BUSINESS LAW

The course provides grounding in Business Law, covering the study of both entrepreneurs and corporations, with a focus on companies in general, partnerships and Limited Liability Companies. The course is complemented by the additional course of Business Law 2, dedicated especially to the joint stock companies. The objective is to highlight the role of Business Law for the development of businesses and economy, between rules and autonomy of individuals.

Knowledge and understanding: through participation to in-person lectures and online classes, the student acquires knowledge of the fundamental institutions of corporate law (individual and corporate) with a specific focus on the discipline of companies in general, partnerships and limited liability companies. In order to verify the acquired knowledge, an oral exam will be held at the end of the course Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: The student is enabled to distinguish, from a structural and functional point of view, the organizational models of businesses illustrated during the course and is therefore able to interpret the legal rules governing each model. This way, students will be able to understand the role of business law in the development of both entrepreneurship and the economy at wide, which will be completed with the course of Business Law 2. An oral interview will be held at the end of the course to verify the acquired knowledge Critical thinking: the analytic method acquired during the course allows the student to identify data and materials relevant to the analysis of the normative sources of business law and to evaluate critically the different doctrinal and jurisprudential orientations regarding each institution studied. Thus, the student acquires the ability to analyse cases and is able to qualify them from a legal standpoint. Communication skills: at the end of the course the student is able to use, with adequate terminological precision, the technical and legal vocabulary of business law in relation to the issues studied. Ability to learn: The technical and legal knowledge acquired during the course allows the student to understand and interpret, also autonomously, the normative developments as well as the trends in scholarship and caselaw in the field.

General knowledge of law, especially private law

The entrepreneur and the assets. Competition and the protection of the enterprise in the market. Companies in general. For-profit companies and Benefit Corporations. Partnerships. Capital companies and the reform. The limited liability company. Dissolution. Business crisis and insolvency procedures. Contracts between entrepreneurs and between entrepreneurs and consumers. Debt securities and payment instruments.

G. Presti, M. Rescigno, Corso di diritto commerciale. Volume 1 – Impresa-contratti-titoli di credito-fallimento, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2023, 11a ed., G. Presti, M. Rescigno, Corso di diritto commerciale. Volume II – Società, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2021, 10a ed., As an alternative to the Presti-Rescigno textbook, students may use: G.F. Campobasso, Diritto commerciale 1. Diritto dell’impresa, UTET, Torino, 2022, 8a ed. a cura di M. Campobasso, pagg. 1-300. G.F. Campobasso, Diritto commerciale 2. Diritto delle società, UTET, Torino, 2022, 11a ed. a cura di M. Campobasso G.F. Campobasso, Diritto commerciale 3. Contratti. Titoli di credito. Procedure concorsuali, UTET, Torino, 2022, 6a ed. A cura di M. Campobasso

Frontal teaching

The exam is oral. The student must show a full understanding of the principles and notions of Business Law 1 and the institutions characterizing the course, such as individual and collective enterprises, partnerships and limited liability companies, and the fundamental organizational rules of the types of companies covered by the course. The student will also have to demonstrate that he/she can correctly interpret and apply the theoretical notions to practical cases. The student is required to correctly use the legal vocabulary of the field, thereby demonstrating familiarity with the method of study and the learning skills necessary to continue even independently the deepening of the subject. The mark is on an 18-to-30 scale. Monitoring and mid-term exams might be held to test the students’ progresses, provided anyway that the final mark will be given only during the final examination at the end of the course, according to the procedures and evaluation criteria specified above.

Course attendance and successful completion of the exam