The course aims to provide basic knowledge of the international legal system, on the one hand, and of coordination between national legal systems, on the other. At the end of the course students should be able to orient themselves in the world of relations between States, and of interindividual relationships characterized by elements of transnationality (starting from the different citizenship of the subjects involved).
Course Prerequisites
Prerequisites: constitutional law, private law institutions I. Teaching requires the ability to move between the various legal systems, in a perspective not limited exclusively to the values and principles of Italian law.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons with slide show. Uploading slides and other teaching materials on the KIRO platform. For students providing documentary evidence as to their inability to attend classes, a targeted supported will be provided, also through appropriate teaching materials, to ensure a profitable preparation of the exam in autonomy.
Assessment Methods
The verification consists of an oral exam aimed at testing the knowledge acquired and the ability to move between the Italian system, the international system and the systems of other States.
Texts
- B. CONFORTI, M. IOVANE, Diritto internazionale, 12ª ed., Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2023. - F. MOSCONI, C. CAMPIGLIO, Diritto internazionale privato e processuale, Parte generale e obbligazioni, 11ª ed., Torino, Utet, 2024, Chap. I, III e IV. Knowledge of the main legal sources is indispensable (law n.218 / 1995 on the reform of the Italian private international law system; Vienna Convention of 1969 on the law of treaties). The normative texts can also be consulted respectively in: R. LUZZATTO, F. POCAR, Codice di diritto internazionale pubblico, 8ª ed., Torino, Giappichelli, 2020
Contents
The course covers both public international law and private international law. As regards the first, the main themes concern the same notion of international law; the state as a subject of international law; the formation of international rules; the content of international norms; the application of international law within the State; international responsibility; the means of ascertaining and implementing international rules; international humanitarian law. As far as private international law is concerned, the main topics concern the notions of private international law in a broad and narrow sense; private international law conventions; the structure and characteristics of the rules of private international law; the limits to the functioning of the rules of private international law.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Students who intend to follow the "International and comparative law" curriculum can use the manual: GAETA e a., Cassese's International Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020 (to replace only B. Conforti's manual); the program is to be agreed with the teacher