Prof. Emanuele Conte's Lectures

Dear all,
next week Prof. Conte will talk about the interactions between Law and History. There will be only two talks, as Friday is the 1st of May. He suggested the following reading, that I will send you as soon as possible.

James Q. Whitman, "Bring back the Glory!", in "Rechtsgeschichte", 4 (2004), pp. 74-81.

Mathias Reimann, "Nineteenth German Legal Science", in "Boston College Law Review", 31.4 (1990), pp. 842-897, especially par. II and III.

http://www.giur.uniroma3.it/themes/GiurBlue/docenti/conte/conte.htm

Law and architecture

Among these pictures:
- Corte di Cassazione, Rome
- Palazzo H, Rome
- Facoltà di giurisprudenza, Univ.
La Sapienza, Rome
- Palais de Justice, Paris
- Palais de Justice, Rouen
- Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultatet,
Bibliothek, Hamburg

- Royal Courts of Justice, London

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Law and paintings and drawings and sculptures...

These are some of the pictures that you proposed becuase they all are, in a particular way, linked to the idea of law and/or justice. You will find among them:

- "La vision de Hugo" by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlein.
- "Portrait of the lawyer Hugo Simons" by Otto Dix.
- Buon Governo frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
- "Les gens de justice" by Honoré Daumier.
- "Mercurio in volo" by Alessandro Romano.
- "Die Gerechtigkeit (The Justice), Tarot by Hans Rudolf Giger.

- "La consegna del Codice Rocco" (The delivery of the Rocco Code) by Giulio Bargellini (Ministry of Justice, Rome).

- "Electric Chair" by Andy Warhol.

- "Abu Ghraib 66" by Fernando Botero.

- "Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen" (Fountain of Justice), Berne, by Hans Gieng

- Lady Justice, Old Bailey, London

Exam Calendar

Dear all,
as you know, we will tell you all the details about the way we are going to examine you at the end of the course. Anyway, it is sure that if you don't write your comments on the blog you will be obliged to write a little essay in English. The exam calendar is the following:

JUNE & JULY:

9th June, h. 9:00

23th June, h. 9:00

21st July, h. 9:00

SEPTEMBER:

8th September, h. 9:00

22nd September, h. 9:00

Law and Architecture in London

Hi everybody!

First of all, it would be really great even if a little group of students could go to the Teatro India to see Civica's version of the MOV (as Emanuela suggested) which seems to be absolutely original. You now know the play quite well, I'm sure you will enjoy it!

Second, if you happen to go to London, especially after these talks about Law and Architecture, try to visit the Inns of Court too. Maybe you are not all aware that you can visit them. I suggest Lincoln's Inn (with lovely law bookshop) and, of course, Inner and Middle Temple (with the famous Temple Church...). They are all in the very centre of London, not far away from Trafalgar Square and near the High Courts of Justice too. I'm sure that the architecture will give you an idea of the barristers' status in England! By the way, if you have really patient friends/family, you can also see a criminal case in the Old Bailey (http://www.touruk.co.uk/london_sights/oldbailey1.htm). It's quite fun.

Thanks and something else

Dear all,

first of all I would like to thank you for your participation to the lectures and your comments on the blog: most of them are really interesting and I'm sorry that I'm not able to answer to all of them properly (today we reached the incredible number of 250 comments and there are still 6 speakers left!). Anyway, I would like to assure you that we are going to talk a little bit about them during your exam. I will try to look through your comments before the exam in order to discuss some issues with you later. Thank you also for the comments about the MOV movie that we couldn't watch together! Next time it will (has to) work, don't worry.

About Emanuela Hernandez's question, as you know, Prof. Watt was so kind to answer: I'm sure you will really enjoy his talks and I'm very sorry that I won't be there! The point is, I think, to analyse the symbolic dimension of architecture in its connection to law. I think that you can understand a little bit what it is all about reading David Evans' article I sent you. He writes about the Inns of Court in London. We don't have anything like that, but what about the architecture of tribunals in Italy? Do you know them? And the law faculties? Some of them are very ordinary buildings, some others certainly not. Why? Of course this is only one possibility.

Finally, I would like to tell you 2 things:

1) If you discuss some interesting topics about law and architecture during this week you can send me the images you proposed with a little comment: I will try to put on the blog some of them.
2) If someone wants my power point presentations just write me an email and I will send them to you.

It was really great to meet you finally!
Best

Quotation

Can you find the original English version of this quotation of Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem"?

"Un processo assomiglia a un dramma in quanto che dal principio alla fine si occupa del protagonista, non della vittima".

(H. Arendt, "La banalità del male. Eichmann a Gerusalemme", trad. P. Bernardini, Milano: Universale Economica Feltrinelli, 2008 (1964), p. 17).