Aggiornato A.A. 2015-2016
Private Law
(Prof.ssa Benedetta Sirgiovanni)
Teaching Staff responsible for the Course:
Prof. BenedettaSirgiovanni
Pre-requisites for the Course:
No prerequisites
Learning Objectives
The general goal of the course is to familiarize the students with the basic concepts of Italian private law within the European framework. The course is aimed atacquiring skills in interpreting and usingprivate sources in order to solve elementary legal cases.
Course Description
The course will be focused on the natural persons, legal entities, property interests, obligation law, contract law and tort law, taking into account the direct influence of EU's legislation and the most recent developments in the progressive harmonization and unification process of European private law.
Topics include:
· The private law rule
· Legal rule’s structure
· Interpretation of statute
· Legal situations
· Legal facts and acts
· Natural persons and legal entities
· Ownership and property interests
· Possession and usucaption
· Law of obligations: sources -structure - performance - default - liability.
· Law of contracts: enforceability of promises - notion of agreement - nominate and innominate contracts - requisites of the contract - formation of contract: offer and acceptance - pre-contractual duty to inform - liability for breaking off negotiations – representation - contract interpretation (construction) - invalidity - termination non negotiated contracts –Unidroit Principles - Principles of European Contract Law (PECL).
· Law of torts: general provision of article 2043 c.c. - strict liability vs. negligence - causation - compensation - damages - joint and several liability - vicarious liability - environmental liability - products liability.
· Security
· Sale of goods - International sale of goods (CISG) – consumer selling
· Draft Common Frame of reference: the purposes of this academic text, the approach adopted to build a common private law.
Teaching methods
The teacher will use slides during the lesson and shall give some legal cases. Students will be involved in the solution of legal casesusing brainstorming techniques.
Reference textbook
G. Iudica, P. Zatti, Language and Rules of Italian Private Law. An Introduction, Edited by A.P. Scarso, Padua, 2013, Chapters: 1 – 19 (N.B.: in chapter 6, only paragraphs 1, 2, 3, in chapter 18, only paragraphs 1-2).
Other learning sources
Civil code: Italian and English version
Exam
Written exam
Aggiornato A.A. 2015-2016
Private Law
(Prof.ssa Benedetta Sirgiovanni)
Teaching Staff responsible for the Course:
Prof. BenedettaSirgiovanni
Pre-requisites for the Course:
No prerequisites
Learning Objectives
The general goal of the course is to familiarize the students with the basic concepts of Italian private law within the European framework. The course is aimed atacquiring skills in interpreting and usingprivate sources in order to solve elementary legal cases.
Course Description
The course will be focused on the natural persons, legal entities, property interests, obligation law, contract law and tort law, taking into account the direct influence of EU's legislation and the most recent developments in the progressive harmonization and unification process of European private law.
Topics include:
· The private law rule
· Legal rule’s structure
· Interpretation of statute
· Legal situations
· Legal facts and acts
· Natural persons and legal entities
· Ownership and property interests
· Possession and usucaption
· Law of obligations: sources -structure - performance - default - liability.
· Law of contracts: enforceability of promises - notion of agreement - nominate and innominate contracts - requisites of the contract - formation of contracts: offer and acceptance - pre-contractual duty to inform - liability for breaking off negotiations –representation - contract interpretation (construction) - invalidity - termination– non negotiated contracts - Unidroit Principles - Principles of European Contract Law (PECL).
· Law of torts: general provision of article 2043 c.c. - strict liability vs. negligence - causation - compensation - damages - joint and several liability - vicarious liability - environmental liability - products liability.
· Security
· Sale of goods - International sale of goods (CISG) – consumer selling
· Draft Common Frame of reference: the purposes of this academic text, the approach adopted to build a common private law.
Teaching methods
The teacher will use slides during the lesson and shall give some legal cases. Students will be involved in the solution of legal casesusing brainstorming techniques.
Reference textbook
G. Iudica, P. Zatti, Language and Rules of Italian Private Law. An Introduction, Edited by A.P. Scarso, Padua, 2013, Chapters: 1 – 19 (N.B.: in chapter 6, only paragraphs 1-3, in chapter 18, only paragraphs 1-2)
Other learning sources
Civil code: Italian and English version
Exam
Written exam
Prof.ssa Lucia Leonelli
