Criminal Law

The aim of the course is to provide students with the following competences:
A comprehensive understanding of the fundamental principles and institutions of Italian Criminal Law.
The knowledge of the most relevant case-law related to Italian Criminal Law.
The ability to interpret the rules of the general part of the Italian Penal Code, as well as to understand their elementary relations with the rules of the special part.
The ability to properly handle the Penal Code.
The abilities to address, discuss and solve practical cases in accordance with Italian Criminal Law.
The ability to understand and to use the appropriate legal terminology.

At the end of the course, students who have successfully learned the subject will have a strong institutional knowledge of the general part of Italian Criminal Law. In addition, they will be acquainted with the Italian Penal Code, they will have enhanced their legal reasoning skills and they will be able to argue, by means of the appropriate terminology, their own thesis when confronted with simple legal problems in the field of criminal law.