Sociology of Law Advanced
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
At the end on this course the student will have acquired a philological awareness, which will make it possible for her or him to reconstruct the ideas of the classics in sociology of law and awareness as to the problems raised by conceptualization (and, possibly, operationalizations) in social sciences in general and sociology of law in particular.
Expected learning outcomes
A - Ability to study the classics and acquaintance with the empirical methods of sociology of law
B - Ability to conceptualize legal phenomena and possibly operationalize the re-sulting conceptualizations through the main quantitative and qualitative empirical sociological methods
C - Ability to address critically the scientific purport of texts endowed with high scientific prestige (classics in sociology of law)
D - Further improvement of the command of the sociological and legal-sociological technical languages relative to the command acquired in Sociologia del diritto (basic)
E - Improvement of the ability to learn sociological subjects, including subjects other than sociology of law
B - Ability to conceptualize legal phenomena and possibly operationalize the re-sulting conceptualizations through the main quantitative and qualitative empirical sociological methods
C - Ability to address critically the scientific purport of texts endowed with high scientific prestige (classics in sociology of law)
D - Further improvement of the command of the sociological and legal-sociological technical languages relative to the command acquired in Sociologia del diritto (basic)
E - Improvement of the ability to learn sociological subjects, including subjects other than sociology of law
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Lesson period
First semester
In the event of an emergency, the couse will be taught on Teams.
Course syllabus
This is a monographic course in Law and Emotions. In the first part, most normative emotions are discussed--not only those that strictly concern the jurist (notably, the sense of entitlement and related emotions, such as resignation). Therefore, the following emotions will be addressed: anger (and its relation to sense of entitlement), jural resignation, vicarious anger, indignation, disgust, contempt, guilt, shame, and pride. In the second part, it will be discussed how normative emotions, and, notably, anger and indignation, cause the emergence of law. Special attention will be paid to positivization, formalization, as well as to the emergence of adjudication and the state.
Prerequisites for admission
None
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures
Teaching Resources
ATTENDING STUDENTS: texts provided by the instructor during the course
NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
Non attending students must study BOTH (1a or 1b) and (2a or 2b):
(1a) Edoardo Fittipaldi, "Norms, Rights, Obligations: An Attempt at Empirical Reduction", available on Ariel (as an alternative to (1a), they can study (1b) Edoardo Fittipaldi, "Norma: una concettualizzazione per la sociologia del diritto e le altre scienze sociali", Milano LED).
(2a) Edoardo Fittipaldi, "Psicologia giuridica e realismo", Milano, LED (as an alternative to (2a), they can study (2b), i.e., BOTH 2016a and 2016b, available on Ariel).
NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
Non attending students must study BOTH (1a or 1b) and (2a or 2b):
(1a) Edoardo Fittipaldi, "Norms, Rights, Obligations: An Attempt at Empirical Reduction", available on Ariel (as an alternative to (1a), they can study (1b) Edoardo Fittipaldi, "Norma: una concettualizzazione per la sociologia del diritto e le altre scienze sociali", Milano LED).
(2a) Edoardo Fittipaldi, "Psicologia giuridica e realismo", Milano, LED (as an alternative to (2a), they can study (2b), i.e., BOTH 2016a and 2016b, available on Ariel).
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral exam
IUS/20 - PHILOSOPHY OF LAW - University credits: 6
Lessons: 42 hours