Università Roma Tre

The course aims at providing the students with the main private law categories through the study of the cases examined by the Roman jurists, as well as through the modern theories grounded on Roman sources. The lectures will focus on substantial and procedural Roman law; they will explain the elementary discipline of the institutes created by the Roman scientia iuris. The course also aims to encourage students to consider specific legal issues: students should become familiar with the methodological tools needed to apply theoretical knowledge to private law issues.

The main topic are:
- Sources (8 h)
- Trial (10 h)
- Facts, acts and legal acts (6 h)
- Individuals and family (2 h)
- Rights in rem and possession (6 h)
- Obligations (12 h)
- Donations (2 h)
- Inheritance law (2 h)

The main purpose of this course is to determine how and how far Roman law and other legal systems provided a framework, which influenced, and perhaps determined, economic development, social change and political evolution. Strictly related to this, the course addresses whether that development, change and evolution modified the content and procedures of Roman law and other ancient legal systems. Ultimately, how the use of legal evidence may lead to a better understanding of ancient societies, and vice versa.

M. MARRONE, Istituzioni di diritto romano, Palermo, 2006 (ed. Palumbo)

Background reading:
A. BURDESE, Manuale di diritto privato romano (4a ed.), Torino, 2006
Le Istituzioni di Gaio. Traduzione italiana, a cura di M. Balzarini, Torino, 1998