20110148 - 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

Canali

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme


The course is divided into three modules:
1) The first module concerns the development of legal philosophical concepts.
2) The second module concerns the concept of law and the theory of the legal system.
3) the third module provides and introduction to critical legal studies.



Core Documentation

Readings:
T. Casadei e F. Zanetti, Manuale di filosofia del diritto. Figure, categorie e contesti, Giappichelli, Torino 2019

Hans Kelsen, Lineamenti di dottrina pura del diritto, Einaudi (with the exclusion of the appendix)

M.G: Bernardini, O. Giolo, Teorie critiche del diritto, Pacini (students should read 6 essays)



teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

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.

Core Documentation

- L. FERRAJOLI, IL PARADIGMA GARANTISTA. FILOSOFIA E CRITICA DEL DIRITTO PENALE, EDITORIALE SCIENTIFICA, NAPOLI 2016 (seconda edizione).

- L. FERRAJOLI, IURA PARIA. I FONDAMENTI DELLA DEMOCRAZIA COSTITUZIONALE, EDITORIALE SCIENTIFICA, NAPOLI 2017 (seconda edizione).

- R. GUASTINI, FILOSOFIA DEL DIRITTO POSITIVO, GIAPPICHELLI, TORINO 2017.

- D. IPPOLITO, LO SPIRITO DEL GARANTISMO. MONTESQUIEU E IL POTERE DI PUNIRE, DONZELLI, ROMA 2021 (SECONDA EDIZIONE ACCRESCIUTA).



teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

The course will introduce the students to the central topics in the philosophy of law (such as the concept of norm, of legal system, of legal interpretation, of legal rights), from the perspective of the evolution of 'constitutionalism', or 'rule of law', from the XVIII century onwards.

Core Documentation

B. Celano, Lezioni di filosofia del diritto. Costituzionalismo, Stato di diritto, codificazione, positivismo giuridico, Giappichelli, Torino, 2a ed., 2021
G. Pino, Teoria analitica del diritto I. La norma giuridica, ETS, Pisa, 2016 (tranne cap. VIII)
G. Pino, Il costituzionalismo dei diritti. Struttura e limiti del costituzionalismo contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna, 2018

These texts are to be studied entirely (except where stated otherwise).

Type of delivery of the course

frontal classes, workshops

Attendance

attendance is not compulsory, but strongly recommended

Type of evaluation

written exam

Canali

teacher profile | teaching materials

Mutuazione: 20110148 FILOSOFIA DEL DIRITTO in GIURISPRUDENZA LMG/01 A - D RIGO ENRICA

Programme


The course is divided into three modules:
1) The first module concerns the development of legal philosophical concepts.
2) The second module concerns the concept of law and the theory of the legal system.
3) the third module provides and introduction to critical legal studies.



Core Documentation

Readings:
T. Casadei e F. Zanetti, Manuale di filosofia del diritto. Figure, categorie e contesti, Giappichelli, Torino 2019

Hans Kelsen, Lineamenti di dottrina pura del diritto, Einaudi (with the exclusion of the appendix)

M.G: Bernardini, O. Giolo, Teorie critiche del diritto, Pacini (students should read 6 essays)



teacher profile | teaching materials

Mutuazione: 20110148 FILOSOFIA DEL DIRITTO in GIURISPRUDENZA LMG/01 E - O IPPOLITO DARIO

Programme

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.

Core Documentation

- L. FERRAJOLI, IL PARADIGMA GARANTISTA. FILOSOFIA E CRITICA DEL DIRITTO PENALE, EDITORIALE SCIENTIFICA, NAPOLI 2016 (seconda edizione).

- L. FERRAJOLI, IURA PARIA. I FONDAMENTI DELLA DEMOCRAZIA COSTITUZIONALE, EDITORIALE SCIENTIFICA, NAPOLI 2017 (seconda edizione).

- R. GUASTINI, FILOSOFIA DEL DIRITTO POSITIVO, GIAPPICHELLI, TORINO 2017.

- D. IPPOLITO, LO SPIRITO DEL GARANTISMO. MONTESQUIEU E IL POTERE DI PUNIRE, DONZELLI, ROMA 2021 (SECONDA EDIZIONE ACCRESCIUTA).



teacher profile | teaching materials

Mutuazione: 20110148 FILOSOFIA DEL DIRITTO in GIURISPRUDENZA LMG/01 P - Z PINO GIORGIO

Programme

The course will introduce the students to the central topics in the philosophy of law (such as the concept of norm, of legal system, of legal interpretation, of legal rights), from the perspective of the evolution of 'constitutionalism', or 'rule of law', from the XVIII century onwards.

Core Documentation

B. Celano, Lezioni di filosofia del diritto. Costituzionalismo, Stato di diritto, codificazione, positivismo giuridico, Giappichelli, Torino, 2a ed., 2021
G. Pino, Teoria analitica del diritto I. La norma giuridica, ETS, Pisa, 2016 (tranne cap. VIII)
G. Pino, Il costituzionalismo dei diritti. Struttura e limiti del costituzionalismo contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna, 2018

These texts are to be studied entirely (except where stated otherwise).

Type of delivery of the course

frontal classes, workshops

Attendance

attendance is not compulsory, but strongly recommended

Type of evaluation

written exam