• Vita

    Since 2021 Senior assistant professor at the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II. Main course: Roman Law and Roman Legal Tradition at the M.A. in Historical Sciences. Member of the Academic Board of the PhD Program in Historical Studies. Former research assistant at the Institutes for Legal History of the Universities of Cologne, Gottingen and Münster. Education: Law Degree at the University of Naples Federico II. Postgraduate studies in Roman law at the Universities of Rome, Heidelberg and the IUSS Pavia. PhD in Law (Cologne 2009), Habilitation (Italy 2018) in Roman and Ancient Law. Awards: MSCA Seal of Excellence (2021); Special Prize ‘Hans Ankum’ at the XI International Romanistic Prize G. Boulvert (2019).

  • Research Project

    The Dialectic of Privilege. A Manifold Exception becomes a Dynamic Ordering Factor

    Working hypothesis: An extraordinary legal concept in a legal-pluralist society becomes an essential ordering factor in a legal-pyramidal society.

    The word privilege first appears in Roman antiquity to denounce a legal measure against individuals. The concept, which probably originated in the socio-political movement to enforce political equality, was interpreted by Cicero in the sense of the art of legislation according to Greek models as a law for an individual case. Its use by the imperial administration in the sense of legal prerogative increased in the classical period. On the other hand, classical jurisprudence coined the competing concept of ius singulare to designate the special rights of individual communities and groups. Its systematic use by the later imperial legislation emphasized the role of privilege in the legal order of late antiquity, and word and concept gradually emerged as a general tool for shaping legal diversity. The privileged church granted privileges as well, and in ecclesiastical legal practice, privilege gradually developed to an own legal source. Arranging the diversity of conflicting claims formulated by the different privileges became the task of legal science and practice in the medieval golden age of privileges.

  • Selected Publications

    Marino, Salvatore, Il ruolo del tribunato della plebe e il potere del senato sulla legislazione alla luce delle iniziative legislative del tribuno Gaio Cornelio nel 67 a.C, in: Buongiorno, Pierangelo/ Schettino, Maria Teresa (Hrsg.), Poteri pubblici, conflitti istituzionali e cultura politica dopo Silla, Macerata 2023, 107–143.

    Marino, Salvatore, Ius quod necessitas constituit, Senatusconsultum est. Jacques Cujas und die Grundlage der normativen Befugnis des Römischen Senats, in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung 139 (2022), 290–337.

    Marino, Salvatore, Centro e periferia in età sillana. Il sc. de Stratonicensibus, in: Buongiorno, Pierangelo/ Camodeca, Giuseppe (Hrsg.): Die senatus consulta in den epigraphischen Quellen, Stuttgart 2021, 245–293.

    Marino, Salvatore, Sull’accessorietà del pegno per la giurisprudenza romana, Neapel 2018.

    Marino, Salvatore, La (doppia) negazione mancante in Scaev. D. 46,3,93,1-2 e in Pap. D. 46,3,95,3. La confusa tradizione testuale in tema di riunione di debitore e fideiussore, in: Bullettino dell’Istituto di Diritto Romano "Vittorio Scialoja" 111 (2017), 207–235.

    Marino, Salvatore, Studio sulle proposizioni relative e condizionali nel linguaggio legislativo romano, in: Quaderni Lupiensi di Storia e Diritto 7 (2017), 91–126.