Administrative, Political and Economic Sciences

CRISTINA CARICATO

Specific objective Dublin 1: at the end of the course the student will know the main private law institutes, the main jurisprudential orientations, the theories of the most recent doctrine and the main debates, above all in the subject matter of recent legislative interventions.
Specific objective Dublin 2: upon completion of the course the student is able to apply the acquired knowledge in a competent and reflective way; it can support legal arguments and is able to solve problems typical of the subject dealt with.
Specific objective Dublin 3: upon completion of the course the student is able to carry out comprehensive reflections on topics of private law pertaining to social reality, to independently develop judgments on issues that involve ethical evaluations, as in the case of maternity techniques surrogate or advance treatment directives.
Specific objective Dublin 4: upon completion of the course the student is be able to express the concepts learned, also communicating to non-legal practitioners the conclusions to which he / she has reached by applying the concepts learned in the course.
Specific objective Dublin 5: upon completion of the course the student is able to continue in a specialized higher level learning, having acquired a solid foundation for the preparation and processing of the legal material.

The goal of the course is it, to cover the main institutions of the italian private law and general theory of the law, in order to give the necessary knowledge and the adequate instruments also to “non – law” students.

There are no prerequisites.

Introductory notions (legal capacity, ability to act, natural capacity, limitations on the ability to act, support administration, interdiction and incapacitation, acts of disposition of one's body)
right of persons (natural persons, rights of the personality, bodies)
family law (marriage, de facto family, homosexual cohabitation, filiation, separation, divorce, custody of children)
right of succession due to death (legitimate succession, testamentary, legitimates, forms of the will, actions)
property law (property, minor property rights, possession, petition and possession shares, property limits and neighborhood relations)
law of obligations and contracts (general discipline of obligations, general rules on contracts, typical contracts, atypical contracts, detailed study of individual contracts)
civil liability (unlawful, indirect liability, objective liability, improper, natural obligations)
protection of rights (transcription, generic asset guarantee, legitimate causes of preemption, prescription and revocation, proof).

S. Patti (a cura di), Diritto privato, Cedam, ultima edizione.
Inoltre, è richiesto lo studio di C. Caricato, La famiglia tra legge, accordo e fatto, Pacini, 2025.

Si consiglia la consultazione di S. Patti (a cura di), L'esame di diritto privato. Definizioni e questioni, Giappichelli, ultima edizione.

Si raccomanda la consultazione di un codice civile aggiornato al 2026.

Se si possiedono già altri manuali, vanno ancora bene Torrente/Roppo/Paradiso, ecc., purché in edizione non precedente al 2024.

Learning is mainly done through lectures. In the second part of the course, exercises are planned, in order to apply the techniques of elaboration of the legal material, especially of the jurisprudence through the use of specialized databases. It is also possible to attend seminars on specialized topics, in order to acquire skills on issues of particular ethical and social importance. Well-known professors, legal practitioners also take part in the course. Specific lessons are planned to deepen comparative profiles.

Attendance is recommended, but is not mandatory. Access to the in itinere tests is permitted only to students who have attended at least two-thirds of the lessons.

The test takes place in oral form. Typically, three questions are asked, the first more general, the second more specific and a very specific third, in order to verify the student's ability to process the legal material and the knowledge learned.
An intermediate written test for attending students is possible to evaluate the ability to learn and apply the acquired knowledge and the critical elaboration of the doctrinal and jurisprudential material. It consists of two open-ended questions on a part of the program.

Cancellation of the contract
Compensation
Civil liability