04519 - Business Law

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide students with a reference framework for the evolution of the intervention of public authorities in the economy within the more general constitutional principles of the State. At the end of the course, the student will be able to: (a) identify the main paths set by the State to intervene in the economy, so as not to rely exclusively on the logic of the market; (b) consciously and critically identify the means and tools made available by law for public intervention in the economy; (c) understand the role of Public Administrations within the constitutional discipline and special sector disciplines (in particular the one regulating public procurements).

Course contents

The course aims to analyze the general issues of Law of Economics and, among them, the principles that regulate the intervention of the State in the economy.

In particular, the following topics will be examined:

- State, sovereignty and supranational / international organizations;

- territory and sovereignty in the global economy;

- the relations between the State and the European Union;

- the relations between State and economy: forms of State and forms of market;

- the sources of law in the Italian and EU legal systems;

- the market in the Constitution and the "rereading" of the Italian “economic constitution”. Market regulation;

- the forms of government;

- the State apparatus and public entities;

- constitutional bodies and bodies of constitutional relevance (with particular regard to the Parliament, the Government and the President of the Republic) and their functions;

- the State as community: territorial autonomies in the Constitution. The regions and the local public entities;

- the Public Administration;

- the consitutional justice;

- the independent authorities.

Readings/Bibliography

T. Groppi - A. Simoncini, Introduzione allo studio del diritto pubblico e delle sue fonti, Torino, Giappichelli, 2023.

The manual is to be studied in its entirety, with the exclusion of Chapter VI.

Teaching methods

Traditional lectures

Assessment methods

The exam is aimed at evaluating the skills and the critical abilities developed by the students

The exam is oral.

It is not possible to bring books, personal notes or electronic devices in the exam. Registration for the exam is compulsory, and students have to register through AlmaEsami [https://almaesami.unibo.it/almaesami/welcome.htm]

As for the gradation of the vote, expressed out of thirty, the following general criteria are used:

Insufficient: 0-17 Insufficient and inadequate knowledge of the topics contained in the program, gaps in the program, overall incorrect language

Sufficient: 18-20 Sufficient knowledge of the topics contained in the program and overall correct language

Fair: 21-23 Fair knowledge of the topics contained in the program, fair ability to deepen and analyze some specific parts, overall correct language

Good: 24-26 Good knowledge of the topics contained in the program, good in-depth and analysis skills on the different specific parts of the program, good analytical and critical skills, overall correct and technically adequate language

Distinguished: 27-28 More than good knowledge of all the topics contained in the program, good in-depth and analysis skills on the different specific parts of the program, good connection skills between the different topics, good analytical and critical skills, overall correct and technically adequate language, with a good command of specific technical terminology

Great: 29-30 Excellent knowledge of all the topics contained in the program, excellent ability to deepen and analyze the different specific parts of the program, excellent skills in connecting the different topics, excellent analytical and critical skills, overall correct and technically adequate language, with mastery more than good of the specific technical terminology Excellent:

30L Excellent knowledge of all the topics contained in the program, excellent ability to deepen and analyze the different specific parts of the program, excellent ability to connect between the different topics, excellent ability to analyze and criticize, overall correct and technically adequate language, with excellent mastery of specific technical terminology

Teaching tools

Papers

Office hours

See the website of Nicola Soldati

See the website of Alessandra Filice