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Course: 2025/2026

Roman Law
(13564)
Bachelor in Law (Study Plan 2018) (Plan: 397 - Estudio: 206)


Coordinating teacher: CARRASCO GARCIA, MARIA CONSUELO

Department assigned to the subject: Private Law Department

Type: Basic Core
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 1º
Semester: 1º

Branch of knowledge: Social Sciences and Law


Learning Outcomes
K1: Know basic humanistic contents, oral and written expression, following ethical principles and completing a multidisciplinary training profile. K7: To know the legal tools and instruments applicable to the interpretation and integration of the legal system, as well as to the resolution of conflicts, in the field of Private Law. K12: Understand the ethical dimension of law and the need to act responsibly in the defence of fundamental rights and social justice. S3: Apply the necessary skills to search for information in the different legal sources (legal, jurisprudential and doctrinal). S5: Correctly diagnose legal problems and apply the appropriate tools for their solution. S11: To develop with autonomy and respect for deontological principles in their work and professional performance. C1: Know how to analyse, elaborate and defend individually a problem in the disciplinary field of the Bachelor's Degree by applying the knowledge, skills, tools and strategies acquired or developed in it. C4: Be able to solve complex legal problems by applying creativity and innovative ideas.
Description of contents: programme
- Introduction to the study of Roman law and its reception in Europe - History, political and constitutional organization and sources of law -The subject of rights (natural persons and artificial persons) - Roman civil process law ("legis actiones"; "per formulas"; "cognitio extraordinem") - Real rights (property, possession and other real rights such as use, easement, and rights of guarantee) - Obligations (elements, sources, performance, ways of extinguishing obligations, guarantee)
Learning activities and methodology
Problem based learning
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Schiavone, A., . The invention of law in the West. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. 2012 (2005).
  • Edited by Nasti. F/Schiavone, A.. Jurists and legal science in the history of roman law. Routledge (London and NY)/Giappicchelli (Torino). 2022
  • Johnston, D., ed. 2015. . The Cambridge companion to Roman law. Cambridge Univ. Press., Cambridge (UK). 2015
  • Robinson, O. F., . The sources of Roman law: Problems and methods for ancient historians. Routledge, London (UK). 1997
  • Stein, P., . Roman law in European history. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York. 1999
  • Tellegen-Couperus, O. E.,. A short history of Roman law. London, Routledge. 1993
Recursos electrónicosElectronic Resources *
Additional Bibliography
  • Codex: https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/codjust_Scott.htm. Digesta: https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/digest_Scott.htm . Instituta: https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/iust_institut_Scott.html. Novellae: https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/Novellae_Scott.htm
  • The Digest of Justinian. Edited by Alan Watson. University of Pennsylvania. 2011
Detailed subject contents or complementary information about assessment system of B.T.
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