Economics of Innovation

The Institutions of Private Law course is aimed at making students learn the fundamentals of private law, that is, of the set of rules governing relations between private individuals and between private individuals and the Public Administration in cases in which the latter acts iure privatorum, that is, as a private subject and without the exercise of the authoritative powers that are its own. The course introduces to the institutional notions of private law, subjects of law, legal relationship and private autonomy, through methodological education to a constant consultation of normative sources and an initial analysis of doctrinal and jurisprudential arguments. Particular attention will be paid to the law of obligations and contracts, decisive institutes in the training of both the professional with managerial functions and those who, wishing to continue their studies, intend to acquire skills for the performance of the activity of auditors, certified public accountants and business professionals. Students who have passed the examination will be able to apply institutional notions, interpret a text of the law, verify what are the legal consequences arising from a certain conduct of private individuals, and distinguish the main rights over things. They will, likewise, be in a position to understand the main instruments of legal circulation, evaluating, in relation to the individual hypotheses of each case, which of the negotiations should be considered preferable in order to meet the needs that, from time to time, arise, thus also identifying the differential features in the choice of one rather than another of them. They will also be in a position to understand, illustrate and set up technical issues concerning the law of persons, the law of succession, rights in rem, the law of obligations and contracts, and the discipline of contractual and non-contractual liability, as well as to draft the text of elementary exchange contracts or the main unilateral legal acts in compliance with the regulations in force.