Tra sistema e prassi. I civilisti della facoltà di Cagliari tra Otto e Novecento

Enrico Lai and Francesco Atzeri-Vacca represent the two native civilists present in Cagliari’s law faculty between the 19th and 20th century. Lai enthusiastically opened up to German Pandettistica, attempting to construct a civilist doctrine with a national character, to the same extent as Cimbali or Chironi. This project was interrupted by his untimely death. Atzeri Vacca, on the other hand, although a pupil of Lai’s, initially appears more aloof in comparison to the professors who in the Peninsula deal with the themes that animate national science; at the same time he is very attentive to the controversial dimension of law: in his eyes, the civilist must first and foremost solve concrete problems. Arriving later than his colleagues, he nevertheless consigned to Italian science a monograph on renunciation that is still cited by civilists dealing with this institution.