B2019 - PUBLIC ECONOMIC LAW

Learning outcomes

The goal of this course is to introduce students to the relation between the legal system and the economic system, specifically to the legal aspects of market regulation and public finance in Europe.

Course contents

The course aims at providing students with the analysis and comprehension of the following topics:

1. the State intervention in economy and the role of public regulation in the organisation, managing and supply of services of general interest, especially health and social care ones in the light of EU law.

2. the legal framework of "shared administration" and public-private partnerships as alternative models to public procurement.

 

Readings/Bibliography

Students are requested to study all the following essential readings in order to prepare for the final examination and also to facilitate the discussion and participation during classes: 

1. ALCESTE SANTUARI (con William Sage) Paradigms of Healthcare Systems, Law, and Regulation: A Transatlantic Conversation, in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law, Edited by David Orentlicher and Tamara K. Hervey, Oxford University Press, 2021
2. DAVID MOSEY, What benefits are created through Collaborative Construction Procurement, in Sara Valaguzza, Collaborare nell'interesse pubblico, Editoriale Scientifica, 2019, pp. 7-12
3. ALCESTE SANTUARI, Social Enterprises and Health Care Services within the European Legal Framework, in Review of European and Comparative Law, Vol. 57, No. 2 (2024), pp. 31–54
4. ALCESTE SANTUARI, Legal and organisational innovation in the Italian pharmacy system: commercial vs public interest, in Health Economics, Policy and Law, 2017, pp. 1-19
5. SARA VALAGUZZA, EDUARDO PARISI, Public private partnerships. Governing Common Interests, EE Elgar, 2020, Chapter 2, pp. 30 - 55.

Additional readings may be provided during classes.

Teaching methods

Combination of traditional lectures, discussions and project work on public-private partnerships.

Communications and all the materials relating to classes will be uploaded on VIRTUALE. Students are strongly requested to check it out repeatedly.

Assessment methods

The final examination consists of an hour-long test, which is made up of 6 open questions concerning both the essential readings and the classes' contents. 

The examination is aimed at assessing students' personal and critical views.

  

 

Teaching tools

The articles listed in the above section titled "Readings/Bilbliography" together with some power point presentations. 

Office hours

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