I expected that the final lectures about Law and music should be a right conclusion for our course, but I think it was even better than I expected. As the wonderful examples played by M. Polimanti have shown, music is a phenomenon that shows a strong parallelism with law. History and traditions, writing and publishing texts, sensibility of society, technical innovation, have a great influence on music, just as in law.
Giorgio Resta insisted very much on a point that has been in the core of the whole semester. This idea is that it's time to break the cultural isolation of law. Since the 19th century (but in some ways since the beginning of the second Millennium) law has been taught and practised as a language for initiated, a religion with her priests and her rituals. Since some years, things are changing. Isolation of law isn't any more a way of increasing power and respect for lawyers. On the contrary, the tehcnical structure of a legal education can represent an obstacle for lawyers as they try to understand the deep functions of society.
That's why I think that the different cultural experiences we had during this course are more than a breath of air in the middle of a series of serious, technical and boring exams. Looking at law from an external perspective can really improve our understanding of law and – what is more important – can help us to evaluate the impact that law has on human beings and relationships.
I’m very keen to read your general impressions about the course. You can post them with your name if you want to discuss them with your colleagues and with me and Stefania Gialdroni, but if you want to be anonimous you can also send them to me per e-mail or even post them in my postbox.
Let me say that I’m proud of the success of this experience, and let me thank all of you for your enthusiastic participation.
Manzoni: Dr. "Azzeccagarbugli"
Picture by Francesco Gonin, 1840 edition of Alessandro Manzoni's "I promessi sposi"
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After the last lesson of the course, I’d like to tell something about the experience of “ Law and Humanities ’s lessons.
It was very interesting to me to have the possibility to follow these lesson and have a contact with different professors with a different teaching – method, who came from university of many parts of the world, and it was exciting !
About the course : The most important aspect that I want to highlight is that after this course comes out a REQUALIFICATION OF THE ROLE OF THE JURIST, seen not only as a technician of the law or a strict “applicator “ of the law, but also as a humanist and first of all as an INTELLECTUAL.
It is very interesting to me because I noticed that the Italian approach to the study of the law focuses less on the link with the other humanistic disciplines and on the interdisciplinarity.
Personally I have always fed my passion for literature, music and art in parallel with my academic study of law, and I have always seen them as a very distant fields.
Thanks to this course I have finally riunificated them, and I’ve appreciated that in other countries ( especially in USA and in Uk) there is a true attention for the commistion between law and the artistic disciplines.
I wish that this sensibility will be developed also in Italy because, after all, originally in the Alma Mater in Bologna born the first University where the students were associated to study all the liberal arts together ( TRIVIUM : grammar, dialectics, oratory – QUADRIVIUM : music, astronomy, geometry, maths) in an interactive way.
Finally I have also appreciated a teaching – method different from the Italian one, because it helps to emphasize the student’s opinion and creates an exchange between the class and the professor.
Thanks for this opportunity!
Laura Di Bartolomeo
I really liked law and music's lessons because I found very interesting how similar music culture and law can be.I really like the similarity between law's interpretation and the interpretation of a music score, due also to the performance of Enrico Maria Polimanti (thank you!).
Attending this course made me think a lot about lawyers studies, our knowledge can't be based only in a strictly methode of studies,we need arts. we need to explore differents fields of studies to enrich our souls.As human beings need other human beings to exist also law need others fields of studies. I think nothing make sense without other therms of comparison ,isolating law is like creating something that doesn't exist in reality. Culture and society are the base for law and law influences society at the same time (as we said in law and cinema's lessons). Law can't be seen as something outside culture if it's culture itself that built it up! I think this course it's useful to open our minds and makes us thinking that we, as human beeings not only as jurist, need to know more about every form of art, just because curiosity attracts knowledge and knowlegde makes us capable of understanding better everything, especially law. At the end I think that law needs desperately humanities to grow up and be better,to listen sociaty's voice.
Thank you!
I fully agree with Laura's enthusiasm. Me too, until now , I had always kept separate university from my passion for literature and arts.
This attitude has led me to underestimate the creative potential of my studies.
Yesterday I was particularly struck by an assertion of Professor Resta, about the big mistake that a lot of people makes in finding the music pure creativity, freedom, an area of personal expression stranger to rules.
Instead music, theater, art, although fields of free expression in the content, they must abide by the rules of the form / technique, sometimes very hard.
I received many benefits from this course : I have not only enriched my knowledges (through the texts proposed by the professors, but especially with the discussion in class) but I also (finally) achieved a greater awareness of my studies, freed from vision "limited", which draws the Law a scientific study (and sometimes boring!)
Well, now I would like to greet and thank everybody for this interesting path made together!
Fabiana Lanfranconi
I’m totally agree with my classmates!
I must say that Law and Humanities course was very interesting and stimulating because goes beyond the traditional teaching method and it let us enrich our knowledge in different fields.
I allow myself to suggest it to those students who would like to try and test themselves with new subjects which are discussed from time to time by skilled professors who come from prestigious universities of foreign countries.
Classes were very interactive and dynamic and topics addressed were different: it was an original work to 360 degrees which allowed us to analyze the link between Law and other subjects never done before.
Besides, for me, it was the first time that I wrote on a blog (and I hope have done well!) and also for this, was a new, involving but above all an useful and constructive experience.
And then, can I say about Law and Music? The last two classes were very engaging and enriched by skill and professionalism of the Master Enrico Polimanti.
The course couldn’t finish in the best possible way!
Thanks a lot for this beautiful experience!
D’Antona Valentina
When I started to attend the lessons in this Faculty, everybody used to tell me that the only thing I needed to study law was my memory, but I have never wanted to believe them!
Thanks to this course, I had the demonstration that, also in this Faculty, we can develop our critical opinion and think of law as related to all the aspects of human being.
I was surprised by the incredible knowledge of the professors we met and by the interest of all the students in the class because I also learned something from their comments and questions.
I think the blog was a good opportunity to develop our skill in writing in English, but also to exchange our different points of view as regards all the topics we dealt with.
Thank you!
Alessandra Simeoni
Hello!!!
The course of "law and humanities" was very interesting for two reasons:
-the lessons were structured in an innovative way and to discuss and hear English professors was important for the pronunciation.
-I've found innovative writing on a blog,and I think that the blog is an useful instrument for to take some exercise in writing. I've never wrote before on a blog and especially of legal arguments, and I must say it was a bit complicated to be able to write well in English concepts that you think in Italian.
This was really a beautiful experience, I am happy and satisfied to have attended this course and I want to thank the Prof. Conte for this opportunity and the Dr. Gialdroni for the constant presence in the blog and by e-mail!!!
Best regards to all...
Giorgia Ciucci
Good morning!
This course was really interesting and challenging for me!
On the square, when I started I worried because I didn’t know if my English knowledge could be sufficient for understand lessons. And at the beginning I was in trouble…but during the lessons the content became more and more interesting and difficulty diminish.
First of all because is the first time that in our faculty I study an interdisciplinary subject in this way…teachers who ware available and ready to listened our opinion, arguments that weren’t boring, the defiance to learn all in English, the possibility to know my colleagues and speak together of our impressions, get an impression that law isn’t only a job but also something that is into our society and discover that the links(not always evident, for me!) between law and culture are numerous, the blog in which read what someone understand of the lesson…..those are the elements that transform this course in a particular course… the impression that students aren’t interesting only to memorize lessons, but also to understand or rediscover that we mustn’t be close in our “legal space”…
Thanks for availability of dott. Gialdroni and Prof. Conte!
Daniela D’Annibale
At the end of this semester I have to say that I'm really happy to have participated in this course of Law and humanities.
The various humanities subjects have helped me to get out from the rigid and systematic charapter of law. This stiffness is usually necessary to make the law a reasonable point of reference but can become at the same time limit.
Indeed the texts of Shakespeare helped me to take into consideration the importance of concepts such as equity, reasonableness that a purely textual reading can lead to forgetting. We saw with Kafka the empathetic consequences of a prosecution on a citizen and the narrative translation of Laches theory!
With law and architecture I appreciate the Platone comparison between right and plumb because both can change shape in search for what is useful and true.
Law and iconography, cinema and music have been useful for me to understand that the spaces of freedom that the law allows are essential to develop the creativity that characterizes the human mind and which help to reflect on the need to extend or not these spaces.
In my opinion the humanities subjects are both useful to understand the law and its application in general cases and particular cases and to create the point of departure for the creation of a new law more closely to the needs of the citizens.
Antonio Rosetta
I'm very happy I choosed this amazing course:it was a great way to find some energies to go on my studies.During these last lessons I noted down a Flaubert's sentence that impressed me a lot:"every lawyer carries within himself the debris of a poet".This is my hope! I think that it is right to consider a jurist not only as a "law technician" but also as a "law supporter" and an intellectual.This helped me to look at me as a law student from a different point of view.Because of this I want to thank and congratulate prof.Conte and Stefania Gialdroni for their hard work.
Besides I would like to say something about the connection between "law and music",the strangest connection of the
course and the most hazardous.
Prof.Resta in particular stressed the connection beetween "legal culture and musical culture".He said that we can approach this subject also considering law AS music and comparing a lawyer and a musicant.The musicant is an artist that,in the meantime,has to respect "règles certaines" (like Rameau wrote),as a lawyer do.
I guess that it can be very interesting to consider law IN music too.The word "music" comes from the greek word Muse.The occidental idea of music is connected to Muses,symbols of perfection,order and beauty.Music always plays an important role in the social and religious life.Music speaks an universal language and it's a culture medium.Music often offers a way to make politic criticism or to suggest the adherence to a political party.For example,in Italy everyone knows the song "Bella ciao!" that was and nowdays is the hymn of partisans;"Faccetta nera",on the contrary,was composed for the fascist political propaganda on 1935.We can consider law in music also thinking about Opera or looking at the contemporary music.In fact,lot of songs are critical against institutions,politics and the system in general.
Giulia Giacomini
For the first time in my career I am happy about have been attended a course!
"Law and Humanities" not only gave me something more with respect to the others courses but the air breathe in that class was very different.There was the pleasure to share whatever kind of information and personal experience and I think that the most important thing was the fact that any form of personal contribute was considered precious.
The richness of this course is that will be different every year because even if the Professors will be the same, there will be different students that singularly will give something different to their mates and to the course as well..I very curious to know about what will be next year because I am sure that the work are in progress!
I have some suggestions about the posibilities of other subjects to be pointed out and I will write that on the paper Dott. ssa Gialdroni sent us.
Law is not only a singular and adjective reality but it's part of a reality and it's a form of human creation as all the sorts of art products as well:It's created my human being, it's expressions of a reality and it's impossible to consider those element, all, singularly.We are helped to for study of one by the analysis of the others!
Thank you to Prof. Conte, to Dott.ssa Gialdroni and to all of you!
See you tomorrow!
Emanuela
I think that I need only few words to say my impression about this course: I think that It was really great! Thank you to have given to us the opportunity to open our mind to different disciplines! Personally I like very much to make connection between different kind of arts, because I think that specially who studies law has to know the society, and according to me the arts are the best way to know the society where we live, where we lived, where we will live! According to me to read books, to watch movies or to go to the theatre is a different way to watch our selves, to understand the period in which we live, to understand our own world! The most important thing of this course according to me it’s that it gave us the opportunity to discuss about the law when sometimes it seems that the law it’s like this and that it’s something on what we can’t and we don’t have to discuss: completely wrong! Specially who studies law has to discuss about the law, about the way is seen the law and represented, we should take in consideration the other eyes that are on the law because only in this way we could see the all panorama and maybe take the right decisions!
Maria Buonanno
Hi everybody!
The course “law and humanities” is finished and I want to say that was a great occasion for me for the following reasons.
First of all the use of English language in the course consented me to practice it (I’ve been without study English from the end of upper school!)
Besides the course brought me to elaborate on some issues we discussed. I found so interesting the lessons about kafka that I have just begun to read kafka’s process!
This course made me also reflect on the importance of humanities for a lawyer and for a law’s student as I am. I’ve never thought how often law is around us in the form of literature, cinema, music, art and thanks to this course I pay more attention on this.
Those are the reasons why I want to thank Prof.Conte and everybody who collaborated in the course!
See you soon
Bye bye
Giorgia Melia
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