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Comparative Law in a Global Context
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Comparative Law in a Global Context
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Anno accademico 2018/2019
- Codice dell'attività didattica
- CPS0373A
- Docente
- Prof. Domenico Francavilla (Titolare dell'insegnamento)
- Insegnamento integrato
- Corso di studi
- Master's Degree Course in Area and global studies for international cooperation
- Anno
- 1° anno
- Tipologia
- Caratterizzante
- Crediti/Valenza
- 3
- SSD dell'attività didattica
- IUS/02 - diritto privato comparato
- Modalità di erogazione
- Tradizionale
- Lingua di insegnamento
- Inglese
- Modalità di frequenza
- Facoltativa
- Tipologia d'esame
- Scritto
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Sommario insegnamento
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Obiettivi formativi
The course aims at enabling students to understand the interaction of different legal orders, the main features of contemporary legal systems and the dynamics of legal transplants, in order to be aware of the impact of the legal dimension of current global issues on international cooperation.
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Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
Students should achieve a good knowledge of the interaction of different kinds of law at the global and local level, of legal diversity and its impact on the protection of fundamental rights.
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Modalità di insegnamento
The course will be taught through frontal lectures as well as through interactive lectures. Reference documents will be distributed or projected in class to stimulate debate. Experts in specific fields will be invited as speakers.
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Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
Written exam (1 open question out of the 2 proposed). Grades will be expressed in /30 taking into account extent and accuracy of knowledge of the subject, quality of legal reasoning, ability to deal with the proposed issue in a coherent way.
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Programma
The course will focus on the interaction between different legal orders at the international, national and local level, by analysing the origin and diffusion of rules and principles. Methodological issues of comparative law will be also discussed, with particular reference to legal transplants, post-colonial legal studies, Law & Development and Law & Society movements. The course will also serve as a short introduction to main features of the legal systems in Africa, Asia and America, which will be analysed in the second year.
Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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For students regularly attending class:
a) Menski, Werner F., Comparative Law in a Global Contex: the Legal Systems of Asia and Africa, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006. Only Part I, pp. 25-128 and pp. 173-190.
[the book is also available online through library services; for more information contact domenico.francavilla@unito.it]
b) class materials
For students not regularly attending class:
a) Menski, Werner F., Comparative Law in a Global Contex: the Legal Systems of Asia and Africa, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006. Only Part I, pp. 25-128 and pp. 173-190.
[the book is also available online through library services; for more information contact domenico.francavilla@unito.it]
b) Lee, Yong-Shik (2017) "General Theory of Law and Development," Cornell International Law Journal: Vol. 50 : No. 3 , Article 2. only pp. 416-435 Available at: https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cilj/vol50/iss3/2
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