PRINCIPLES OF PRIVATE LAW

Private law is a basic educational activity in the degree programme Commercio Estero. The course aims to provide students with essential information concerning the basic legal institutions of modern private law and basic legal concepts necessary for understanding the dynamics of the legal regulation of individual economic relations.

1. Knowledge and understandings:
- Knowledge of the private legal institutions;
- Knowledge the multilevel legal system which governs the today private relationships;
- Understanding the role of the private legal institutions and the way in which the rules of Private law governs private relationships.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understandings:
- Ability to identify legal rules suitable to govern private conflicts or cooperation relationships.
3. Judgment:
- Being able to interpret legal provisions.
- Being able to identify, distinguish and relate different principles and legal provisions belonging to different sources of the multilevel system.

None prerequisite is required.

The modern legal systems. Sources of law. The structure of the rule of law. The interpretation of the law. Rights and duties. The subjects of law. Natural and legal persons. The legal goods. The obligations in general. Performance, breach, and contractual liability. Private property and possession. The private autonomy and the circulation of goods. The general rules on contract (formation, validity and invalidity, effectiveness and ineffectiveness, execution, breach). Consumer relations. Tort law.

V.ROPPO, Diritto privato - Linee essenziali, IV edizione, Torino Giappichelli 2018, excluded the following parts:
Cap. II, paragrafi 4, 5, 10, 11, 12; Cap. 8, paragrafi 6,7 e 8; Cap. 13; Cap. 15, paragr. 6; Cap. 20, Cap. da 33 a 36 compreso; Cap. 38, paragrafi 8,9,10,11,12; Cap. 41, 43, 44.

These text should be read together with an updated edition of the Civil Code.

Written and oral examination

The Course is structured in several frontal lessons and practical exercises.

Italian

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 "Circular economy, innovation, work" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development