AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Types and classes of contracts (sale, lease, provision of services and works, mandate and agency, transportation, storage, surety, settlement, insurance, consumer contracts, subcontracting); civil liability and remedies for damages; other sources of obligations (administration of business of others, restitutions, unjust enrichment, unilateral promises, debt securities). Property law (in the Constitution, in the code, in special legislation); joint ownership, minor property rights, possession; family law; succession because of death.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students with basic knowledge that will enable them to understand and acquire legal technical terminology and certain abstract legal categories (such as the concept of a legal person), with a focus on the following topics:

• Private law within the legal system and its sources;

• Legal situations, subjective rights, legal relationships, and the transfer and evolution of rights;

• Judicial protection and evidence;

• Legal subjects: natural persons and organizations;

• Personality rights;

• Obligations;

• Contracts in general.

Through class attendance, individual study, and participation in additional learning activities offered during the course, students will be able to:

• Understand and recall legal provisions concerning the main institutions of civil law and the rules governing private relationships;

• Comprehend the structure and functioning of the private law system and recognize the significance and relevance of private law protection;

• Identify, interpret, and apply the appropriate legal rules to resolve concrete cases of conflict between private individuals;

• Read and critically analyze legal texts and scholarly articles on civil law issues, as well as judgments issued by lower courts, higher courts, or the Constitutional Court concerning private law matters;

• Express themselves using appropriate legal terminology.

TEACHING METHODS

The course is delivered through face-to-face lectures, totaling 54 hours (equivalent to 9 ECTS credits), during which the main theoretical concepts of Private Law Institutions will be presented and analyzed. In addition, examples and practical cases drawn from the most recent case law will also be proposed and discussed

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Required textbooks for attending students (i.e., those present for at least two-thirds of the attendance checks):

• V. Roppo, Diritto Privato, Giappichelli, Turin, 2024, limited to the parts corresponding to the topics covered in Module I (Part I: entire; Part II: entire; Part III: entire; Part V: entire; Part VI: entire).

• Two cases of the student’s choice from: A.M. Benedetti, Il contratto. Itinerari giurisprudenziali, Giappichelli, Turin, 2024.

Required textbooks for non-attending students:

• V. Roppo, Diritto Privato, Giappichelli, Turin, 2024, limited to the parts corresponding to the topics covered in Module I (Part I: entire; Part II: entire; Part III: entire; Part V: entire; Part VI: entire).

• A.M. Benedetti, Il contratto. Itinerari giurisprudenziali, Giappichelli, Turin, 2024.

For all students:

• Italian Civil Code, latest available edition.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam consists of an oral interview that includes questions which may cover the entire course syllabus.