01261 - Family Law

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0660)

Learning outcomes

Achieve an analytic knowledge of the family law principles and the leading decisions in case law.

Course contents

- Family law in an historical prospective.

- Family law, Constitution and International law.

- The marriage.

- Personal relationships.

- Economic relationships.

- The dissolution of the marriage.

- The Economic consequences of the dissolution of the marriage.

- The civil partnership (L. n. 76/2016).  

- The reform of L. n. 219/12 and D. lgs. n. 154/2013 concerning the condition of the child.

- Assisted reproductive technologies.

- The adoption.

- The tort law in familiar relationships.

Readings/Bibliography

§                                 Michele Sesta, Manuale di diritto di famiglia, VI ed., Cedam, Padova, 2015.

§    Luigi Balestra, Unioni civili e convivenze di fatto al cospetto del "modello matrimoniale": prime riflessioni, in Giurisprudenza italiana, 2016, in corso di pubblicazione.

 For non-attending students:

§                                 Michele Sesta, Manuale di diritto di famiglia, VI ed., Cedam, Padova, 2015.

§    Luigi Balestra, Unioni civili e convivenze di fatto al cospetto del "modello matrimoniale": prime riflessioni, in Giurisprudenza italiana, 2016, in corso di pubblicazione.

§                                 Luigi Balestra, L'evoluzione del diritto di famiglia e le molteplici realtà affettive, in Rivista trimestrale di diritto e procedura civile, 2010, pp. 1105-1134.

For references:

Codice della famiglia. Schemi e tabelle, a cura di Michele Sesta, Giuffrè, Milano, 2014.   

For a deeper knowledge:

Codice della famiglia, a cura di Michele Sesta, Giuffrè, Milano, 2015.

Teaching methods

Lessons will be delivered by Prof. Luigi Balestra - owner of the Course - and by Dr. Marco Martino.

The cours will focus on the case law study.

Power point slides will summarize the most relevant principles and cases.

Students can do exams starting from January 2017.

Assessment methods

Oral exam.

The attention will focus on the skills to give a complete and accurate picture of the topics, the skill to read the particular cases in the light of general principles and the capacity to describe the cases explained in text and discussed during the lessons.

It is necessary having done before Diritto privato and Diritto costituzionale.


Teaching tools

Power point slides will summarize the most relevant principles and the leading cases

Office hours

See the website of Luigi Balestra