COMMERCIAL LAW I

The course is a characterising course of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Economics and Management.
It aims at explaining the enterprise and its different forms (sole proprietorship, partnership, company), and it will focus on the core legal aspects of a business. Company law will be the most significant part of the course.

1. Knowledge and understanding
1.1 Knowledge of the business activity in both forms of sole ownership and partnership.
1.2 Knowledge of the legal aspects of the business activity.
1.3 Knowledge and analysis of the organisational and functional structure of commercial companies.
2. Applied skills of knowledge and understanding
2.1 Capability of distinction of the various figures of entrepreneur on the basis of nature, dimension and form of the activity.
2.2 Capability of identification of the proper rules for every figure of entrepreneur.
2.3 Comprehension of the various forms of enterprise from the point of view of organisation and functions.
3. Evaluation
3.1 Comprehension of the text of the law.
3.2 Capability of evaluation of the legal consequences of every enterprise’s form choice.
3.3 Capability of balancing the different interests concerning the business activity in sole ownership and in partnership.
4. Communication skills
4.1 Proper reporting of the specific features of commercial law.
4.2 Critical and dialogical interaction with the examiners during the examination.

Students must know the legal instruments of the private law course.

Entrepreneur and enterprise.
Commercial and no commercial entrepreneur. Agricultural entrepreneur. The rules set forth for the commercial enterprises.
The business.
Trademarks (general principles). Competitive law (general principles).
The bank entity (general principles).
The insurance entity (general principles).
Consortium, e.e.i.g. and other types of business collaboration.
Companies and partnerships. General principles.
The partnerships.
Limited company by shares.
Shares.
Shareholders’ meeting.
Management.
Company’s supervisory bodies (statutory auditors, other supervisory bodies, accountant).
The accounting principles. Annual accounts.

GENERAL PART:
Civil code (updated edition).
AA.VV., Diritto commerciale by Lorenzo De Angelis, vol. I, Cedam, Milan, 2017: chapters I (for trademarks and competitive law, just general principles), II (general principles), III (general principles), IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI.
SPECIAL PART:
L. DE ANGELIS, Elementi di diritto contabile (IV edit.), Giuffrè, Milan, 2015, chapters I and II.
Additional learning material (such as doctrine articles, judgements, etc.) will be posted on the teacher’s website.

The final exam consists exclusively in an oral test in order to verify the knowledge and comprehension of the course contents, the proper reporting of them and the ability of consulting legal texts.

Frontal lecture and teacher-students interaction.

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