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85752 - Product Safety, Product Liability and Automotive M

Academic Year 2026/2027

                
                        Docente:
                        Enrico Al Mureden
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        GIUR-01/A
                    
                        Language:
                        English
                    
                        Moduli:
                        
                            Enrico Al Mureden
                            (Modulo 1)
                        
                            Matteo De Pamphilis
                            (Modulo 2)
                        
                        Teaching Mode:
                        In-person learning (entirely or partially)
                        
                                    In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 1); 
                                
                                    In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 2)
                                
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Electric Vehicle Engineering (cod. 6713)

                                        Course Timetable
                                    
from Sep 17, 2026 to Nov 13, 2026

                                        Course Timetable
                                    
from Nov 19, 2026 to Dec 18, 2026

Learning outcomes

The main purpose of the course is to provide students with a thorough knowledge of the core concepts of tort law in the automotive industry issues not only from a national perspective but also from the perspective of the harmonization of European Union Law and the US legal system. The course aims at providing the student with a general knowledge of basic principles and concepts of European Union and US tort law and consumer protection law focused on the automotive industry issues. It also focuses on Corporate social responsibility and environmental and technological innovation issues that the automotive industry faces. Using the method of the economic analysis of law, the current UE and US legal system will be evaluated in the light of a pragmatic proposal to check that the basic liability law can still function properly in the light of rapid changes to some of the products that it covers. The attention will focuses on the new issues arising from highly automated vehicles. In this prospective it will be investigated the role of the precautionary principle governing the UE consumer protection law, and the risks development doctrine which can be seen as a limit to the manufacturer liability. The automotive litigation prospective also leads to focus the attention on class action and punitive damages which play a crucial role in the American legal system and are not still implemented in UE legal system. At the end of the course the student is expected to become familiar with the legal notions of producer, consumer, tort law, damage, product liability law and product safety law governing the automotive industry, in order to observe the problem of the automotive litigation in a globalized prospective. At the end of the course the student is expected to become familiar with the legal notions of producer, consumer, tort law, damage, product liability law and product safety law governing the automotive industry, in order to observe the problem of the automotive litigation in a globalized prospective.

Syllabus

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