78356 - Principles of Private Law in Business

Learning outcomes

The course is aimed at offering a general overview of private law and functioning of its tools in business relations, pieces of national and international legislation and legal instruments which are most relevant for the tourism sector. More precisely, the objective is to provide the students with the necessary tools for a full understanding of the mechanisms governing private law relations and the tourism related Il Coordinatore Il Segretario (Alireza J. Naghavi) (Elias Carroni) facets of the latter, including the juridical analysis of new phenomena, such as the relevance of privacy in tourism sector and of the so-called Smart Tourism Destinations. The impacts of the new technological phenomena on tourism will be analyzed under the perspective of private law. The course will familiarize students with the use of basic legal principles necessary for business operators acting at the national and international level within the sector of tourism.

Course contents

The course will provide, in the first and general part, an overview of the different approaches available to identify the rules governing cross-border commercial relations, given the existence of relevant differences in domestic legal systems. In this respect, it will provide an overview of:

• civil law and common law;
• law and society;
• law and technology;
• sources of law;
• contracts;
• international contracts in the field of tourism;
  
• trust and property;
  
• data protection, privacy and tourism;
• personal rights;
• private law issues and technology in the field of tourism

The second part is specifically dedicated to the analysis of the EU legislation in the field of tourism. This course will help student to acquire ability with the use of basic legal principles necessary to business operators acting at the national and international level (especially the field of tourism and hospitality) and the ability to understand the rules of private law and to apply them to resolve legal problems.

Readings/Bibliography

Alpa- Zeno- Zencovich, Italian Private Law, Routledge, 2007;

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS: pp.1-18; 19-26; 29; 41-46; 79-83; 93-100; 107-118; 157-177; 214-225; 231-233.

ATTENDING STUDENTS: 9-10; 29; 41-46; 107-112; 157-161; 200-203; 214-222; 231-233.

Suggested: Sirena, Introduction to Private Law, Il Mulino, 2021;

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS: Chap. 1: par. 1, 2, 3, 4; Chap. 4; Chap. 6; Chap. 8.

Teaching methods

The class format will combine a short lecture-style introduction and subsequent discussion.

A Socratic method will primarily be adopted and Students are thus expected to prepare for and to participate in individual or group class discussions on a regular basis.

The course is also based on a case law method.

Slides will be available after the lectures.

Assessment methods

Attending students’s grades will be based on participation to class discussion with a mandatory case presentation in the first and in the second part of the course, as well as on a final exam.

Attending students: case presentation in class and final closed book written exam. The closed book written exam will consist

15 multiple choice questions.

Every correct answer counts 2 points, every missing or wrong answer counts 0 points.

The final score will consist on the average between the score of the presentations and the score of the final written exam.

Attendance will be checked randomly during the lssons.

Non attending students’s grades will be based on a written exam.

The closed book written exam (20 min.) will consist of 15 multiple choice questions.

Every correct answer counts 2 points, every missing or wrong answer counts 0 points.
Only the students that correctly answer at least 9/15 questions will pass the exam.

Grade rejection

Students can reject the grade obtained at the exam. To this end, he/she must email a request to the instructor within the date set for registration.

In case online exams will be envisaged by the University, the structure of the written exam is the same. The exam will be run through Teams and Exams Online (EOL). Detailed instructions on how to manage and hand in the online exam are available on the course page on the VIRTUALE platform.

 

Teaching tools

Excerpts, handouts, slides, contracts, case law, papers to be found on the online materials accessible via Professor's website.

Students needing compensatory tools due to disabilities or learning disabilities (SLD) should inform the Professor about their necessities. Therefore, they will be addressed to their referent to arrange the adoption of the proper devices.

Office hours

See the website of Caterina Del Federico