PRIVATE LAW - 1

Academic year
2018/2019 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
DIRITTO PRIVATO - 1
Course code
ET0013 (AF:282712 AR:159382)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6 out of 12 of PRIVATE LAW
Subdivision
Surnames Lb-Z
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
IUS/01
Period
3rd Term
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
Private Law is a mandatory course of the Bachelor in Economics and business.
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
THIS IS THE COURSE'S SYLLABUS VALID 12 FORMATIVES CREDITS.

• 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.
The student can choose from the following manuals listed in alphabetical order:
a) G. Iudica, P. Zatti, Linguaggio e regole del diritto privato, IX edizione, Cedam, 2018. The following parts are excluded: 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.
b) V. Roppo, Diritto privato. Linee essenziali, V edizione, Giappichelli, 2018. The following parts are excluded: 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.

These texts should be read together with an updated edition of the Civil Code also in Ebook edition.
The student can choose from the following edition:

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.
Written and oral examination
INTERMEDIATE WRITTEN EXAM
At the end of the third period all the students (attending and not attending) can take a written test (hereinafter intermediate written exam) concerning the following parts of the program:
• Book Iudica- Zatti, Linguaggio e regole del diritto privato, from chap. 1 to chap. 15 included, +chap.44.
• Book Roppo, Diritto privato. Linee essenziali, from chap. 1 to chap. 17 included, + chap.43.

The intermediate written exam consists in 15 multiple-choice questions. Each correct answer is worth 2 points. No answer is considered mistake. To pass the intermediate written exam, it is required to give 9 right answers out of 15 questions.
Students who have passed the intermediate written exam can choose to take the oral exam on the first or second call of the summer session only; this oral test will focus on the remaining part of the program. Students who do not pass the oral examination after passing the intermediate written exam have to take both the written test and the oral exam on the whole program, according to ordinary procedure, in the subsequent sessions.

Ordinary examination procedure (Written and oral)
The ordinary written exam consists in 15 multiple-choice questions. Each correct answer is worth 2 points. No answer is considered mistake. To pass the intermediate written exam, it is required to give 9 right answers out of 15 questions. Successful completion of the written test is a condition for admission to the oral examination.
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.
Further information will be available on the e-learning platform (Moodle)
https://moodle.unive.it/course/view.php?id=844
Additional materials (e.g. summaries, further readings, sample tests) will be made available online to the students.
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

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Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 01/02/2019