F. FERRARA ? F. CORSI, Gli imprenditori e le società, Milano, 15a ed., Giuffré, 2011; pages from 17 to 85; from 121 to 711 (with the exception of paragraphs 5.13, 5.14, 5.15, 5.16 and 6.23); from 773 to 802 (with the exception of paragraphs 26.9, 26.12 and 26.14); page 861 to 965; from 1021 to 1027 (790 pages in total).
OR:
- G.F. Campobasso, Diritto Commerciale Volume 1, Diritto dell’impresa, 6th ed., UTET, Torino, 2010, pages from 1 to 191; Volume 2, Diritto delle società, 8a ed., UTET, Torino, 2012: pages from 1 to 254 and from 312 to 600 (730 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.