Fundamentals of Public and Private Law

The general objective of this course is to provide students with the tools to understand the basic and main institutes of Italian private law and Italian public law.
Moreover, it aims at allowing the students to understand how to deal with a private or public law problem at an institutional level and to provide an appropriate response at an institutional level.
The first part will deal with: a) a general framework of the discipline; b) the Italian constitutional organization; c) the constitutional rights and duties.
The section on Private Law will include an overall analysis of the essential branches of private law as regulated in the Italian Civil Code and in its most important complementary laws. The structure of the Italian Civil Code will be part of the course.

At the end of the course, the students are expected to be able to
- interpret the main institutions of Private law and Public law in socio-economic practice.
- assess the legal problem that comes to light in a given case relating to relations between individuals, companies and public bodies,
- provide logical and consistent answers to the problem by identifying the legal institution applicable to the case in question.