PRIVATE LAW Single channel
Chair (Coordinator) and Rapporteur: GIOVANNI PERLINGIERI
Lecturers
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
1. Know the current Italian-European legal system.
2. Understand the main institutions regulating matters involving individuals and families, real estate, credit, torts, and succession.
3. Experience the application of the remedial techniques offered by the current legal system to prevent or respond to conflict situations.
Applied Knowledge and Understanding
1. Ability to frame acts of autonomy and liability profiles from a functional and axiological perspective.
2. Ability to identify the discipline best suited to safeguarding the interests underlying private law institutions from a comparative perspective and based on their specific merits.
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 that govern independent negotiation.
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 contextualize private law institutions within the Italian-European system using appropriate legal language.
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, in the plurality of parties, and the remedies available for their resolution, whichever is most appropriate for protecting the interests affected by their balancing.
Prerequisites
Full knowledge of the Italian language.
Programme
Legal rules. Fact and legal effect. Subjective situation and legal relationship. Theory of interpretation. Natural persons. Legal entities. Existential legal situations. Property. Possession. Bonds. Guarantees. Prescription. Negotiating autonomy and contractual autonomy. Contracts. Sales contract. Mandate contract. Donations. Division. Unilateral promises. Transcription. Liability. Tort and damage. Families and parental relationships. Inheritance by cause of death.
Books
- P. PERLINGIERI, Manuale di Diritto civile, XII ed., Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2024i Scientifiche Italiane, 2a ed., 2021, limited to the cases contained in the ill be
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 attendance of lectures and exercises, during which additional teaching material will be distributed.
The same teaching material will be available on Classroom platform.
Lessons mode
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.
Frequency
On presence
Exam mode
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.
Example exam 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.
Arguments
- Study of the main institutes of private law
Sustainability goals
- Academic year2026/2027
- Degree program to which the course belongsLaw and Economics of Real Estate - delivered in blended mode
- Lesson code10628819
- Year and semester1st year - 1st semester
- Activity typeBasic educational activities
- Academic areaprivatistico
- SSDGIUR-01/A
- Mandatory presenceNo
- Languageita
- CFU9 CFU
- Total duration72 hours
- Hours distribution72 classroom hours