During the Great War, the Faculty of Law of Bologna was affected in its teaching, in the lives of its students, and in the very composition of its community. It was still an almost exclusively male world. In Italy, women were formally authorised to enrol in universities by the general regulations of 1875; Lidia Poët enrolled in law at Turin in 1877 and graduated in 1881. Their presence in law faculties nevertheless remained exceptional, all the more so as access to the legal profession remained barred to them until the law of 1919. In Bologna too, the first female students appeared in the final decades of the 19th century, but they remained a very small minority in law courses on the eve of the conflict. Thepour lire la suite…
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The Faculty of Law at Bologna before the Great War
On the eve of the outbreak of the Great War, the organisation of the Faculty of law of Bologna was governed, like the sixteen other universities of the Kingdom of Italy, by the unique text on the laws on higher education, approved by the royal decree of the 9th of August 1910, no. 795, which gathered and coordinated the previous legislation, as well as the corresponding general regulation of universities, approved by the Royal Decree no. 795 of 9 August 1910. These texts provided the mandatory teaching of eighteen fundamental subjects in order to obtain the degree of laurea. The study plan developed by the faculty of law of the Alma Mater (nickname of the University of Bologna as the oldest university in Europe) divided them over four years and alsopour lire la suite…