The San Marino Legal Institute was founded in 1986 with the aim of promote legal culture and spread knowledge of the San Marino legal system and institutions. Since 1992 the Institute has been part of the University and currently operates within the Department of Historical and Legal Studies. Over the years the San Marino Legal Institute has dealt with training, professional updating and international scientific comparison; he elaborated the systematic, maximized and commented collection of jurisprudence of the Republic, publishing it in 10 volumes, from 1911 to 1995 and on the San Marino Jurisprudence Portal from 1995 to the present day. The sectors involved are civil, criminal, tax, administrative and the Supervisory Board (the latter only for the time period 2003-2007). The Institute also has to its credit the publication of approximately 50 works of legal doctrine.
The was established in 2009 San Marino School of High Specialization for Legal and Economic Professions, in collaboration with the San Marino Professional Orders and in partnership with the “Carlo Bo” University of Urbino, which arrived in the academic year. 2023/24 in its seventh edition.
In 2018 the direction of the Legal Institute was entrusted to Prof. Paolo Pascucci, who succeeded the late Prof. Lanfranco Ferroni, and expanded his field of interest to Administrative Sciences signing collaboration protocols with IISA (International Institute of Administrative Sciences) and the General Directorate of Public Function. This is how the Course was born Specialization and the Master "Managerial practices in the PA" now in their third edition (academic year 2024/25).
Tasks and Objectives
La Law 13/12/2022 n. 165 Article 2 details precisely i tasks of the San Marino Legal Institute:
- takes care of the online publication of a selected collection of Sammarinese jurisprudence;
- carries out research on legal topics;
- designs and organizes training activities in legal and economic matters;
- organizes conferences and seminars on current legal issues;
- promotes the publication of texts and periodicals on Sammarinese law;
- assists the bodies of the University of the Republic of San Marino in legal matters;
- provides support to the institutions of San Marino in relation to the process of adapting the San Marino legal system to European Union law;
- formulates, pursuant to Article 3, technical-legal scientific opinions on proposed laws,
adding to them, with art.3, the responsibility of technical-legal scientific opinions for the legislative initiative.
The San Marino Legal Institute prepares and processes the systematic and particular collection of the laws of the Republic; takes care of the publication of these collections and of San Marino civil, criminal, administrative jurisprudence and works of legal doctrine; organizes and promotes conferences and seminars on legal topics of primarily San Marino interest. It organizes theoretical-practical courses for practicing lawyers and notaries together with their respective orders.
The Institute's vocation for study, research and dissemination is expressed in the numerous publications it publishes; in particular, it provided for the assembly and publication of the following jurisprudential collections:
- Criminal Jurisprudence 1964-1990
- Administrative Jurisprudence 1990-1999
- Civil Law 1991-1995
- Jurisprudence of the Guarantor Board 2003-2007