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UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA
PROGRAM OF EUROPEAN FOUNDATION OF OBLIGATIONS (6 credits)
PROF. ANTONIO SACCOCCIO
2015-2016

AIM OF THE COURSE
The course intend to allow the student to learning exegetical method in the analysis and interpretation of the legal sources, both with reference to the classical Roman law, and with reference to the legal texts currently in force

PROGRAMMA DEL CORSO
The course is divided into two parts: the first part (fixed) is a brief review of the sources of production of law and of the characteristics of the codes of Justinian; the second part is a specific course on the Roman system of contracts, with nods to the movements of unification of contract law in Europe today (UNIDROIT, Principles, PECL, DCFR etc.), Latin America (Latin American codifications); China and supranational structures (BRICS), with particular reference to the loan contract
For the examination, both parties are required.

A) Fixed part (only refresh)
• mores maiorum and custom; the responsa prudentium; the senatusconsulta, the leges and the plebiscita; the Edict of the Praetor; the constitutiones principum
• the general characteristics of Justinian 'codes'
• the problem of Principia iuris and general principles of law: Art. 12 disp. prel. Cc. it. 1942

B) Monographic Part
• The Gaian division of the sources of obligations: contractus-delictus;
the dogmatic problems that this raises: from the division in two-parties up to the division in three parties.
The division in four parties made by Justinian and the creation of quasi-contract and quasi-delict: Justinian and Theophilus
The Napoleonic Code and Cc. it. 1865 (art. 1096) and 1942 (art. 1173)
• The historical priority of quadripartition re- verbis-litteris-consensu
• The genesis of the categories of re-verbis-litteris-consensu obligationem contrahere
• From contrahere to contractus
the position of Quintus Mucius (I cent. BC) and the quidque contractum est
The position of Labeo (I century AD.) and objective bilaterality (synallagma)
the position of Pedius (I-II cent. AD) and the importance given to the consent
the position of Gaius (II century AD.) and the birth of quadripartition
the position of Ulpian (III century AD.) and the theory of conventiones
the position of Justinian (VI century AD.) and Byzantine perspective
• The obligationes re contractae: the loan and the injustified payment in Gaius
Other real contracts
• The Obligationes consensus contractae
trade, lease, society and mandate
The problem of bilateralism or subjective and objective
or Bilateralism and synallagma
• The loan in the so called European projects of Soft Law
UNIDROIT Principles;
The PECL;
L'Avant-Project Gandolfi;
o The DCFR;
• The loan in the Latin American codifications
system and legal systems
o From Siete Partidas to Latin American independence Codes
o Cc. guide the latinamerican legal system
• The Cc. of Andrés Bello (Chile, 1855);
• The Cc. of Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield (Argentina, 1869);
• The Cc.of Brazil (Teixeira de Freitas - Clóvis Bevilaqua, 1916);
• The Cc. Federal of Mexico (1928)
the Latin American Cc. of II generation (Peru 1984; Cuba, 1987; Brazil, 2003; Argentina, 2015).
• The Contractin the Chinese legal experience:
China until Mao Tzedong;
the post-Mao China;
projects for a Chinese Cc.
Experience supranational Institutions (BRICS)

Recommended text for attending students:
Reading of I.1,1-2; the text will be distributed, translated into Italian and commented in class;
lecture notes and course materials distributed during the course;
For attending students, the class attendance and study notes is sufficient for the exam; alternatively, for those who want, it is possible to study G.GROSSO Il sistema romano dei contratti, Giappichelli, 1968 3. ed., chapters II, III, VIII; IX; X; XI and XII (pp. 3-109 and 163-244)
Recommended text for non attending students:
G. GROSSO, Il sistema romano dei contratti, Torino, Giappichelli, 19683, 1-244.