Rome Program: 2010 Curriculums and Class Schedules
Rome Schedule
Classes are tentatively scheduled Monday through Thursday as follows:
Comparative Criminal Procedure Credit Hours: 2 Comparative Law: Development of Common Law Credit Hours: 1 Comparative Law: Civil Law Tradition Credit Hours: 1 Comparative Law: Domestic Violence Credit Hours: 1 Intro. to Comparative Constitutional Law Credit Hours: (prereq.) Credit Hours: 1 Comparative Constitutional Law Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours: 1
Course Dates
Time
Classroom
Course & Credit Hrs.
Professor
Exam Date
June 21-
July 158:30-10:00
Study Hall
Carey
July 16
June 21-
July 38:30-
10:00GL2
Faught
July 2
11:00-
12:30Study Hall
McCormack
July 2
11:00-
12:30GL2
Weinberg
July 2
June 29-
July 110:15-
10:45Study Hall
Sullivan
July 5-
July 158:30-
10:00GL2
Rhodes
July 16
10:10-
11:40Study Hall
Scalia/Sullivan
July 16
11:50-
1:20GL2
Williams
July 16
Curriculum
Comparative Criminal Procedure (Carey) - Comparative Criminal Procedure is taught by Professor James P. Carey, and focuses on the salient points of comparison between the American adversarial system and the European civil law tradition, historically called an inquisitorial system. These points of comparison include the role of the judge/magistrate; the prosecutor's role and plea bargaining, the role of defense counsel, the role of evidentiary and constitutional rules of exclusion of evidence, and, as an example of the substantive criminal law, the law of rape. Course materials include a short, thoughtful critique of the American system, "Trials without Truth," by Professor William Pizzi of the University of Colorado; and a course pack of law review articles. The format is a mixture of lecture and class room discussion, including role play exercises in witness examination and argument, at trial and at motions to suppress. Three Italian guest lectures are expected to participate as in the past: a prominent magistrate; a defense lawyer/law professor, and a prominent literature/film scholar (whose focus will be on the current status of women in Italian society (relevant to our consideration of the law of rape).
Comparative Law: The Development of the Common Law (Faught) - Comparative Law: The Development of the Common Law is taught by Associate Dean James J. Faught and is a one-credit course that will expose students to the early development of the common law from the early Saxon period to the 17th revolution in English law and society. Building on that, the course will cover such topics as the evolution of the legal profession, the history of the law of equity, the origins of the common law jury and the adversary trial, and modern legal professions and practices. The goal of the course is to develop a broad historical perspective on the development of law, the practice of law and the legal profession with an emphasis on the English tradition.
International Art Law (Rhodes) - International Art Law is taught by Professor Anne-Marie Rhodes and the course will explore the international legal aspects involved in the art industry. For this one credit course, the materials will focus on the acquisition and ownership of art that crosses borders. Specific questions will include commissioning works of art, acquiring works of art privately through foreign dealers or galleries, or by way of auction, and the questions of competing title that arise over works of art or cultural property proceeding from war or peace time looting.
Comparative Law: Issues and Perspectives on Domestic Violence (Weinberg) - Comparative Law: Issues and Perspectives on Domestic Violence is taught by Professor Anita Weinberg and the course will examine the dynamics of domestic violence and compara and critique how different countries' laws recognize and respond to the problem. The course also will explore the theoretical frameworks for understading domestic violence as a violation of international human rights and the role and responsibility of governments to respond to the problem.
International Sales Law (Williams) - The International Sales is taught by Professor Neil Williams and the primary subject of the course will be the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (the "CISG"), a treaty which has been adopted by both the United States and Italy. In addition to exploring key sections of the CISG, the course will focus on important similarities and differences between the CISG and United States domestic sales law under the Uniform Commercial Code.
Comparative Constitutional Law (Sullivan) - Comparative Constitutional Law is taught by Professor Barry Sullivan and will consider the role of the courts in protecting individual rights in several constitutional systems, with special reference to other features of those systems, such as mechanisms for amending the constition.
Comparative Law: Introduction to the Civil Law Tradition (McCormack) - Comparative Law: Introduction to the Civil Law Tradition is taught by Professor John McCormack and covers the foundation of the civil law tradition. It includes Roman law and its rediscovery in Bologna in Medieval times, the development of the jus commune, the appearance of national legal systems in Europe, the codification movement and the spread of the civil law tradition throughout the world. It concludes with a focus on modern civil law legal professions, structures and institutions using the Italian legal system as a model.
Optional Field Study - Strasbourg, France
Students who take a Comparative Law Course in Rome are eligible to continue with a one-week field-study program in Strasbourg, France, focusing on the European Legal Institutions. The field study runs from July 19 – July 30, 2010.
The field study in Strasbourg will include tours of several legal institutions and some academic lectures. The legal institutions for this field study will include: The Council of Europe; The European Court of Human Rights; The European Parliament of the European Union; and additionally, a field trip to Luxembourg to visit The Court of Justice of the European Union.
Lecture Component: European Legal Institutions (Shoenberger) - 1 credit
Professor Shoenberger will provide an overview of the European Legal Institutions, with particular attention to the European Union, the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance of the EU, and the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe. Various lectures may occur in Rome that introduce students to these complex institutions. In Strasbourg, and Luxembourg, he will supplement field tours to the various institutions, including the Parliament of the European Union, with lectures and comments. Topics will include free trade in goods and services in the EU, privacy law in the EU, and EU anttrust law (which has recently resulted in large fines for major American corporations such as Microsoft) about the courts and of the European Union and the Council of Europe.
