SCIENZE GIURIDICHEModule DIRITTO PRIVATO
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: ALFIO GUIDO GRASSOExpected Learning Outcomes
The course is primarily intended to provide an essential but sufficiently broad overview of private law as a branch of legal science. Through the study of texts and by attending lectures, the student will therefore have acquired a basic knowledge of the fundamentals of Italian and European private law. Flanking and following this first result is a second and more specific objective: to become familiar with and deal with competence in the main private law disciplines concerning health professionals and medical-technical organisations, as well as in the field of hygiene and the right/duty to health and environmental protection.
Course Structure
Lectures will be classroom-based, including individual and group exercises on practical cases
Required Prerequisites
No preconditions
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is mandatory
Detailed Course Content
The course is organised in an initial part during which the student will be given a concise but functional overview of private law. The foundations of the subject, its legislative and jurisprudential references will be analysed. The way in which private law affects and governs the world of human relations and business will be accounted for. This first part of the course will be followed by a second part, where some specific topics related to the degree course will be addressed. Topics such as the civil liability of the professional, the company and the employer, the regulation of immissions and health protection on an individual and collective level, and the protection of the environment and the ecosystem.
Textbook Information
Torrente-Schlesinger, Manuale di diritto privato, 2023, 26th edition, in the parts mentioned below:
Chapter I, II
Chapter VI
Chapter LV, until paragraph 471 (Environmental liability)
A student in possession of an earlier edition of the textbook or another private law textbook (Institutions of Private Law) may study from the textbook in his possession by prior agreement with the professor.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the legal system | Torrente-Schlesinger, Chpt. I |
| 2 | Private law and its sources | Torrente-Schlesinger, Chpt. II |
| 3 | Individual legal situations | Torrente-Schlesinger, Chpt. VI |
| 4 | The subject of the legal relationship | Torrente-Schlesinger, Chpt. VII |
| 5 | The natural person | Torrente-Schlesinger, Chpt. VII, A |
| 6 | Personality rights | Torrente-Schlesinger, Chpt. VII, B |
| 7 | Entities | Torrente-Schlesinger, Chpt. VII, C |
| 8 | Properties rights | Torrente-Schlesinger, Chpt. XIII |
| 9 | Property right | Torrente-Schlesinger, Cap. XIII, B |
| 10 | Tort law | Torrente-Schlesinger, Chpt LV. |
| 11 | Strict liability | Torrente-Schlesinger, Cap. LV, paragraph 460 |
| 12 | Liability for environmental damage | Torrente-Schlesinger, Cap. LV, paragraph 471 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The assessment will take into account the level of knowledge expressed by the student in the examination, the pertinence of the answers to the questions, the ability to provide relevant examples, the capacity to connect the different topics of the programme, the possession of technical language, the grade of quality of the content and the presentation mode.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Examples of questions may be: The sources of private law, The differences between contractual and non-contractual liability, Employer's liability, Liability for dangerous activity, The regulation of immissions, The principles of European environmental law.