The class aims to give students an introduction to private law.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons with active learning and students' partecipation
Assessment Methods
An oral exam in order to verify the assimilation of the fundamental elements of private law
Attending students may write a short paper, according to the characteristics that will be indicated in class, which contributes one-third to the final grade
Texts
A. Torrente, P. Schlesinger, Manuale di diritto privato, XXVII ed., Lefebvre Giuffrè, Milan, 2025 (pp. 3-44; 59-178; 193-214; 237-357; 373-446; 459-561; 577-608; 633-634; 781-852)
or another handbook updated (with reference to the indicated syllabus and course contents)
Contents
The course contents, after the preliminary notions, concern the study of legal activity (subjective legal situations, subject and object of the legal relationship, fact, act and deed, influence of time on legal events), of property rights (in general, property, others rights, possession) and, then, of obligations (the relationship, the elements of the relationship, the extinction of the obligation, non-performance and default, the debtor's liability). Finally, the course programme includes an in-depth study of contracts and non contractual civil liability.
