low literacy

The hopeless lack of law literacy of the Italians, even the more educated, has always been a surprise to me. A surprise, since the rule of law was invented by te Romans and the common law which is the base of the rule of law in the Anglo-Saxon world is fundamentally nothing else than the Corpus Juris with some adaptations.
This lack of literacy is probably due to the fact that in Italian high school law is not taught - in fact people following vocational studies, where law is part of the curricula, jave a good basic grasp of the subject. But probably other reasons are also involved - in particular the fact that a few of the fundamental principles of the rule of law, such as "all are equal for the law" is drastic ally at odd with the basic tenets of Italian ideaology.