AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students with not only the institutional notions relating to the program, but also the ability to use these notions to construct a legal argument relating to specific cases. The main purpose of both modules of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge, study methods and interpretative tools to be able to independently identify, understand and apply the regulatory provisions that regulate the conduct of legal relationships between private parties. More specifically, the course aims to provide students with an understanding of the system of the civil code, to familiarize them with its consultation, with the technical-legal terminology and, through some case examples, with the application of legal reasoning.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Private law in the legal system and its sources.

Legal situations; subjective rights; legal relationships; the circulation of rights.

The subjects of law: natural persons and organizations.

Personality rights.

Obligations.

Contracts.

Protection of rights. Book VI of the civil code.

TEACHING METHODS

Module 1 of the course is delivered with lectures for a total of 54 hours (equal to 9 credits), during which the main theoretical notions of the Institutions of Private Law will be presented and analyzed, but in which some examples and practical cases taken from the most recent jurisprudence will also be proposed and discussed. Occasionally, scholars or professionals may be invited to give a lecture on topics of particular interest and relevance to allow students to acquire greater awareness of the interpretative and applicative dimension of the subject.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Module I of the Private Law course covers the following thematic areas:

The law.- The sources of private law and its supranational uniformity.

The rights.- Legal situations; subjective rights; assets and patrimony.

The subjects.- Natural persons; personality rights; organizations.

The obligations.- Types of obligations; the debtor's patrimonial liability and the protection of credit.

The contract.- The essential requirements; the formation of the contract; pre-contractual liability; the effects of the contract; the determination of the contractual regulation; representation; simulation; invalidities; rescission; resolutions.

The protection of rights. Jurisdictional protection. Evidence.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

For attending students (i.e. present at least 2/3 of the attendance surveys)::

-V. ROPPO, Diritto Privato, Giappichelli, Turin, latest edition editio major, in the parts corresponding to the topics covered in module I (part I, all; part II, all; part III, all; part V, all; part VI, all)

-also the essay by P. RESCIGNO, Introduzione al diritto privato, in E. Gabrielli (ed.), Diritto privato, Turin, 2024, pp. 1-59, which will be made available on Aulaweb;

-civil code in the most recent edition.

Non-attending students: must add to the above-mentioned texts the supplementary readings that will be uploaded to Aula web.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

The course will take place in the first semester according to the timetable that will be published in due course.

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam is held orally on the dates scheduled in the calendar.

The oral exam is normally divided into 3/4 questions: the first more general and the others of a more specific nature. In addition to the knowledge of the individual institutes, the student's ability to connect the notions and to reason about applicable cases and rules is appreciated.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam aims to verify that the student is able to orient himself in the private legal system, knows its categories and institutions and has acquired the ability to apply rules and disciplines to specific cases.