Identifying Data 2019/20
Subject (*) Spain in the Historical and Legal Context of Europe Code 612G01002
Study programme
Grao en Dereito
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Graduate 1st four-month period
First Basic training 6
Language
Spanish
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Dereito Privado
Coordinador
Montanos Ferrin, Maria Emma
E-mail
emma.montanos@udc.es
Lecturers
Cebreiros alvarez, Eduardo
Montanos Ferrin, Maria Emma
E-mail
eduardo.cebreiros@udc.es
emma.montanos@udc.es
Web
General description A través do contido e desenvolvemento da materia de "España na configuración histórico-xurídica de Europa", dirixida aos estudantes de primeiro curso do grao en Dereito trátase de que estes se poñan en contacto cos principais elementos que configuraron o noso ordenamento xurídico. No desenvolvemento e exposición da materia histórico-xurídica dentro desta planificación académica tivéronse en conta as novas tendencias historiográficas que en parte se consolidaron fóra de España e produciron estudos significativos que os nosos estudantes deben coñecer e valorar. A estrutura de aprendizaxe que expomos, desenvolvemos e desenvolveremos é pioneira nos encuadramientos metodolóxicos españois. En consecuencia, o estudante deberá de ter en conta que o noso pasado xurídico está determinado por Europa porque España non foi nin é unha illa e dentro desta comprensión que é o noso principal obxectivo desenvolveranse todos os demais. Posto que a realidade española foi parte da realidade europea, os estudantes han de comprender e coñecer ben a grandiosa realidade dese dereito común europeo unitario, capaz de dominar a escena xurídica de toda Europa. Pero ademais, teñen que perfilar a súa formación histórico-xurídica entendendo que tamén hai de forma paralela uns dereitos particulares e particularísimos indubidablemente vixentes que constitúen os dereitos propios, nos que tamén España ofrece as súas singularidades. Os obxectivos por tanto pódense sintetizar en: coñecemento do ordenamento xurídico común de Europa nas súas principais manifestacións e coñecemento das singularidades xurídicas de España. Naturalmente, dentro de cada unha das metas quedarán especificados os niveis de coñecemento que han de adquirir os estudantes tendo en conta os principais acontecementos culturais que as determinaron e especificándose as principais institucións que os articularon no noso vinte séculos de ordenación xurídica. Estes puntos aparecen detallados no Programa ou temario a cuxo contido remitímonos.

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A2 Knowledge of the role of law as a regulatory system of social relations
A3 Grasping the systematic nature of the legal system
A4 Appreciating the interdisciplinary nature of legal problems
A6 Understanding the different manifestations of law in its historical evolution and in its current reality.
A8 Basic knowledge of legal argumentation.
A10 Ability to interpret and critically assess the legal system.
A12 Management of legal oratory (ability to express themselves properly in public).
A13 Mastering new technologies applied to law.
B1 Knowledge in an area of study that is based on general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although supported by advanced textbooks, includes also some aspects that involve knowledge from the forefront of his field of study.
B3 Ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgments that include a reflection on social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
B6 Learning to learn.
B8 Critical, logical, and creative thinking.
B9 Working autonomously on own initiative with a lifelong learning approach.
B10 Teamwork and collaboration.
B11 Ethical and social responsibility.
B12 Effective workplace communication and oral and written skills in Spanish, Galician and foreign languages.
B13 Computing and ICT skills.
C1 Adequate oral and written expression in the official languages.
C2 Mastering oral and written expression in foreign languages.
C3 Using ICT in working contexts and lifelong learning.
C4 Exercising an open, educated, critical, committed, democratic and supportive citizenship for the sake of the common good.
C6 Critically assess the knowledge, technology and information available to solve the problems they face.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
A2
A3
A4
A6
A8
A10
A12
B9
B1
B3
C1
A13
B6
B8
B10
B11
B12
B13
C2
C3
C4
C6

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
“SPAIN IN THE HISTORICAL AND LEGAL CONTEXT OF EUROPE”


SPAIN AND THE POST-CLASSICAL ROMAN LAW





Political meaning of the period called Dominate

Justinian

Features of the post-classical Roman Law
THE FIRST MEDIEVAL AGE: PER PUGNAM SINE IUSTITIA: AN AGE WITHOUT JURISTS





The gradual disappearance of the professional jurist

Anthologies and Epitomes in the West: Doctrine and Legislation

The East: The great legislative compilation of Justinian

SPAIN DURING THE 7th- 11th CENTURIES


Oral laws: Custom; the Carolingian Capitularies

The presence of the Church

Per pugnam sine iustitia
A NEW AGE: 12th-15th CENTURIES IUS COMMUNE IN EUROPE:

From the feudal World to urban civilization

The twelfth- century renaissance and the autonomy of the law.

The formation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis and the writings of Irnerius: The rise of Civil Common Law.

Gratian and the Decretum: The rise of Canon Common Law

The great “codifications” of the Church: The Liber Extra of Gregory IX, the Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII, the Clementinae of Clement V, and the formation of the Corpus Iuris Canonici.

Civil Law and Canon Law: The utrumque ius

IUS PROPRIUM IN EUROPE.

Italy: Communal legislation.

Europe outside Italy.

The Iberian Peninsula: Fueros, Usatges, an Royal laws; The Siete Partidas.

France: Pays de droit coutumier; local laws and royal law; the great Coutumiers.

Germany: municipal laws; counts, dukes and princes; the emperor’s laws; the Sachsenspiegel.

THE SYSTEM OF THE IUS COMMUNE.

Ius commune and Ius proprium as positive law: Hierarchy in the sources.

The Ius commune without hierarchy.

Major figures: Irnerius

Gratian

The new science of law

The System of the Ius commune and the Corpus Iuris Civilis: Dialectic

The System of the Ius commune and the Corpus Iuris Civilis: The Ius proprium
Cinus of Pistoia. Bartolus of Saxoferrato


THE UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE AND THE IUS COMMUNE.

The School of Irnerius and the myth of Bologna.

Studying Jurisprudence in terra aliena

The growth of schools in European cities.

The organization of the academic world.

A Different organizational model: The University of Paris

Why were Universities so successful?

LEGAL SCIENCE

The orality of knowledge

The Lectura

The Glossae

The Punctatio librorum

The Repetitio

The Quaestio disputata
MODERN AGE Legal humanism

The “Secunda Scholastica”

Francisco de Vitoria and the School of Salamanca

Hugo Grotius and the doctrine of Natural Law

NATIONAL CODIFICATIONS

The age of codifications

Precedents: The experience of consolidations

The theoretical roots of the codifications

From the French Revolution to the Napoleonic Code Civil

Napoleonic Codes and National Codes in Europe

Germany: Historical School of Law

Savigny`s thought

The Pandectists

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Guest lecture / keynote speech A2 A3 A4 A6 A10 B11 C4 21 0 21
Supervised projects A12 A13 B6 B8 B10 B12 B13 B1 B3 C1 C3 6 6 12
Objective test A3 A6 A10 B3 B1 C1 C2 5 68 73
Case study A2 A3 A4 A6 A8 A10 B9 B1 B3 C6 6 18 24
Document analysis A2 A3 A6 A10 B8 B3 10 0 10
 
Personalized attention 10 0 10
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech Desenvolvemento dos principais puntos do Programa
Supervised projects Desenvolvemento de tutorías que complementen a actividade didáctica das leccións maxistrais
Indicación de lecturas.
Selección e realización de traballos de selección bibbilográfica.
Desenvolvemento de determinadas tarefas de investigación histórico-xurídica básica
Objective test Comprobación dos coñecementos conceptuais obtidos polos alumnos
Case study Análise e estudos de comentarios de texto histórico-xurídicos que axudan a comprender as exposicións teóricas
Document analysis Proxección de películas temáticas sobre aspectos concretos do programa e debate sobre aspectos histórico-xurídicos que se reflictan nas proxeccións.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Guest lecture / keynote speech
Supervised projects
Description
Professor will attend any doubt in his office

Students will do practice activities consist on presentations about readings and work previously fixed.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Guest lecture / keynote speech A2 A3 A4 A6 A10 B11 C4 Valoraranse as acertadas intervencións dos alumnos nas sesións teóricas de exposición do profesor 5
Supervised projects A12 A13 B6 B8 B10 B12 B13 B1 B3 C1 C3 Avaliarase tanto o traballo realizado polo grupo no seu conxunto como individualmente por cada alumno así como a súa exposición oral ante o resto de compañeiros 10
Objective test A3 A6 A10 B3 B1 C1 C2 Avaliarase a correcta aprendizaxe dos contidos básicos da materia 70
Case study A2 A3 A4 A6 A8 A10 B9 B1 B3 C6 Avaliaranse os comentarios de texto realizados polos alumnos 10
Document analysis A2 A3 A6 A10 B8 B3 Avaliaranse as intervencións e debates de e entre os alumnos e o profesor sobre a película proxectada 5
 
Assessment comments

An exam will be required at the end of the semester
concerning all the contents. The value of this exam will be 50 % of the final
mark.

A continuous assessment will be followed throughout the
course. In addition to traditional means of assessment such as the exam,
students may be asked to:

- Make a presentation either individually or as a group project.

- Compose research papers or other extended written work, including
annotated bibliographies.

These
works will be valued with the other 50 % of the final mark.


Sources of information
Basic

Compulsory readings

BELLOMO, M., The Common legal past of Europe (1000-1800), Catholic University Press, (Washington, D.C., 1995).

PENNINGTON , K., “Learned Law, Droit Savant, Gelehrtes Recht: The Tyranny of a Concept”, in Rivista internazionale di diritto comune 5 (1994) 197-209.

Recommended readings

PENNINGTON , K., “Roman and Secular Law in the Middle Ages”, in Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide, edd. F.A.C. Mantello and A.G. Rigg (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America, 1996) 254-266

GROSSI, P., A History of European law, Wiley-Blackwell, (Chichester, 2010).

 

Online resources

Personal webpage professor Pennington, Catholic University of America

European Legal Traditions, Sebastian Golla, Freie Universitat Berlin.

Legal History blog

Legal history with a Dutch view

Complementary


Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before
Spain in the Historical and Legal Context of Europe/612G01002

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously
Roman Foundations of the Western Legal Tradition/612G01001
Jurisprudence/612G01006

Subjects that continue the syllabus

Other comments


(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.