OVERVIEW

The course is devoted to the regulation of commercial enterprises and companies, with particular regard to the statute of the commercial enterprise, the regulation of the company, distinctive signs and intellectual works. With regard to companies, the characteristics of the regulation of capital relations and of the organisational rules of partnerships and corporations are examined, with particular reference to the regulation of assets and the rules of corporate governance.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of the regulations governing business activities. Particular attention is paid to laboratory activities, to examine the contractual and negotiation profiles of corporate practice, and to the development of practical cases through written exercises, to stimulate the solution of legal questions.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of the regulations governing business activities. Particular attention is paid to laboratory activities, to examine the contractual and negotiation profiles of corporate practice, and to the development of practical cases through written exercises, to stimulate the solution of legal questions.

PREREQUISITES

For the purposes of propaedeuticity, it is required to have passed Institutions of Private Law and Constitutional Law in time for the call in which the commercial law exam is held.

TEACHING METHODS

The course is taught through lectures, laboratory on contractual and corporate practice and exercises for a total of 54 hours of classroom teaching. During the lectures, the theoretical outlines of the discipline and the main practical implications are explained. In the laboratory activity on contractual and corporate practice, practical simulations are carried out through classroom discussion. In the course of the exercises, written opinions on the most frequent or interesting profiles reworked by case law are carried out. The written tests are discussed in class in order to improve the ability to argue and solve the proposed case.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

PART ONE: Enterprise, company, competition

1. The entrepreneur

2. Company, distinctive signs, industrial property

3. The regulation of competition and consortia

PART TWO: Partnerships

1. Partnerships: types and classification

2. Simple and general partnerships

3. Limited partnership

PART THREE: Companies

1. The limited liability company

2. The single-member company. The new models of S.r.l

3. The joint-stock company

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

For attending students, preparation for the exam is based on the teaching materials published on AulaWeb (Lectures, Laboratory, Exercises). If the student has actively participated in the Lectures, the Laboratory and the Exercises, and is included in the list of attending students (including part-time students as workers), the exam concerns the topics covered in the lectures through the materials available on AulaWeb and those covered by M. Campobasso, Manuale di diritto commerciale, ult. ed., limited to chapters I to XIV, XVI, XVII and XXIII.
For non-attending students, the preparation of the exam is carried out on the texts edited by Vella and Bosi, "Diritto dell'impresa e dell'economia", 2017, Mulino (all chapters) together with "Diritto ed economia delle società" (limited to chapters: I. Collective enterprise and economic theory. - II. Collective enterprise and company law. - III. Partnerships. - IV. Limited Liability Company. - V. Public limited liability company. - VI. Cooperative society. - VII. Other companies with share capital. - VIII. Financial statements, statutory audits, and special-purpose assets). The teaching materials published on AulaWeb reserved for attending students cannot be used.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MICHELE SIRI (President)

ALESSIA MISTRETTA

ILARIA CERIANA (Substitute)

FRANCESCA PALAZZINI (Substitute)

THEA ROMANO' (Substitute)

FILIPPO-MARIA TURCI (Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Second semester. First lecture on Monday 14 February 2022. Updated information on the AulaWeb page.

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The examination takes the form of an oral interview, to be taken in Italian, both for the programme applicable to attending students and for the programme applicable to non-attending students. The exam, for students attending the class and for working students who participate in the exercises reserved for them, is divided into the three areas covered in class and includes a check of preparation with at least one question on the topics discussed in the class, one question on the topics discussed in the laboratory activities and one question on the cases addressed in the exercises and includes preparation on the manual limited to the parts indicated in the exam programme. The examination for non-attending students is divided into the three parts of the programme (enterprise and competition - partnership - corporation) and is prepared in the textbook as indicated in the examination programme for non-attending students.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The examination aims to test the student's understanding of the theoretical concepts as well as his ability to identify and apply the relevant rules to specific concrete cases. In particular, the test will ascertain whether the student is able to identify and define legal concepts using appropriate language and whether he/she is able to identify, distinguish, know and apply the main provisions of company and commercial law.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

Updated information on AulaWeb. For office hours, please arrange an appointment by e-mail: Michele.Siri@unige.it