Introduction to Private Law

The course aims to:
I. make the student acquire full knowledge and comprehension of the fundamental rules and institutions of private law (persons, the rights of personality, the rights of ownership, property interests, real estates, the law of obligations, the law of contracts, tort law) so as to enable him to approach the subsequent courses, meaning in particular International Trade Law, Commercial Law and Private International Law;
II. make the student acquire full knowledge of the private law methodology for problem solving;
III. make the student acquire full comprehension of the ratio of private law rules;
IV. make the student fully understand the topical problems and current events linked with private law institutions;
V. make the student acquire full knowledge of the structure of Italian Civil Code as the fundamental tool for managing any private law issue, both within the degree course and the future career dealing with private law issues.

The expected learning outcomes are the following:
I. full knowledge and comprehension of the main private law institutions;
II. ability to independently apply the methodology acquired during the course to solve cases other than those approached during the classes or those included in the teaching program but anyway useful in an inter-disciplinary context;
III. ability to fully understand and critically argue the personal opinion in relation to topical problems linked with private law;
IV. ability to express the knowledge acquired with an appropriate legal language;
V. ability to solve a private law case dealing with the principles and the rules within the Italian Civil Code.
VI. ability to fully understand and interpret the rules of the Italian Civil Code (even different from those studied during the course).