PRIVATE LAW - 1

Private Law is a mandatory course of the Bachelor in Business Administration.
The course will provide to students the basic principles and institutions of private law, in order to understand their functions of socio-economic tools, both in personal and in property relations.
To reach this scope, it is necessary to acquire an adequate technical and juridical language and the ability to analyse human facts and relations, both personal or economic, from a juridical point of view

1. Knowledge and understandings
1.1 Understand the multilevel legal system which governs the today private relationships.
1.2 Knowledge of the private legal institutions object of the program of the course.
1.3 Understand the role of the studied legal institutions and how they govern private relationships and conflicts.

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understandings
2.1 Ability to set human relationship with juridical relevance, both personal and economic, in the legal frame.
2.2 Ability to find the legal provisions applicable to a certain situation.
2.3 Ability to determine which legal provision finds application to solve conflicts or regulate a certain human relationship (both economic and personal).

3. Judgment
3.1 Being able to interpret legal provisions.
3.2 Being able to identify, distinguish, relate different principles and legal provisions belonging to different sources of the multilevel system.
3.3 Facing a hypothetical conflict o private relationship, finding the provisions or the institutions to solve or manage the situation.

None prerequisite is required

• Modern legal systems. Structure, interpretation and application of the legal provision. Sources of law.
• Legal situations. Legal persons: natural and juridical persons. Family law.
• Legal goods. Property, possession and other rights in rem.
• Obligations: structure, fulfilment, events, extinction and contractual liability.
• Private autonomy and circulation of goods. Contract law (physiology and pathology of contracts). Specific contracts. Consumer law.
• Civil liability and tort law.
• Obligations' specific sources.
• Inheritance law. Donations.
• Protection of rights.

Students may choose one of the following textbooks, listed in alphabetic order:

a) V. Roppo, Diritto privato. Linee essenziali, V edizione, Giappichelli, 2018, ad eccezione delle seguenti parti: cap.33, par. da 13 a 20; cap.34, par.5,6,8; cap.35, par.5,6 e da 9 a 23; cap.36; cap.41.

b) G. Iudica, P. Zatti, Linguaggio e regole del diritto privato, IX edizione, Cedam, 2018 escluse le seguenti parti: cap. 24, par. 5-6-7; cap. 25, par. 4-5-6; cap. 26, par. 2-4-5-6-7-8-9; cap. 27; cap. 29; da cap. 31 a cap. 37; da cap. 39 a cap. 42; cap. 47 e cap. 48.

The study of the textbook needs to be supported by an ongoing consultation of an updated Italian Civil Code, e-book or hard copy.
It is suggested one of the following:

Codice civile, a cura di Adolfo Di Majo, Milano, Giuffré, last edition, or
Codice civile e leggi collegate a cura di Giorgio De Nova, Bologna Zanichelli last edition.

To whom it desires to have a textbook with schemes of the contents of the program and sample exam questions, useful for the final written exam in particular, it is suggested to buy S. Patti (a cura di), L'esame di diritto privato. Definizioni e questioni, Torino, Giappichelli, 2015.

Written and oral examination

Mid-term test (optional).
At the end of the third period, students (both attending and non-attending) may take a written test covering the following parts of the programme:
- Manuale Roppo, Diritto privato. Linee essenziali, from chapter 1 to chapter 17 inclusive
- Manuale Iudica- Zatti, Linguaggio e regole del diritto privato, from chapter 1 to chapter 15 inclusive, chapter 38.
The mid-term test consists of 15 multiple-choice questions; each exact answer is awarded 2 points. No answer is considered mistake. The written test is passed successfully if the correct answers are at least 9 out of 15.
The student who has passed the mid-term test can decide to take the oral exam either on the first or second call of the summer session only. The oral exam will cover the remaining part of the program. Students who do not pass the oral exam after passing the mid-term test must take both the written and the oral exam on the entire program, as per ordinary procedures, in the following calls.

Ordinary procedures.
The written exam consists in 15 multiple-choice questions. Each correct answer is worth 2 points. No answer is considered mistake. The written test is passed successfully if the correct answers are at least 9 out of 15.
Succeeding in the written exam is condition to be admitted to the oral exam. The written part of the exam aims to test the basic knowledge of the Italian legal institutions.
The oral exam aims to evaluate the knowledge and the comprehension of the most important private law institutions. Also, In this context, the ability of the students to expose the acquired knowledge using a technical and juridical language will be assessed.

The Course is mainly structured in several frontal lessons. In addition, some extra-lessons will be structured in a seminar form focusing on topics of particular interest and complexity.

TEACHING TOOLS
• Additional materials (e.g. summaries, further readings, sample tests) will be made available online to the students.
• E-textbooks
• Moodle


Accessibility, Disability and Inclusion

Accommodation and support services for students with disabilities and students with specific learning impairments


Ca' Foscari abides by Italian Law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) regarding support services and accommodation available to students with disabilities. This includes students with mobility, visual, hearing and other disabilities (Law 17/1999), and specific learning impairments (Law 170/2010). If you have a disability or impairment that requires accommodations (i.e., alternate testing, readers, note takers or interpreters) please contact the Disability and Accessibility Offices in Student Services: disabilita@unive.it.

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development