Da Scialoja a Irti: la didattica del diritto romano (e non solo) nell'età della giurisdizione. Spunti per una rifessione

The author discusses the method that should guide the teaching of Roman law in law faculties today. The formula coined by Vittorio Scialoja in 1881 – «the study of the sources will make young people capable of doing it themselves» – contains the fundamental essence of the method that should be adopted in the teaching of Roman law (but not only) in law faculties in today’s age of jurisdiction. The study of the cases of Roman jurists educates the jurist’s clinical eye: the aptitude, that is, to intuit concepts in concrete factual situations and to apply to these the legal principles that govern them.