HISTORY OF MODERN LAW LM A – 2026-2027

 

Teacher: Prof. Alessandro Dani
E-mail: alessandro.dani@uniroma2.it
CFU: 6
Course code: 804002389
Degree: Master’s Degree “Scienze della Storia e del documento”
SSD: GIUR-16/A (ex IUS/19)
Course delivery modalities: In-presence
Language
: Italian

Pre-requisites: No prerequisites
Attendance: Optional
Assessment method: Oral examination
Period: 1st  term
Starting day: Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Class hours
Wednesday, 1.00 p.m. – 3.00 p.m., Professor’s Office (Building B, 4th floor, Room 17)
Thursday, 11.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m., Aula Roma
Friday, 9.00 a.m. -11.00 a.m., Professor’s Office (Building B, 4th floor, Room 17)
Program:
I) The institutional structures of the Italian States and the system of sources of law of the 16th-17th centuries will be analyzed, also in light of the works of the greatest Italian jurist of the 17th century, Giovanni Battista De Luca.
II) An overview of the legal literature of the modern age, of the schools and cultural trends of which it was an expression, will be illustrated. A particular focus will be on citizenship.
III) We will follow the emergence of critical positions towards the traditional legal order, from Ludovico Antonio Muratori to the Enlightenment, to then examine the reforms of the enlightened Absolutism of the late 18th century and the epochal turning point marked by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic codification.
Text books:
The students will have to choose between two sets of textbooks:

  1. M.R. Di Simone, Istituzioni e fonti normative in Italia dall’Antico regime al Fascismo, Torino, Giappichelli Editore, 2007, only pp. 3-141.
  2. A. Dani, Cittadinanze e appartenenze comunitarie. Appunti dai territori toscani e pontifici di Antico regime, Roma, Historia & Ius, 2021, available on line: https://www.historiaetius.eu/collana-di-studi.html.

or (alternatively):

  1. Tempi del diritto. Età medievale, moderna, contemporanea, coordinamento a cura di E. Tavilla, Torino, Giappichelli, 2022, only pp. 105-233.
  2. A. Dani, Cittadinanze e appartenenze comunitarie. Appunti dai territori toscani e pontifici di Antico regime, Roma, Historia & Ius, 2021, available on line: https://www.historiaetius.eu/collana-di-studi.html.

It is also possible to agree with the teacher on texts other than those indicated.

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