Private Law in Europe and Latin America

The course develops knowledge of problems concerning the private law relations in the transnational level, having regard to the possible solutions offered by the different legal traditions and by their comparison beyond the Euro-centric legal approach. By the end of their classes: a) students should be aware of the differences and similarities among legal systems and they will be encouraged to in-deepth legal analysis also taking into account the social, political and economic components of the legal phenomenon; b) students will be provided with knowledge necessary for a critical understanding of the legal systems, and in particular of some fields of private law in the framework of the harmonization and unification of private law; c) students will have a greater familiarity with transnational problems understanding the legal experiences different from the Italian one.

By the end of the course, students will acquire cultural, methodological and specific competences (by direct teaching) and they will strengthen communication skills (by classroom discussions and flipped classrooms) in order to develop a deep understanding of comparative private law in supranational dimension. Students will be familiar especially with: a) the main topics concerning different legal systems and how to carry out comparison between private law rules, paying attention to those most involved by EU law and International conventions with a private content (for example, consumer law, civil liability and civil rights protection); c) the use of comparative taxonomic models between different legal systems; d) to use bibliographic legal data with a good degree of autonomous competence and to prepare a brief presentation on comparative legal problems.