PURPOSE OF THE COURSE:
The course is aimed at the analysis of the system of legal sources and of their historical development in the frame of the institutional experiences of the European countries. The main topics focus on the role of the lawyer and on the instruments, methods and techniques employed by this latter as from the XII until the XX century in the building of the European law. The course makes use also of direct knowledge of the sources, through the use of the on line data base, accessible with the knowledge of the contents of the didactical support under n. 3) of the following list of texts.