Università Roma Tre

The main aim of the course is to grasp some general narratives of the history of legal practice and legal doctrines over a very long period. The knowledge of historical sources and historical contexts is necessary to build those general narratives. The course will deal with legislations and their political frameworks, some legal literature and some main figures of legal authors. On the base of these sources, some aspects of the legal institutions which were adopted in different historical periods will be presented.
The historical range of the course is very broad: it extends from late Antiquity to Middle Ages, to Modern and Contemporary eras.

Tamar Herzog, A Short History of European Law. The Last Two and Half Millennia, Harvard University Press, 2018

James Q. Whitman, The World Historical Significance of European Legal History: An Interim Report, in The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History, edited by Heikki Pihlajamäki, Markus D. Dubber, and Mark Godfrey Oxford University Press 2018

Other readings will be suggested during the course, and will form part of the compulsory materials for the exam.