) Le danze di Clio e Astrea, a cura di A.A. Cassi, Torino, Giappichelli, 2023, pp. 168-331

2) C. De Pascale, Giustizia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010;

3) G. Alessi, Il processo penale. Profilo storico, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011

4) A text among the following:

P. Prodi, Una storia della giustizia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015, capitoli VII, VIII e IX

G. Tarello, Storia della cultura giuridica moderna: assolutismo e codificazione del diritto, Bologna, il Mulino, 2012, capitoli V-IX;

La libertà attraverso il diritto. Illuminismo giuridico e questione penale, a cura di D. Ippolito, Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2014;

M. Foucault, Sorvegliare e punire: nascita della prigione, Torino, Einaudi, 2014;

C. Magoni, Le pour et le contre. Il processo di Luigi XVI di fronte all'opinione pubblica, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2014;

M. Sbriccoli, La penalistica civile. Teorie e ideologie del diritto penale nell'Italia unita, in Stato e cultura giuridica in Italia dall'Unità alla Repubblica, a cura di A. Schiavone, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1990, pp. 147-232;

Il diritto del duce. Giustizia e repressione nell'Italia fascita, a cura di L. Lacchè, Roma, Donzelli, 2015

L. P. D'Alessandro, Giustizia fascista. Storia del Tribunale speciale (1926-1943), Bologna, il Mulino, 2020

Storia, verità, giustizia: i crimini del XX secolo, a cura di M. Flores, Milano, B. Mondadori, 2009

Processi politici, a cura di G. Fabre, Bologa, Il Mulino, 2019

Giustizia straordinaria tra fascismo e democrazia: i processi presso le Corti di assise e i tribunali militari, a cura di C. Nubola, P. Pezzino, T. Rovatti, Bologna, il Mulino, 2019.

M. Florez, M. Franzinelli. Conflitto fra poteri. Magistratuta, politica e processi nell'Italia repubblicana, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2024 (due capitoli a scelta)

Attending students have to agree the bibliography with the professor.

Teaching methods

The course is based on lectures

Assessment methods

,The assessment is designed to ascertain the in-depth knowledge of the particular laws and social practices of monarchies and the student's ability to analyze it historically.

Students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending.

For students not attending the test is oral and is based on the reading of the books listed in the "Texts".

The evaluation of the oral examination will depend on the correctness of contents, of the design and language used in answering the questions,

Students attending must instead prepare a dissertation (maximum 50,000 characters) on a topic related to the course or to the integrated course (in this case agreed with the two teachers), on the basis of sources and bibliography suggested by them.

The evaluation fo the paper will consider the student's capacity to make use of sources and bibliography related to the select topic. Students who demonstrate to have a global ooutlook and a good design of the selected topic and the capacity to use an appropriate language, will receive an excellent evaulation.

Students who write a paper only based on the existing bibliography will receive an adeqaue evaluation.

This course (6CFU) is part of the integrated course "History of Justice C.I. LM".

Students enrolled in the course as part of an Integrated Course (I.C.) must pass the examination of both parts on the same day (the final grade will be the arithmetic average of the marks obtained in the two parts, "History of justice from the late Middle Ages to the early modern age" and "History of modern and contemporary justice”).

Exam sessions are scheduled for the following months of the academic year:

September for all students

November for all students

January for all students

March for all students

May or June for all studentes

July for all students

Students who require specific services and adaptations to teaching activities due to a disability or specific learning disorders (SLD), must first contact the appropriate office: https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students

 

Office hours

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