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Analítico de Periódico
CHRISTANDL, Gregor
Percorsi metodologici della civilistica italiana : una breve storia a partire dal XIX secolo / Gregor Christandl
Rivista di Diritto Civile, Padova, a.66 n.1 (gennaio-febbraio 2020), p.43-71
TEORIA GERAL DO DIREITO / Itália, METODOLOGIA DO DIREITO / Itália, INTERPRETAÇÂO JURÍDICA / Itália, HERMENÊUTICA JURÍDICA / Itália, HISTÓRIA DO DIREITO / Itália
In Italy, as in other continental legal systems, it is common to refer to “legal sciences” (scienze giuridiche) with regard to legal scholarship. Since the main purpose of such a legal science is the solution of practical cases or legal problems, it requires a method, or in other words, a prescribed process of single steps that lead to a solution. It is the purpose of this article to find out whether there is any discussion of such legal methodology in Italy, what role it plays in academic legal education and how it has developed since the 19th century. If one agrees that all legal methodology comes down to methods of interpretation of the law, the history of methodology is a history of interpretation. This article therefore also recounts the major developments in the history of interpretation of Italian private law and critically assesses the latest stage of “Italian legal style” in the last fifty years.