- Docente: Marco Torsello
- Credits: 9
- SSD: IUS/02
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Marco Torsello (Modulo 1) Maura Alessandri (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0660)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at providing students with the basic notions
necessary to understand the mechanics of the law governing
transnational legal relationships, with particular emphasis on
international business transactions. The fundamentals of contract,
tort and property shall be analyzed both from a comparative
perspective, by highlighting how different national legal solutions
may apply beyond the borders of the legal system of origin
according to conflict-of-laws rules, and from the perspective of
the progressive supranational harmonization of private law. The
course will extensively be based on a casuistic approach, thus
comparing cases and materials from different legal systems in order
to provide students with legal tools necessary to deal with issues
related with the incresing globalization of private law.
Course contents
1. - The Methodology of Comparative Law. 2. - The Western Legal
Tradition: Similarities and Differences between Common Law and
Civil Law Legal Systems. 3. - Contracts: Notion and Binding Force.
4. - Contracts: Formation and Validity. 5. - Contracts: Breach,
Liability, Exemption and Remedies. 6. - Property: Notion, Means of
Acquiring Ownership, Fiduciary Ownership and Trust. 7. - Torts: The
Structure of the Law of Tort. 8. - Torts: Functional Policy
Considerations and Scope of the Rights Protected. 9. Comparative
Law, Uniform Law and Private International Law. 10. - Introduction
to Uniform Commercial Law Conventions. 11. - The 1980 Vienna
Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).
12. - The UNIDROIT Principles on International Commercial
Contracts.
Readings/Bibliography
In Italian:
Francesco Galgano (ed.) Atlante di diritto privato comparato, 4° ed., Zanichelli, Bologna, 2006, pp. 1-165 e 189-232.
Franco Ferrari (a cura di), Le convenzioni di diritto del commercio internazionale. Codice essenziale con regolamenti comunitari e note introduttive, 2° ed., Giuffrè, Milano, 2002, pp. 1-225.
Additional recommended readings:
Albina Candian e Antonio Gambaro, Casi e materiali per un
corso di diritto privato comparato. Le tradizioni di Common law e
di Civil Law, Giappichelli, Torino, 2008.
Guido Alpa, Michael J. Bonell, Diego Corapi, Luigi Moccia, Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich e Andrea Zoppini, Diritto privato comparato. Istituti e problemi, Laterza, Bari, 2008.
In English:James Gordley and Arthur Taylor von Mehren, An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Private Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006.
Marco Torsello, Common Features of Uniform Commercial Law Conventions, Sellier, Munich, 2004.
Teaching methods
The course will combine lecture-type classes and classes conducted
with socratic method.
The course will take place in the spring semester.
Assessment methods
Profit assessment will be based on class participation and on a
final oral exam.
Teaching tools
Presentations and teaching materials will be provided during the
course.
Office hours
See the website of Marco Torsello
See the website of Maura Alessandri