Make students aware of the complexity and variety of the interactions between law and society
Course Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
The lectures will adopt an analytic approach and will profit from the discussion of some fundamental texts.
Assessment Methods
Oral examination with questions concerning the main topics of the discipline
Texts
The bibliography for the students who have regularly attended the lectures consists of the texts discussed during the lectures and available online, and parts of the following book: V. FERRARI, Diritto e società: elementi di sociologia del diritto, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2012. The bibliography for the students who have not attended regularly the lectures consists of the following two books: V. FERRARI, Lineamenti di sociologia del diritto. I. Azione giuridica e sistema normativo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014, pages from 55 to 269. - A. G. CONTE, P. DI LUCIA, L. FERRAJOLI, M. JORI (eds.), Filosofia del diritto, Milano, Cortina (second edition). Pages 51-60, 89-99, 101-110, 321-328, 543-551. Instead, the students who want to hold the examination in English will have to study the following text: - L. M. FRIEDMAN, Impact. How Law Affects Behavior, Cambridge (Ma.), Harvard University Press, 2016 (the entire book).
Contents
The course is devoted to elucidate - through the analysis of some fundamental texts of legal sociology - the relationship between law and society. In particular, the following topics will be discussed: the method of sociology, the relationship between legal rules and social actions, the functions of law, the legal system as an instrument of social control, the relationship between the law and mass-media.
