37296 - Commercial law

Academic Year 2016/2017

Learning outcomes
Students are first expected to get acquainted with the nature and functioning of business
companies, as they are the main economic actors in today's economic and social environment.
In order to understand how and to what extent they make their contribution to the economic
system and our well-being, students will learn how business companies are formed and for
what purposes, who own them, who manage them and in the interest of whom they should be
managed, how their decision-making processes are structured and function, how they relate
with the outside world and how their failure gets handled. Secondly, students will come to
grasp key notions of trademark, patent and copyright laws with a view to getting a good
understanding of the reasons why product research, development and innovation, which are
necessary for our collective good and progress, call for protection of intellectual property
rights. Additionally, students will be provided with key notions of competition law with the
aim of exploring why and how a productive and well functioning economic system requires
fair competition and trust (monopoly) busting. Although our focus will mainly be on Italian
and European laws, references will be made to other legal systems, such as that of the United
States.

Course contents
1.Introduction: A Brief Account of the History of Italian and European Commercial Law.
2.Partnerships under Italian, European and United States laws.
3.Private Companies under Italian, European and United States laws with particular regard to
formation, organizational changes, capital structure and fund raising, corporate governance.
4.Public Companies under Italian, European and United States laws with particular regard to
formation, organizational changes, capital structure and fund raising, corporate governance,
mergers and acquisitions.
5.Mutual Companies.
6.Groups of Companies.
7.Key notions of bankruptcy law.
8.Securities markets.
9.Key notions of intellectual property law.
10. Key notions of competition law.

78356 - PRINCIPLES OF PRIVATE LAW

IN BUSINESS
Academic Year 2016/2017
Course contents
The course is focused on the sources of private law, domestic and transnational; basic
institutes, rules and principles of private law in the context of business life: property law, trust
law, contract, companies, insurance law, tort law, litigation, arbitration and judical systems.

The second part of the course will be tought by Professor Edgardo Ricciardiello with the
following program:
principles of company law; corporate governance; principles of bankruptcy law; cross border
insolvency; sharing economy and crowfunding;the financial market conrtacts; the recovery
and resolution directive; the first