Ateneo - UPO

The present course deals with worldwide legal families and
comparative legal methodology. Common law and civil law, as well as radically
different legal systems, will be analyzed in the sake of giving to the student a critical
understanding of her own (as well of other’s) legal setting and conceptual
categories.

For students LMG NOT ATTENDING the course the textbooks to be studied are: 1) U.
MATTEI- P.G. MONATERI, Introduzione breve al diritto comparato, Cedam ult. ed., but only the first part.
2) E. Grande, Guai ai poveri. La faccia triste dell'America, Edizioni gruppo Abele, 2017. 3) U.Mattei, Il
modello di common law, Giappichelli, 2018, but only the first four chapters.
To be noticed: The text: Introduzione breve al diritto comparato by U. Mattei e P.G.
Monateri is to be found on moodle, since it is out of print. The text: "Guai ai poveri" can be also bought online as a printed book or in e-book o kindle versions on www.edizionigruppoabele.it.

For LMG ATTENDING students, class materials are given in class and are to be found online.
For NON ATTENDING students ASPES the textbooks to be studied are: 1) E. Grande, Guai ai poveri. La faccia triste dell'America, Edizioni gruppo Abele, 2017. 2) U.Mattei, Il modello di common law, Giappichelli, quinta edizione, 2018, yet only chapters: one, two, three (parr.1,2,3,9,10) and four .
To be noticed: The text: "Guai ai poveri" can be also bought online as a printed book or in e-book o kindle versions on www.edizionigruppoabele.it.

Also for Aspes ATTENDING students, class materials are given in class and are to be found online.

The course aims at equipping the student with legal tools that are more and more
necessary in a globalized legal landscape. It gives the students some basic notion
of the world’s legal systems and deals in depth with some of them. It also aims at
enlarging the student’s perspective about issues that a globalized world raises
contstantly in order to make him or her able to cope with them.
In sum the course aims at forming students as a global lawyers and players.

The course aims at equipping the student with legal tools that are more and more
necessary in a globalized legal landscape. It gives the students some basic notion
of the world’s legal systems and deals in depth with some of them. It also aims at
enlarging the student’s perspective about issues that a globalized world raises
contstantly in order to make him or her able to cope with them.
In sum the course aims at forming students as a global lawyers and players.

Having passed the first year exams necessary for the admission to the second year of study.

The course is tought in a conventional way, yet using many less conventional
materials, like multi-medial courseware that students are invited to discuss in class. Student's active participation is moreover encouraged by an oral or written performance in class. Attending classes is not
compulsory, yet for attending students learning material will be different and provided during the course.

Teaching materials for attending students are to be found on the website of the course.
Students with BES/DSA can contact me during class or via e-mail in order to arrange the modality of the exam

Non attending students are expected to pass a written exam of one hour and half, three
questions, one for each texbook to be studied.
Attending students are going to be evaluated on one or more written tests,
and on thier active participation in class.

The present course deals with worldwide legal families and
comparative legal methodology. Common law and civil law, as well as radically
different legal systems, will be analyzed in the sake of giving to the student a critical
understanding of her own (as well of other’s) legal setting and conceptual
categories.

Basic knowledge of the different legal systems as well as of the comparative methodology. Critical skills on the foundations of their own legal tradition.