00221 - Commercial Law

Course contents

The course of Commercial Law aims at explaining the business activity and its different forms (sole proprietorship, partnership, corporations, etc.). The enterprise is examined both as a legal entity and as a business activity. The rules about enterprise will be properly illustrated and highlighted.

The first part of the course concerns particularly the business activitynd partnership; the second part concerns particularly corporations.

Contents

First part

The business activity. Type of business activity. The small business activity. The family business activity.

The ownership of business activity.

The rules of business activity.

The business concern.

Firm; brand.

Unfair competition.

Integration among enterprises (consortia, joint ventures).

Second part

The partnerships.

The limited company by shares (not including the rules concerning the listed companies).

Limited company by shares.

Limited liability company.

Company dissolution.

Co-operatives.

Reorganization; merger and split-up.

Groups

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:

-         Lessons I , II, III;

-         Lesson IV (from n. 1.1 to n. 2.4)

 

About partnership, corporations and co-operatives:

G. PRESTI – M. RESCIGNO, Corso di diritto commerciale - Vol. II (Società), Zanichelli, Bologna:

-         Lesson XVII;

-         Lessons XVIII and XIX.

-         Lessons from XX to XXX;

-         Lessons XXXI (not including n. 8);

-    Lessons from XXXIII to XXXV.

Teaching methods

Lessons

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Office hours

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