Fundamentals of Roman Private Law

Major: Law
Code of subject: 6.081.00.O.012
Credits: 4.00
Department: Department of Theory of Law and Constitutionalism
Lecturer: Makarchuk Volodymyr
Semester: 2 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: Integral competence (INT): Ability to solve complex specialized problems and practical problems in the field of professional legal activity or in the learning process, which involves the application of legal doctrines, principles and legal institutions and is characterized by complexity and uncertainty of conditions. General competencies (GC): GC1. Ability to abstract thinking, analysis and synthesis; GC.12. Ability to be aware of equal opportunities and gender issues. Special (professional) competencies (SC): SC2. Knowledge and understanding of the retrospective of the formation of legal and state institutions; SC13. Ability to critically and systematically analyze legal phenomena and apply the acquired knowledge in professional activities; SC6. Evaluate the disadvantages and advantages of arguments by analyzing a known problem. Program results (PR): PR3. Conduct collection and integrated analysis of materials from various sources; PR4. Formulate own reasonable judgments based on the analysis of a known problem; PR6. Evaluate the disadvantages and advantages of arguments by analyzing a known problem. PR16. Explain the nature and content of basic legal phenomena and processes; PR28. Analyze the history of the formation of legal phenomena. Communication (COM): COM 4. Explain the nature of certain events and processes with an understanding of the professional and social context.
Required prior and related subjects: The previous subjects: History of state and law of Ukraine, Juridical deontology, Theory of state and law. Related and following disciplines: Constitutional law of Ukraine, History of the state and law of foreign countries, Philosophy of law
Summary of the subject: The dominant place of the Roman state in the Аncient world is due to the perfection and fairness of its legal system compared to the law of neighbors. That is, the power of Rome is not so much in the power of arms as in the power of its laws. Roman private law set itself the task not so much to please all the inhabitants of the empire without exception, as to remove their doubts about the validity of current rules. Knowledge of Roman private law is necessary for a better understanding of the principles of modern civil law. The study of foreign law is impossible without knowledge of Roman private law, its reception and borrowing; the same applies to international law. The discipline «Fundamentals of Roman Private Law» consists of two parts. In the first part of the subject, sources and significance of the study of Roman private law. The second part of the legal regulation of property and related non-property relations under Roman private law, specifies the basic provisions of family, property, contract and inheritance law of the Roman state.
Assessment methods and criteria: Evaluation of student learning results is carried out in accordance with a 100-point score of assessment established at the university. The final assessment of the discipline consists of an assessment of the current control of learning outcomes during the semester. The number of points allocated to the current control in practical (seminar) classes is 40 points, implementation of individual work – 10 points, individual control work – 50. Maximum score in scores together for discipline – 100 points.
Recommended books: 1. Makarchuk V.S. Fundamentals of Roman private law: a textbook. Kyiv : Atika, Kharkiv: Pravo, 2015. 256 p. 2. Orach EM, Tyshchyk BY Fundamentals of Roman private law: a course of lectures; Ivan Franko Lviv State University. Kyiv : Jurinkom Inter, 2000. 272 p. 3. Pidoprigora O.A. Fundamentals of Roman private law. Kyiv : Higher school, 1995. 264 p. 4. Pidoprigora O.A., Kharitonov E.A. Roman law: a textbook. Kyiv : Jurinkom Inter, 2014. 525 p. 5. Kharitonov E.A. History of private law in Europe: Western tradition. Odessa, 2001. 328 p. 6. Kharitonov E.A. Roman private law: Lecture notes. Workshop. Kharkiv, 2000. 272 p. 7. Kharitonov E.A. Fundamentals of Roman private law: a guide for classroom and independent study of the course. Odessa: V. Bukaev, 2016. 395 p.