An Introduction to Legal Theory

• Should your class notes and the slides provided not be sufficient, you can consult:
• Please note: For non-attending students, all the indicated material is to be considered mandatory for taking the exam.

Argomenti del programma: I. What is law?What is its function? II. Legal theories about the validity of law III. Constitutional theories IV. Theories of the constitutionality of constitutional amendments V. Key-concepts in Legal Theory VI. Approaches to global law and governance

• Compulsory materials for all students: All materials uploaded by the Professor to MyLuiss; 1. Plato, Apology of Socrates and Crito; 2. Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace; 3. Carl Schmitt, Land and Sea; 4. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem.
• Optional fiction for all students: One novel chosen from: 1. Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading; 2. Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon; 3. William Golding, Lord of the Flies; 4. Leslie P. Hartley, Facial Justice.

Argomenti del programma: I. Law, morality, and globality: The source of normativity between natural law and legal positivism; Antigone, the Speluncean Explorers, Nuremberg, and the Nazi Informer Case. II. Plural legal worlds: Civil law and common law; Islamic and Chinese legal theory; the translatability and limits of Western legal categories. III.