PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
cod. 00385

Academic year 2010/11
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Filosofia del diritto (IUS/20)
Field
Filosofico-giuridico
Type of training activity
Basic
54 hours
of face-to-face activities
9 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Learning objectives

The aim of the course is to provide the students with the knowledge of philosophical issues concerning the law: its reasons, its foundations, its aims, its functioning.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Law and justice; law and morality; natural law and social contract; law and liberty; rules and legal order; legal validity; rules and principles; legal interpretation; authority of law; justice as fairness.

Full programme

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Bibliography

A:
L’idea di giustizia da Platone a Rawls, a cura di S. Maffettone, S. Veca, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008:
- Parte prima: introduzione, Platone, Aristotele (pp. 5-26; 39-51; 58-62; 67-68);
- Parte seconda: introduzione, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Kant (pp. 73-83; 92-159; 174-184);
- Parte quarta: introduzione, Hart, Rawls (pp. 243-245; 290-303; 319-349);
and:
Il positivismo giuridico contemporaneo. Una antologia, a cura di A. Schiavello, V. Velluzzi, Torino, Giappichelli, 2005:
- Parte I: introduzione, Kelsen, Ross, Scarpelli (pp. 3-14; 18-47; 80-113);
- Parte II: introduzione, Dworkin (pp. 118-126; 131-135; 171-188);
- Parte III: introduzione, Hart, Raz (pp. 210-215; 220-224; 229-248; 286-297).

OR:
B:
G. PALOMBELLA, Filosofia del diritto, Padova, Cedam, 1996, pp. 13-338.

Teaching methods

Oral Lesson.

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral Exam.

Other information

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