PHILOSOPHY OF LAW A - C

IUS/20 - 10 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

SALVATORE AMATO


Learning Objectives

Knowledge and understanding

The lectures are devoted to develop the critical skills of knowledge and analysis of the genesis and of the constructive and functioning modalities of the order of the legal discourse in connection with other scientific fields (ethical, political, economical).

Skill applying knowledge and understanding

The philosophical analysis on the developments of the structure of modern law could be applied both within the interpretative processes of single norms and within the more general framework of the relationship between society and institutions, for example in relation to the principle of legality, to the protection of fundamental rights and to the relationship between rule of law and democracy.



Detailed Course Content

The matter of the course is to analyse the origin, the features and the trends of contemporary law.

  1. The origin of modern State

2 . The rule of law



Textbook Information

Books for students who attend the lectures:

S. AMATO, Dentro il diritto, Torino, Giappichelli, 2016 (esclusi gli ultimi due capitoli).

Books for students who don’t attend the lectures

Due a scelta, tra:

S. AMATO, Dentro il diritto, Torino, Giappichelli, 2016, pp. 144

B. MONTANARI (a cura di), Luoghi della filosofia del diritto, Torino, Giappichelli, 2012 di cui sono obbligatori solo i seguenti capitoli: Giustizia (pp.53-98), Politica e processo (99-116) Interpretazione e logica giudiziaria (pp.117-144), Libertà, Responsabilità, legge(pp. 171-216), 6 (pp.211-232),, Sovranità (pp.313-338), Governance (pp. 237-264) - complessivamente pp. 190

F. D'AGOSTINO, Corso breve di filosofia del diritto, Torino, Giappichelli, 2011, pp. 160

(L’esame verterà, quindi, complessivamente su due testi tra i quattro suindicati)




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