B8239 - Law of Socially Responsible Organisations and of Legal Relations with Public Authorities

Learning outcomes

The Course is intended to provide students with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the instititutional, legal and organisational aspects of non profit organisations and co-operative societies.

Lectures will also give students the legal framework relating to the special relationships with public authorities in the supply of services of general interest.

Course contents

The Course will deal with the legal and organisational aspects of non profit organizations and of co-operative societies also in the light of EU law.

The contents that will be analysed during classes are the following:

1. Legal and historical evolution of the non profit sector in Europe and Italy
2. The different legal forms of non profit organisations
3. The 2017 Third Sector Organisations Reform Act and its impact on non profit organisations
   
4. Co-ops carrying out services of general interest
5. Shared administration

Readings/Bibliography

Compulsory text book

Alceste SANTUARI, Diritto delle organizzazioni socialmente responsabili. Manuale degli Enti del Terzo settore, delle cooperative, delle società benefit e dei loro rapporti con la P.A., Franco Angeli, Milano, 2024 (the specific chapters of the book to be studied will be singled out during classes).

Suggested readings:

1. Social Enterprises and Health Care Services within the European Legal Framework, in Review of European and Comparative Law, Vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 31-54
2. The provision of health care services to migrants in times of welfare crisis: a new role for non-governmental organisations (ngos)? the case of the italian health and legal system, in Rivista del diritto della sicurezza sociale (rdss), il mulino, n. 4/2017, pp. 715-738

Teaching methods

Lectures, group works and analysis of courts' rulings.

Assessment methods

Students are requesed to sit two written examinations, consisting of both multiple choice and open questions.

The final grade will be the result of the sum of the grades of the two exams.

Details concerning the final assessment will be communicated during lectures.

Teaching tools

Bibliography, papers, links to relevant research projects and official documents, as well as power point presentations will be made available to students on the course's website.

Office hours

See the website of Alceste Santuari