96345 - CONCETTI GIURIDICI DI BASE

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide the basic legal concepts with a view to better understanding our current system of Civil Law and other national or "transnational" systems that in some way refer to the long and complex historical experience which comes from Roman law.

Course contents

The course aims to provide the learning of basic technical language and the fundamental notions of the fundamental institutions of Roman private law as the basis of current private law.

In particular:

Law of Persons:

- the legal status of people; legal capacity and ability to act; support institutions;

Juristic act:

- concept, essential elements, accidental elements, invalidity;

Law of Things:

- the things (concept, partitions, main types), the ownership, the modes of original and derivative acquisition, the subordinate real rights, the possession;

Law of Obligations:

- the obligations: concept, types, sources, performance, non-performance and its consequences, the main modes of extinction, guarantees;

- the contract: concept, the single figures of typical contracts in their division into four parts (real, consensual, verbal and literal), the main figures of atypical contracts (unnamed contracts);

- the main obligations from a non-contractual lawful act;

- obligations from torts (damage).

Readings/Bibliography

A. BELLODI ANSALONI, Basi romanistiche di diritto privato, Wolters Kluwer 2023, capp. II-V.

The examination will be related to the topics treated during the lessons.

Teaching methods

The lessons will focus on the genesis and evolution of the main legal institutions of current private law (as indicated in the programme) derived from Roman legal science.

Assessment methods

The exam consists of an oral interview on the topics covered by the indicated programme.

The evaluation of the examination will be carried out taking into consideration:

- the knowledge of the program;

- the ability to make logical-deductive reasonings and to speak the technical-legal terminology;

- the ability connections among the different parts of the program;

- the articulation and the accuracy of the exposure.

Criteria to assign the final mark:

- Knowledge of a very limited number of topics, extensive support by the interviewer to address and answer the questions, limited ability to speak the technical-legal terminology: 18-20;

- Knowledge of a limited number of topics, ability to autonomously address basic legal problems, use of appropriate language: 21-24;

- Comprehensive knowledge of the program, ability to autonomously analyse legal problems, use of specific terminology: 25-29;

- Extensive knowledge of the program, good analytical skills, ability to reason autonomously and to present legal arguments, making connections between the topics, ability to master the specific terminology: 30-30L.

Teaching tools

In order to facilitate the assimilation of the concepts, the illustration of the topics covered will be accompanied, during the lessons, by slide presentations to support teaching.

Students which need compensatory tools for reasons of disability or Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) will communicate to the teacher their needs so as to be arranged on the adoption of the most appropriate measures.

Office hours

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