INSTITUTIONS OF PRIVATE LAW: SPECIAL CONTRACTS, LIABILITY, OTHER SOURCES OF OBLIGATIONS. PROPERTY', FAMILY AND SUCCESSION

CODE	64898
ACADEMIC YEAR	2025/2026
CREDITS	9 cfu anno 1 GIURISPRUDENZA 11864 (LMG/01 R) - GENOVA
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR	IUS/01
LANGUAGE	Italian
TEACHING LOCATION	GENOVA
SEMESTER	2° Semester
SECTIONING	Questo insegnamento è diviso nelle seguenti frazioni: A B C
MODULES	Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: INSTITUTIONS OF PRIVATE LAW

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

General introductory notions to private law as "common" law: legal rules and interpretation, private law and public law; Sources of Private Law (decodification and recodification; European Private Law); legal categories of situations and activities of private law (legal positions and legal relations; legal case and legal effect; facts, acts, individual rights, goods); subjects of private law (individuals, capacity and incapacity; associative and institutional organizations, profit and non-profit, with legal personality and unincorporated; general introduction to business and company law, rights of the personality). Theory and general rules of obligations (rights of obligation and property rights; events of obligations; breach and liability, guarantees); contract in general (notion and fundamental principles, formation, regulation and effects; remedies).

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The aim of the class is to provided students with a basic understading of the instituions of private law, with a focus on property law, tort law, specific contracts, family law and succession law.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course will deal with the following topics:

Property and other rights on goods
Torts
Other sources of obligations
Specific contracts
Family law
Succession law

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

GIORGIO AFFERNI

Ricevimento: During the class period meetings with the teacher may be held immediately at the end of the class or may be arranged by sending an email to the teacher. Outside of class eperiod meeting may be arranged by sending an email to the teacher and will be held on Teams or in person in Via Babi 22, 4th floor.

LESSONS

LESSONS START

The beginning of classes will be comunicated through the website of the department of law.

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam is oral and consists in three/four questions on the topics that were addressed in class.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Students who have valid certification of disability or Specific Learning Desorders (DSA) on file with the University may request the use of compensatory measures during the exams (e.g. additional time, concept maps, modifications in the written/oral mode), following the guidelines (p. 5) published here. In any case, for further information, please contact the Department's disability liaison: Isa.Fanlo@unige.it