Part I: Natural Law and Positive Law; Philosophy of Law (in strict sense); Jurisprudence; General Theory of Law; Sociology of Law; Philosophy of Law (in a broad sense).

Part II: Legal Norms; Rights, principles and balancing; Legal Order; Sources of Law; Legal Interpretation; Legal Reasoning and Persuasion.

Part III: Justice and Myth.

Erasmus Students:

Part I

- Natural Law Theory
- Legal Positivism
- American Legal Realism
- Critical Legal Theory
- Feminist Legal Theory: Difference, Dominance,
Domesticity, and Denial

Part II

- Persistent Questions
- Laws, Commands, and Orders
- The Variety of Laws
- Sovereign and Subject
- Law as the Union of Primary and Secondary Rules
- The Foundations of a Legal System
- Formalism and Rule-Scepticism
- Justice and Morality
- Laws and Morals

Testi di esame (frequentanti)

- Gustavo Zagrebelsky, Diritto allo specchio, Einaudi, Torino, 2018 (le parti da studiare saranno definite durante le lezioni);
- Marta Cartabia, Luciano Violante, Giustizia e mito, il Mulino, Bologna, 2018.

Testi di esame (non frequentanti)

- M. La Torre, Il diritto contro se stesso, Olschki, Firenze, 2020;
- Cass R. Sunstein, #republic. La democrazia nell’epoca dei social media, il Mulino, Bologna 2017 (limitatamente ai capp. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, X e XI).

Testi di esame (Studenti Erasmus)

- Martin P. Golding and William A. Edmundson (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, Blackwell, Oxford, 2005 (Chapters 1,2,3,5 e 6).
- H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law, 2nd ed., with a postscript edited by Penelope A. Bulloch and Joseph Raz, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994.