Study-unit LEGAL LOGIC AND JUDICIAL CRIMINOLOGY

Course name Legal services
Study-unit Code A002834
Location PERUGIA
Curriculum Law and technologies
Lecturer Simona Carlotta Sagnotti
Lecturers
  • Simona Carlotta Sagnotti
Hours
  • 54 ore - Simona Carlotta Sagnotti
CFU 9
Course Regulation Coorte 2023
Supplied 2023/24
Supplied other course regulation
Learning activities Base
Area Filosofico-giuridico
Sector IUS/20
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction Italian
Contents The course aims to analyze and deepen the logical aspects of legal science, both on a theoretical and on a practical level. During the course, some past and current trials will be analysed, with reference to recent judicial cases.
Reference texts G. Carcaterra, Presupposti e strumenti della scienza giuridica, Giappichelli, Torino, ult. rist.; G. Mignini, Il caso Meredith Kercher. Una vicenda giudiziaria tra due continenti, Morlacchi, Perugia, 2022.
Educational objectives The course deals with theory and practice, moving from practice to arrive at theory: in fact, from the analysis of concrete cases it is possible to deduce the logical rules that must be respected so that the final sentence can be considered logically founded and consequently also fair .
Prerequisites Respect for preparatory requirements
Teaching methods Lectures and analysis of jurisprudential cases.
Other information
Learning verification modality Oral examination.
Extended program An important part of the course is so dedicated to the study of judicial cases, including recent ones, with attention both to the arguments of the hearing phase of the trials and to the arguments presented in the indictments or arguments of the parties no less than in the sentences. In this line, in particular, some sentences of the Italian Court of Cassation will be analyzed with reference to those defects that are called logicality defects. Alongside the analysis of logical arguments particularly widespread in the judicial field, such as the argument of authority, by analogy, by definition, etc., the fallacies will also be studied, i.e. those arguments endowed with an appearance of logic but in reality lacking it. Such erroneous or fallacious arguments are often contained in classic but still current sophisms.
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile