OVERVIEW

The course is about business law and company law

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at providing a general knowledge of principles and rules of commercial and corporate law, and at helping the students to develop a critical approach to regulation, taking into account the contributions of the legal scholarship, the decisions of the Courts and the economic and social impact of regulation.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The purpose of the course is to give the students a full picture of the regulation of the entrepreneur who runs the business either alone as well as through enterprises, letting further detailed analysis to other specialized courses available in the Department

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lectures

Students with disabilities, SLD or SEN

Students with disabilities, with SLD or with SEN are reminded that, to request exam accommodations, they must first upload their certification to the University website at

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At the beginning of the course, students are advised to contact the lecturer to agree on exam arrangements which, while respecting the learning objectives of the course, take individual learning needs into account.

To request compensatory tools or dispensatory measures, students with disabilities or SLD must fill in the dedicated Webform available athttps://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r02/___https://unige.it/disabilita-dsa___.Y3AxZTpib25lbGxpOmM6bzo4Mjc5MWRhMzI3ZjkwMjNjMTAyYzg0N2RjODcyYzE3Yjo3OjU2MWI6MTEzZjQ3ZDEwN2ZjNWQ0M2VkYjA1OTFmMzI1ZmRiMTAxZjMyZDUwYTU2NDVhZjM0OGJkMTg1NGQ1NWIzMGU1ODpwOlQ6Tg, at least 7 working days before the exam.

Students with SEN may instead send their request by e-mail to the lecturer, copying the Department Representative, Prof. Elena Lagomarsino, atinclusione.economia@unige.it<mailto:inclusione.economia@unige.it>, and the Inclusion Office atinclusione.studenti@info.unige.it<mailto:inclusione.studenti@info.unige.it>.

Requests from students will be assessed by the lecturer and may be approved or rejected.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

First part:

L’imprenditore. Le categorie di imprenditori. L’acquisto della qualità di imprenditore. Lo statuto dell’imprenditore commerciale. L’azienda. Brevetti, marchi, opere dell’ingegno, licenze. Le società. La società semplice. La società in nome collettivo. La società in accomandita semplice.

Second part:

La società per azioni. Le azioni. Le partecipazioni rilevanti. I gruppi di società. L’assemblea. L'amministrazione. I controlli. Il bilancio. Le modificazioni dello statuto. Le obbligazioni. Lo scioglimento delle società di capitali. La società in accomandita per azioni. La società a responsabilità illimitata. Le società cooperative. Trasformazione. Fusione. Scissione. La crisi dell’impresa e le procedure concorsuali (cenni)

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

G.F. CAMPOBASSO, Diritto commerciale, Utet, Torino, vol. 1, 2013, fino al capitolo 7 compreso; vol. 2, 2015, tutto (pp. 1-300, 305-438, 447-672)

or

MARCO CIAN (ed), Manuale di Diritto Commerciale, Giappichelli Editore, last edition published (pagg 1-78, pagg. 92-122, pagg. 249-611)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

First semester

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral dissertation

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam will be oral. There could be an optional written test at the end of the first part of the course.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Attendance: Recommended, not mandatory