Prof. Vano's Lectures: Law and Cinema

Dear all,
here some information about Prof. Vano's lessons, readings and C.V.. We are finally arrived at the end of our Law and the Humanities course of lessons, but don't forget the important, conclusive lesson by Prof. Kiesow on May the 28th. Probably the lesson will take place a little bit earlier, at 12:00, but it is very important that you will be there. So...don't forget to have a look at the blog!

Abstract:

Roma tre, May 21-23, 2008
Law & Cinema. Chaplin’s Modern Times: a “deep sense of unlawfullness”

May 21, 2008
Film screening
Modern Times (1936)
Directed by Ch. Chaplin

Short Introduction: The Universe of industrial Labour, Cinema and Legal History

May 22 -23, 2008
Discussion about the movie and selection of the principle themes of legal historical relevance.
From Europe to America and Back to Europe.
Chaplin and the American working class
Observations upon Max Weber’s view of the American labour relations

Readings:

Steven J. Ross, Struggles for the screen: Workers, Radicals, and the political Uses of Silent Film, in The American Historical Review, vol. 96, n. 2 (1991), pp.333-367

Carlo Nitsch, Prospettive dalla riflessione weberiana sulle condizioni di lavoro negli Stati Uniti, in Materiali per una storia della cultura giuridica moderna, 2007 /2, pp.337 ss.

C.V.:

Cristina Vano
Associate Professor, since 2002, of Medieval and Modern Legal History at the Law Faculty of the University of Naples "Federico II". Member of the academic committee of the Research Doctorate in “Roman Law and Roman Law Tradition: the foundations of European law”. Member of the editorial board of the journal “Scienza & politica” (1993-2006) and of "Index. International Survey of Roman Law",(since 2001). She spent long periods of research in Italian and foreign Research Institutes such as: the Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento (1986), University of Berlin (1987, 1990), University of Trier (1991-1992), the Institut für Römisches und gemeines Recht di Göttingen (1994), the University of California at Berkeley, Robbins Collection, (1996) and above all at the Max Planck Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt am Main. Member of several international research groups, she taught courses and delivered conferences in many Universities in Italy and abroad (Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Portugal). Her research focuses on Savigny and the Historical School with special regard to the construction processes of European nineteenth century legal science and to the communication strategies of scientific knowledge. Her book Il nostro autentico Gaio. Strategie della scuola storica alle origini della romanistica moderna (Napoli 2000) has been recently translated into german (Frankfurt 2008). Moreover she is interested in the history of Italian and European juridical culture of the XIX and XX century, with particular attention for such themes as the use of comparative methods, the professionalization of the jurist, the history of Labour Law.