20101007 - PHILOSOPHY OF THE LAW

The course aims at the following learning objectives:
a) being familiar with the main authors and theories which have influenced contemporary legal culture; b) to acquire competences in relation to the main concepts of legal theory; c) to develop a critical approach to legal knowledge and culture.

Curriculum

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Programme

The course will focus on the conflict between different philosophical models of interpreting law and criminal law in particular. The teaching objectives are: a) to provide students with the theoretical tools necessary for the deep analysis of the legal system, with a focus on criminal law; b) to allow them to orient themselves in the panorama of philosophical and theoretical reflection on criminal law, through an analytical exposition of the theory of guarantee, starting from Cesare Beccaria.
Finally, attention will be paid to the great questions around punishment: why, who, how and when to punish.

Core Documentation

The programme consists of 4 texts, all of which must be studied, including introductions and commentaries

1) Cesare Beccaria, Dei delitti e delle pene, (a cura di Patrizio Gonnella e Susanna Marietti), Giappichelli, seconda edizione con un saggio introduttivo di Luigi Ferrajoli, 2024
2) Dario Ippolito. Lo spirito del garantismo. Montesquieu e il potere di punire. Donzelli, 2021.
3) Sofocle, Antigone, traduzione di Massimo Cacciari, Einaudi, 2007
4) Norberto Bobbio, Giusnaturalismo e positivismo giuridico, Editori Laterza, 2011

Type of delivery of the course

The course includes lectures and seminars

Attendance

Frequency is recommended

Type of evaluation

Evaluation, by oral examination, will be at the end of the course based on the study of the indicated texts. Attendance is important to understand the books. Attendees will have access to a written exemption test.

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Mutuazione: 20101007 FILOSOFIA DEL DIRITTO in Scienze dei servizi giuridici L-14 R A - Z GONNELLA PATRIZIO

Programme

The course will focus on the conflict between different philosophical models of interpreting law and criminal law in particular. The teaching objectives are: a) to provide students with the theoretical tools necessary for the deep analysis of the legal system, with a focus on criminal law; b) to allow them to orient themselves in the panorama of philosophical and theoretical reflection on criminal law, through an analytical exposition of the theory of guarantee, starting from Cesare Beccaria.
Finally, attention will be paid to the great questions around punishment: why, who, how and when to punish.

Core Documentation

The programme consists of 4 texts, all of which must be studied, including introductions and commentaries

1) Cesare Beccaria, Dei delitti e delle pene, (a cura di Patrizio Gonnella e Susanna Marietti), Giappichelli, seconda edizione con un saggio introduttivo di Luigi Ferrajoli, 2024
2) Dario Ippolito. Lo spirito del garantismo. Montesquieu e il potere di punire. Donzelli, 2021.
3) Sofocle, Antigone, traduzione di Massimo Cacciari, Einaudi, 2007
4) Norberto Bobbio, Giusnaturalismo e positivismo giuridico, Editori Laterza, 2011

Type of delivery of the course

The course includes lectures and seminars

Attendance

Frequency is recommended

Type of evaluation

Evaluation, by oral examination, will be at the end of the course based on the study of the indicated texts. Attendance is important to understand the books. Attendees will have access to a written exemption test.