62514 - PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Al termine del corso lo studente - conosce in modo approfondito i meccanismi elaborati nei principali sistemi giuridici nazionali di civil law e common law e dal diritto internazionale e dell’Unione europea per disciplinare i rapporti aventi elementi di estraneità rispetto al diritto interno di riferimento, tanto con riguardo al diritto applicabile, quanto con riferimento al foro competente per la risoluzione delle controversie; - è in grado di risolvere in modo autonomo le principali problematiche in materia di successioni, obbligazioni reali, contrattuali, extracontrattuali e diritto di famiglia che presentino elementi di estraneità rispetto all’ordinamento giuridico nazionale.

Contenuti

The course will enable students to critically understand and deal professionally with international private issues. To this effect, the main topics of private international law - jurisdiction, applicable law and recognition and enforcement of foreign decisions, international cooperation - will be analyzed by examining examining some of the most relevant categories of private international law - divorce, international contracts and succession and wills.

In particular, this will make it possible to explore the different sources of private international law (international sources, sources of EU law, national sources, non-State law), the methods of regulation of private matters with elements of internationality, also from a historical and comparative point of view (including the autonomy of the parties and the rules of uniform substantive law), as well as the resolution of disputes (state jurisdiction, international arbitration, alternative means of dispute resolution).

CONTENTS:

Introduction. The Subject. Terminology.(Textbook, Chapter 1)
EU Involvement. The Sources.(Textbook, Chapter 2)

Private International Law: an overview in an historical perspective (Textbook, Chapter I).

General issues of Private International Law (Textbook, Chapter I)

The establishment of the area of freedom, security and justice and Private international law (Textbook, Chapter II)
Private international law of the EU (Textbook, Chapter II)

Divorce, legal separation and nullity of marriage: the applicable law (Textbook, Chapter VI)
Divorce, legal separation and nullity of marriage: jurisdiction and recognition of foreign decisions (Textbook, Chapter VI)

International Succession and Wills: the applicable law (Textbook, Chapter X).
Jurisdiction and recognition of foreign decisions; acceptance of authentic acts; the EU Certificate of succession (Textbook, Chapter X).

Regulation Brussels I: The Scope and Other General Features of the Regulation. Marriage Dissolution: Jurisdiction. (Textbook, Chapter XI).
Rules on jurisdiction (Textbook, Chapter XI)

Choice of court agreements (Textbook, Chapter XI)

International contracts: an overview (Textbook, Chapter XIII)

International Contracts. Regulation Rome I: The Scope and Other General Features of the Regulation(Textbook, Chapter XIII)

Party Autonomy. (Textbook, Chapter XIII))
Applicable Law in the Absence of Choice.(Textbook, Chapter XIII)

Consumer contracts and private international law (Textbook, Chapter XV)
Art. 6 of the Rome I Regulation (Textbook, Chapter XV)

Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments (Textbook, Chapter XXI)
The Brussels I bis Regulation on recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments (Textbook, Chapter XXI).

International Commercial Arbitration: the arbitration agreement (Textbook, Chapter XXII)
Recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards (Textbook, Chapter XXII).

Testi/Bibliografia

A.-L. Calvo Caravaca, J. Carrascosa González (editors), European Private International Law, Comares, Granada, 2022 (only the Chapters referred to in the programme of the course).

Further reading material and the slides of the lectures will be available on the course website: virtuale.unibo.it

Metodi didattici

The course consists of lectures and interactive seminars. Interactive seminars involve the analysis and discussion of case law and scholarly writings, made available to students through the website of the course. Students are expected to actively take part to classes.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

THE EXAM IS HELD IN ENGLISH

The final exam is oral or written, at the choice of the students.

The written exam consists in questions with 3 possible answers (1 correct, 2 false) on the course programme, identical for attending and non-attending students.

The oral exams consists in questions on the course programme.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Slides, case-law and reading material will be available on the course website at virtuale.unibo.it

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Alessandra Zanobetti