- F. FERRARA, F. CORSI, Gli imprenditori e le società, 14th ed., Giuffrè, Milano, 2009, excluding the following chapters and paragraphs: chapters I, IV and VI, paragraphs 7.18 and 7.19, paragraph 8.18, chapters XXVII, XXIX, paragraph 37.14, chapter XXXVIII , paragraphs 39.6 to 39.17 (included), chapter XL (863 pages in total). If a more recent edition of the text is published, students may be required to use it; in such case, further information will be provided on the course web page;
OR:
- G.F. Campobasso, Diritto Commerciale Volume 1, Diritto dell’impresa, 6th ed., UTET, Torino, 2010, Volume 2, Diritto delle società, 7th ed., UTET, Torino, 2010, except paragraphs from 6 (included) to 18 of chapter 19, and chapter 21 (920 pages in total)
Learning Objectives
Knowledge
Principles and regulations concerning business organization law. Assets partition and legal personality in corporate law. Partnerships and companies. Cooperatives (principles).
Skills
Capacity to deal with major theoretical and practical issues arising from commercial law.
Capacity to find and discuss regulations, cases, bibliography in order to properly set and solve legal problems.
Ability
Critical understanding of the role of business law, with particular reference to wealth creation, financing, innovation. Ability in discuss legal issues according to the principles of commercial law.
Prerequisites
To take the exam students shall have passed the following exams: General Constitutional Law, Private Law I.
Teaching Methods
60 hours of lectures.
Type of Assessment
Commercial law exam shall be performed all in one test at the end of the course.
Intermediate tests will be done through in-class discussion with the professor
Course program
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course consists of sixty hours, carried out during the second semester.
Subjects:
Introduction. Historical evolution and current trends of commercial law. Private law of enterprises and companies.
Entrepreneur. Italian regulations regarding the firm in general. Types of entrepreneurs. The business and its transfer.
Partnerships and companies in general. The definition of "company". Asset partition and legal personality.
Partnerships: simple partnership, commercial partnership, and limited partnership.
Companies: stock company and limited liability company. Cooperatives (introduction). The group of companies.