law

GIOVANNI PERLINGIERI

Inglese
The course will deepen, in the critical sense, history and discipline of contract law, reviewed under the guidelines of the doctrine and jurisprudence.

Knowledge and Understanding
1. Know the current Italian-European legal system.
2. Critically reflect on the regulatory role that principles, rules, and general clauses play in providing regulatory responses to some of the most debated issues regarding contractual autonomy.
3. Experiment with the application of the remedial techniques offered by the current legal system to prevent or respond to a conflict situation.

Applied Knowledge and Understanding
1. Know how to frame acts of autonomy from a functional and axiological perspective.
2. Know how to identify the appropriate framework to best safeguard the interests underlying the act of autonomy from a comparative perspective and based on their merits, in concrete terms.
3. Distinguish, among the tools designed to address pathological situations, which of these are most appropriate (reasonable, proportionate) to regulate the specific relationship and/or resolve conflict situations.

Independent Judgment
1. Identify, distinguish, and relate the principles and rules governing independent contractual agreements.
2. Interpret legal texts
3. When faced with the need to regulate relationships or resolve conflict situations, be able to identify which legal provisions can be used (and to what extent) as parameters of judgment and tools for conflict prevention or management.

Communication Skills
By the end of the course, students should be able to understand the complexity of the current legal system and place independent contractual agreements within the Italian-European legal system. They should also explain the function and structure of the institutions responsible for their governance, using appropriate argumentative techniques.

Learning Skills
By the end of the course, students are expected to have acquired the tools needed to identify conflicts and/or abuses that may arise when exercising subjective legal rights, among the many parties involved, and the remedies available for their resolution, whichever one may be most appropriate for protecting the interests affected by their balancing.

Preparatory examinations: Private Law Institutions and Institutions of Roman law. In particular, it is essential to know: sources of law, subjective juridical situations, legal relationship, legal autonomy.

The course will be focused on the principal issues of civil law (complexity, dynamism and unity of the legal system; constitutional, european and international legality; abuse of rights; interpretation of law and contracts; fundamental principles and control of reasonableness), with special regard for the main scholars' studies and case law.

- P. PERLINGIERI, Il diritto civile nella legalità costituzionale secondo il sistema italo-europeo. Fonti e interpretazione, Tomo II, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 4ª ed., 2020;
- G. PERLINGIERI, Profili applicativi della ragionevolezza nel diritto civile, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2015;
- L. JOSSERAND, L’abuso dei diritti (1905), traduzione italiana a cura di L. Tullio, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2018 (escluso da pagina 73 a pagina 116);
- G. PERLINGIERI e G. CARAPEZZA FIGLIA (a cura di), L’«interpretazione secondo Costituzione» nella giurisprudenza. Crestomazia di decisioni giuridiche, Tomo II, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2a ed., 2021, limited to the cases contained in the paragraphs 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 e 19. Attending students will be examined only on four of the cases indicated, at their choice.
An updated Civil Code and related laws shall be consulted.
We recommend: Codice civile a cura di G. PERLINGIERI e M. ANGELONE, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2022-2023

It is also higly recommended the consultation of a Private Law Manual.
We recommend:
a) P. PERLINGIERI, Manuale di diritto civile, Xa ed., Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2021, limited to the following topics: Introductory notions and fundamental principles, Obligations and Contracts.
b) attendance of lectures and exercises, during which additional teaching material will be distributed.
The same teaching material will be available on the Sapienza Moodle e-learning platform.

The lectures will be accompanied by in-depth seminars, with guest lecturers from other Universities, and exercises on practical cases, with direct involvement of the students. Attendance is optional, but strongly recommended. Reception shifts are planned in order to provide clarifications and encourage an adequate development of argumentative skills.

On presence

Exams are held in oral form, with final grade, in case of success, between 18/30 (pass) and 30/30 (maximum grade; 30 and honors for excellence). To pass the exam with the minimum grade, the student must demonstrate that they have acquired sufficient knowledge of the topics covered and be able to present them with language properties and the ability to make the necessary connections. To pass the exam with the highest grade, the student must demonstrate that they have acquired excellent knowledge of all the topics covered. An interim evaluation may be envisaged. In this case, the test, upon notice, will be written and will consist of open-ended questions.

The student notes from 3 to 5 key words, considered as examples of the topics covered in class and which, in his opinion, summarize the contents. The contributions will be discussed in the next lesson.

• Ability to study and investigate according to a methodological perspective of a functional, systematic and axiological type.
  • Books: P. PERLINGIERI, Il diritto civile nella legalità costituzionale secondo il sistema italo-europeo. Fonti e interpretazione, Tomo II, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 4ª ed., 2020


• Analysis of the topics covered and of the most important doctrinal and jurisprudential positions concerning them.
  • Books: G. PERLINGIERI, Profili applicativi della ragionevolezza nel diritto civile, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2015L. JOSSERAND, L’abuso dei diritti (1905), traduzione italiana a cura di L. Tullio, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2018 (excluded from page 73 to page 116)


• Critical analysis and evaluation in solving practical cases.
  • Books: G. PERLINGIERI e G. CARAPEZZA FIGLIA (a cura di), L’«interpretazione secondo Costituzione» nella giurisprudenza. Crestomazia di decisioni giuridiche, Tomo II, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2a ed., 2021, limited to the cases contained in the paragraphs 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 e 19.