- Docente: Laura Gualandi
- Credits: 8
- SSD: IUS/04
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Laura Gualandi (Modulo 1) Carla Gandini (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and Accounting (cod. 0896)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student is expected to reach a good knowledge of the Italian laws regarding the exercise of business activity and the structure and functioning of partnership and corporations.
Course contents
The course of Commercial Law aims at explaining the business activity and its different forms (sole proprietorship, partnership, corporations, etc.). The entreprise is examined both as a legal entity and as a business activity.
The first part of the course concerns particularly the business activity and partnerships; the second part concerns particularly corporations.
First part
The Business Activity. Type of Business Activity.
The rules of Business Activity.
Firm. Brand.
Unfair competition.
Integration among entreprises (consortia, joint ventures).
Partnerships.
Second part
Corporations: Closely Held Corporations (Limited company by shares; Limited liability company)
Company dissolution.
Mutual Companies
Merger and Acquisition.
Group of Companies
Readings/Bibliography
Recommended reading list
The Civil Code (edition updated)
About enterprise
G. PRESTI – M. RESCIGNO, Corso di diritto commerciale - Vol. I (Impresa – Contratti – Titoli di credito – Fallimento), Zanichelli, Bologna, latest edition:
- Lessons I , II, III;
- Lesson IV (from n. 1.1 to n. 2.4);
- Lesson V.
About partnership, corporations and co-operatives:
G. PRESTI – M. RESCIGNO, Corso di diritto commerciale - Vol. II (Società), Zanichelli, Bologna:
- Lessons XVIII , XIX and XX;
- Lessons from XXI to XXXI;
- Lessons XXXII (not including n. 8);
- Lessons from XXXIV to XXXVI.
Teaching methods
Lessons
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Office hours
See the website of Laura Gualandi
See the website of Carla Gandini