A short Introduction to the Italian Legal System. Vol. I - Historical Background and Modern Legal Thought

Abstract

This book is the first in a series of volumes describing the Italian legal system. The plan of the work involves separate volumes dedicated to the “Italian style” and to the sources of the law, the analysis and description of the fundamental elements of the system, and the critical exposure of specific institutes of private law. The choice to use, for all the work, the English language with a simple and plain presentation of subjects, is justified by the desire to disseminate this work to the Italian and especially foreign students of the new university courses in cooperation and development, international relations, economic and political sciences as well as law courses. With this first opening volume (which holds the updated results of earlier researches) the Author describes the historical-cultural background of the Italian legal system and the contemporary legal thought.