European studies

THE EUROPEAN LEGAL SYSTEMS COURSE IS DIVIDED INTO THREE MODULES: I module (2CFU): Comparative Law: development, object, purpose, classification of legal systems II module (5 CFU): The Western legal tradition and the principal legal systems of civil and common law: the historical evolution, the sources of law, the formation of a lawyer, the legal profession, and notes on some characteristic institutes. Brief presentation of legal tradition of countries in which the Western legal tradition has, at different levels, "circulated": Nordic countries, Latin America countries, China, Japan, India and Islamic countries. III module (2 CFU): The module will be focus on the study of the EC Regulation on the Statute for a European Company (SE - Societas Europea) in the context of the evolution of the model of joint stock companies in the contemporaries European systems.

Prerequisites for private law institutions and public law institutions are required. For a better learning and a better understanding of the subject it is necessary, both for the first part and for the second part, that the student has a knowledge of private and public law institutions at the beginning of the teaching activities in order to have the introductory and basic notions for the analysis of the various legal systems and institutions treated during the course. For the special part, in addition to the knowledge of private law institutions, the basic knowledge of the joint-stock company is useful, a typical instrument of commercial and corporate law.

MODULE I E II: K. Zweigert - H. Kotz - Introduction to comparative law - vol. I - Clarendon Press - Oxford - 1987 MODULE III: - AA.VV., THE EUROPEAN COMPANY, COMMUNITY SOURCES AND NATIONAL MODELS, BY D. CORAPI AND F. PERNAZZA, GIAPPICHELLI, TORINO, EXTRACT 2017MODULI I E II:

The course is divided into lectures, with slides and video projections, with the formulation of questions and the dialogical use of the arguments, according to didactic methods that foresee the continuous participation of the students, by stimulating analysis and debate on topics covered. Foreign materials will be provided in the original language (such as judgments, legislative texts, etc.), on which written exercises will take place at the end of each module and oral exercises will be presented as a case of the most recent jurisprudence and foreign doctrine. In-depth seminars are also planned with foreign professors on current topics of particular interest in order to better understand the most important foreign legal experiences.

Attendance at lectures, although optional, is strongly recommended. Attendance at lectures will be collected through the collection of student signatures present in the classroom and through participation in aptitude tests carried out during the course for the evaluation of the comprehension of the various topics addressed. The student who will be attending for having attended at least 60 hours of lessons may choose to prepare the final exam on alternative materials, agreed with the teacher during the course, and may present a written essay on a monographic topic, analyzed with the tools of comparison, preparatory to a possible comparative degree thesis. The written essay will be the object of the oral examination

During the course three multiple-choice aptitude tests will be carried out at the end of each module to assess students' ongoing understanding. Attending students who have taken all three aptitude tests without any errors will receive a bonus of three points in the final evaluation. Oral exam. This assessment method allows the assessment of the analytical and critical skills required of the student to be assessed in the most complete manner, in addition to the student's communication skills, in consideration of the complexity of the topics and the arguments object of the course which he must demonstrate knowledge of. the comprehension. Expected learning outcomes will be evaluated by formulating three or more questions. The evaluation criteria and scores are determined according to the following scale: • less than 18/30 - insufficient level: the candidate does not reach any of the learning outcomes foreseen in the point "knowledge and understanding"; • 18-20 / 30 - sufficient level: the candidate achieves, in particular, the learning outcomes foreseen in the point "knowledge and understanding"; • 21-23 / 30 - fully sufficient level: the candidate achieves, in particular, the learning outcomes envisaged under the points "knowledge and understanding" and "applied understanding and understanding"; • 24-26 / 30 - good level: the candidate achieves, in particular, the learning outcomes foreseen in the points "knowledge and understanding"; "Applied understanding and understanding" and "independent judgment"; • 27-29 / 30 - very good level: the candidate achieves, in particular, the learning outcomes foreseen in the points "knowledge and understanding"; "Applied understanding and understanding"; "Autonomy of judgment" and "communication skills"; • 30-30 cum laude - excellent level: the candidate fully achieves the learning outcomes foreseen in the points "knowledge and understanding"; "Applied understanding and understanding"; "Autonomy of judgment"; "Communication skills" and "ability to learn".

MODULO I E II: GORLA, voce Diritto Comparato e straniero, in Enc. Dir., 1964. GORLA, voce Diritto Comparato e straniero, in Enc. Giur., 1989. GORLA, Diritto Comparato e Diritto Comune Europeo, Milano, 1981. GORLA, Prolegomeni ad una storia del diritto comparato europeo, in Foro it., 1980, V. GORLA-MOCCIA, Profili di una storia del "diritto comparato" in Italia e nel mondo comunicante, in Riv. dir. civ., 1987, 242. GORLA-MOCCIA, A "Revisiting" of the comparison between "Continental Law" and "English Law", in The Journal of Legal History, 1981, 43. MOCCIA, Prospetto storico delle origini e degli atteggiamenti del moderno diritto comparato, in Riv. trim. dir. proc. civ., 1996, 181. MOCCIA, Glossario per uno studio della common law, Milano, 1981. ZWEIGERT-KÖTZ, Introduzione al diritto comparato, vol. I + vol. II. DAVID, I grandi sistemi giuridici contemporanei, 1984. GALGANO, Atlante di diritto privato comparato, 1993. SACCO, Introduzione al diritto comparato. SACCO, voce Diritti stranieri e sistemi di diritto contemporaneo, in Enc. Giur., 1989. AA.VV., Diritto privato comparato. Istituti e problemi, Bari, 1999. STEIN, Diritto privato europeo. MERRYMAN-STEIN, voce Common law, in Enc. Giur. ALPA, Corso di sistemi giuridici comparati, 1996. COSTANTINESCO, Introduzione al diritto comparato. MATTEI, Il modello di common law. MONATERI, Il modello di civil law. ALPA, Il contratto nei sistemi di common law, in Nov. Dig. It. MOCCIA, Premessa e contratto, in Riv. dir. civ., 1994, 819. MOCCIA, voce Contract, in Enc. Giur. CRISCUOLI, Contract. GILMORE, La morte del contratto. ZENO ZENCOVICH, Il diritto europeo dei contratti, in Giur. it., 1993, 57. DAVID, Unificazione internazionale del diritto, in Enc. Giur., 1994. BONELL, Unificazione internazionale del diritto, in Enc. Dir., 1992. BONELL, Un codice europeo dei contratti del commercio internazionale. HARTKAMP, HESSELINK et al., Towards a European Civil Code, II ed., L’Aja, 1998. WITZ, Plaidoyer pour un code éuropéen des obligations, Dalloz 2000, chr. 79. LEGRAND, Against a European Civil Code, 60 Modern Law Review 44 (1997). BONELL, The Need and Possibilities of a Codified European Contract Law, 5 Eur. Rev. Private Law 505, (1997). MARKESINIS, Why a Code Is not the Best Way to Advance the Cause of European Legal Unity, 5 Eur. Rev. Private Law 519, (1997). BASEDOW, Un droit commun des contrcts pour le marché commun, Rev. int. dr. comparé, 1998,7. ZENO ZENCOVICH, Il codice civile europeo, le tradizioni giuridiche nazionali e il neopositivismo, Foro it. 1998, V.

The course is divided into lectures, with slides and video projections, with the formulation of questions and the dialogical use of the arguments, according to didactic methods that foresee the continuous participation of the students, by stimulating analysis and debate on topics covered. Foreign materials will be provided in the original language (such as judgments, legislative texts, etc.), on which written exercises will take place at the end of each module and oral exercises will be presented as a case of the most recent jurisprudence and foreign doctrine. In-depth seminars are also planned with foreign professors on current topics of particular interest in order to better understand the most important foreign legal experiences.