Management and corporate law

MARCO FRANCESCO CAMPAGNA

The course introduces students to the main institutions of private law, providing an essential basis to understand legal relationships between parties, the discipline of goods and property rights, and the rules governing obligations and contracts. It develops the essential legal vocabulary and interpretative tools needed to read and apply rules and principles, with attention to sources of law and interpretation criteria. The course aims to strengthen legal reasoning and case analysis skills through examples and exercises, fostering both theoretical and operational understanding of legal transactions and typical business-related issues. In this way, the course fosters robust legal skills that are valuable in business management environments and in corporate legal consultancy, consistent with the degree programme.

The course introduces students to the main institutions of private law, providing an essential basis to understand legal relationships between parties, the discipline of goods and property rights, and the rules governing obligations and contracts. I

Knowledge and understanding
The course aims to provide an in-depth knowledge of the main institutions of private law and the most important categories used in legal discourse. In addition, students will learn the theory of the sources of law, the relationship between them and the applicable interpretative tools. They will also be placed in a position to understand the current evolutionary tensions of private law.
Applying knowledge and understanding
The student will have gained the essential knowledge to be able to solve practical cases and, in particular, to be able to correctly apply the abstract case to the concrete case with an adequate ability to argue the logical-legal process completed.
Making judgements
The student will be able to make an autonomous assessment of the legal relevance of individual facts and will also have acquired an ability to judge the different forms of law. Autonomy of judgment will be favored by an exercise activity that will see the active participation of the students.
Communication skills
The student will be put in a position to clearly and comprehensively present the theoretical topics covered. He will also be able to fully carry out legal reasoning using the main argumentative techniques. The student will complete these activities using the main tools of information and communication technologies.
Learning skills
The student will be able to independently read legal texts relating to private law, including monographic texts.

There are no particular prerequisites.

The course is aimed at exploring the main institutions regulating legal relations between private individuals. Particular attention will be devoted to the concept of the person, real rights, the regulation of obligations and that of contracts, also with a view to understanding the various problematic profiles of legal transactions.
The main objective of the course is to develop the student's critical capacity with regard to the theoretical analysis of the institutions and their practical application.

To the student's choice, one of the following manuals:

- Andrea TORRENTE, Piero SCHLESINGER, Franco ANELLI, Manuale di diritto privato, Edition XXVII, 2025 Chapters excluded from the programme: Capitolo L (I contratti agrari) - Capitolo LII (La cambiale) - Capitolo LIII (Gli assegni) – Capitolo LVI (L’impresa e l’azienda) - Capitolo LVII (Lo statuto generale dell’imprenditore) - Capitolo LVIII (Lo statuto dell’imprenditore commerciale) - Capitolo LIX (Il rapporto di lavoro subordinato) - Capitolo LX (L’impresa collettiva) - Capitolo LXI (Le società di persone) - Capitolo LXII (Le società di capitali) - Capitolo LXIII (La società cooperativa) - Capitolo LXIV (Le procedure concorsuali). Only the main notions contained in the Chapters from LXV to LXXIII-bis (I rapporti di famiglia).
- (edited by) Enrico GABRIELLI, Diritto privato, Edition III, 2024 - ISBN/EAN 9791221102680 Chapters excluded from the programme: Capitolo XXXVII (I contratti bancari, i titoli di credito, gli strumenti finanziari) - Capitolo XXXIX (I contratti agrari ed agroalimentari) - Capitolo XLII (I contratti della Pubblica Amministrazione) - Capitolo XLVI (Impresa, lavoro e società) - Capitolo XLVII (La crisi d’impresa). Only the main notions contained in the Chapter VIII (La famiglia).
- The Civil Code is an essential tool for preparing for the exam, which must be purchased in any of its editions;
- The student is invited to have any more recent editions of the suggested manuals; in any case, it remains the student's right to adopt a different manual than those recommended.

Frontal teaching with the use of IT supports.

Attendance is recommended but not compulsory.

he exam is held in presence. The student's level of achievement of the expected learning outcomes is ascertained through an end-of-course exam in written and oral form. The written exam, 30 minutes, will be done on Moodle with multiple choice questions, in front of a commission chaired by the professor in charge of the course. The student who has achieved a sufficient score in the written part will be asked an oral question. This level of achievement is graded out of thirty and the determination of the final grade takes into account both the outcome of the written and oral exam.

The questions are broad in scope (e.g., property rights) and only later are more specific questions introduced (e.g., what is accession?).

• The schedule is organised, as far as possible, in accordance with the Civil Code. The lessons will be held in 24 sessions, each lasting 3 hours.