Law and philosophy in a cross-cultural perspective

A.A. 2024/2025
6
Crediti massimi
42
Ore totali
SSD
IUS/20
Lingua
Inglese
Obiettivi formativi
The ability to detach themselves from a western-centric attitude when dealing with non-western or ancient legal phenomena as well as the ability to understand them in accordance to their own structure, principles, or institutions, without coercing them into our familiar categories.
Risultati apprendimento attesi
A - Acquaintance with some non-Western legal institutions and ability to analyze them.
B - Ability to find - if any - comparable legal institutions in Western and non-Western legal traditions by searching for "family resemblances" (Wittgenstein) and/or "invariants" (Reinach).
C - Ability to assess critically legal institutions regardless of their Western or non-Western origin, along with the ability to analyze the same legal institution from different perspectives.
D - Ability to discuss legal institutions with people from all over the world without Western-centric biases.
E - The diversity of approaches that will be presented during this course will enable the student to better learn the functioning and the structure of new or alien legal institutions.
Corso singolo

Questo insegnamento può essere seguito come corso singolo.

Programma e organizzazione didattica

Edizione unica

Periodo
Secondo semestre

Programma
This course aims at training a jurist for a globalized world where the Western legal categories - chiefly those of civil and common law - often get exported or transplanted into alien legal traditions not seldom with unintended consequences that are hardly predictable in advance. Further, in a legally globalized world the jurist will be often confronted with legal institutions that are completely incommensurable with Western institutions. By having recourse to a philosophical approach (understood as a search for questions rather than a search for answers, as well as an invitation to what Ancient Greeks called thaumázein, that is, being surprised by phenomena, in turn, understood as a preliminary stage to their critical understanding), students will be sensitized, on the one hand, to the relativity of some Western legal institutions, on the other hand, to the possibility of some human legal universals, some of which sometimes can be traced even among non-human animals. In this way the student will develop a non-Western-centric approach to new or alien legal problems.
During the course texts by legal philosophers as well as by legal sociologists, anthro-pologists, psychologists and ethologists, will be assigned and critically discussed. Attention will be devoted to relativism, in general, and, in particular, to some legal institutions like revenge, punishment, promise, property, per
son and status groups, as well as sexual and other taboos.
Prerequisiti
Nessuno
Metodi didattici
Lezioni frontali
Materiale di riferimento
1. John R. Searle, The Construction of Social Reality, London, Penguin, 1996.
2. Hans Kelsen, Introduction to the Problems of Legal Theory. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992.
Other texts will be available on Ariel platform.
Modalità di verifica dell’apprendimento e criteri di valutazione
Presentazioni e discussioni
IUS/20 - FILOSOFIA DEL DIRITTO - CFU: 6
Lezioni: 42 ore
Docente/i
Ricevimento:
riceve su appuntamento (concordato via email) il mercoledì alle ore 12 e il giovedì alle ore 10,30
Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche "Cesare Beccaria" Sezione di Filosofia e Sociologia del diritto
Ricevimento:
Prof. Fittipaldi meets students on Wednesdays at 4pm. Each meeting must be prearranged via email ([email protected])
Microsoft Teams: 9rf0ehm