78356 - Principles of Private Law in Business

Course contents

The course is focused on the sources of private law, domestic and transnational; basic institutes, rules and principles of private law in the context of business life: property law, trust law, contract, companies, insurance law, tort law, litigation, arbitration and judical systems.

 

The second part of the course will be tought by Professor Edgardo Ricciardiello with the following program:

principles of company law; corporate governance; principles of bankruptcy law; cross border insolvency; sharing economy and crowfunding;the financial market conrtacts; the recovery and resolution directive; the first demand bank guarantee.  

Readings/Bibliography

Guido Alpa, Zeno-Zenovich, Italian Private Law, Routledge Cavendish, 2007.

Handouts, papers, slides to be found in the online materials.

Teaching methods

Lectures, analysis and class discussion of: sources of law, comparative method and language, soft law, contracts, awards, trusts, international conventions; drafting of contracts; simulation of case litigation; case solution; discussion of papers.    

Assessment methods

Written exam:

for attending students:

oral discussion of case law in class or final written dissertation;

written exam (4 multiple choice questions) on chapter I, VI and VII, according to the slides to be found on the online materials. 

for non attending students: written exam (multiple choice questions) on:

ch. 1 excluded par. 1.2, 1.6, IV excluded parr. 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7,, V excluded 5.9, VI excluded parr. 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6., 6.7, 6.9, 6.11.2, 6.12, 6.13, 6.14, 6.15  VII ecxluded parr. 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 7.14, 7.15, 7.16-7.17, 7.19, 7.20, 7.22.2, 7.23, 7.24, 7.25

Teaching tools

Lectures are also twined with slides, case law discussion, reading of judical decisions, awards, international conventions, codes, doctrinal papers, soft law, contracts.

Office hours

See the website of Paola Manes

See the website of Edgardo Ricciardiello