Legal Instruments for Planning and Managing Transnational Business Activities
A.Y. 2025/2026
Learning objectives
The course aims to equip students with the legal tools necessary for planning and managing the transnational business relations of companies. At the same time, it is intended to develop students' sensitivity and ability to glimpse profiles of interaction, overlap and possibly conflict between different regulatory systems, both in an ex ante perspective of planning future activities and in an ex post analysis of phenomena and situations already in place, enabling them to discuss the arguments in a logical, simple and linear manner. It is also intended to provide them with tools that enable them to prepare concrete mechanisms to prevent or resolve problematic situations.
Expected learning outcomes
Students will acquire the ability to glimpse profiles of interaction, overlap and possibly conflict between different regulatory systems, both in an ex ante perspective of planning future activities and in an ex post analysis of phenomena and situations already in place. Students will therefore be able to reason, unravel, discuss, and deal with these profiles, presenting their arguments in a logical, straightforward, and linear manner. It is also intended to provide them with tools that will enable them to devise concrete mechanisms to prevent or find solutions to problematic situations.
Lesson period: Third trimester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Third trimester
Course syllabus
Relevant legal tools as far as the management of businesses in cross-border settings. Private International Law: objectives and methods. General issues: characterization, connecting factors, renvoi, public policy, overriding mandatory rules. EU Regulation on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations. Conflicts of jurisdiction: EU Brussels I-bis Regulation. Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments: general principles.
Prerequisites for admission
Students are expected to be familiar with the core concepts of private law, particularly in the areas of contractual and non-contractual obligations. Moreover, students are required to master the hierarchy among the sources of international law and to possess in-depth knowledge of the features and functioning of EU legislative instruments. They are advised to attend the crash course in International and EU law, which starts at the end of September.
Teaching methods
The teaching methodology is based on lectures coupled with student oral and PowerPoint presentations, case studies, and simulations. Moreover, the relevant legislative and practice materials (made available on the course MyAriel website and MTeam: code rdk21xv) will be discussed through ongoing participant interactions.
Teaching Resources
F. MOSCONI, C. CAMPIGLIO, Diritto internazionale privato e processuale, Parte generale e obbligazioni, XI ed., UTET, 2024(with the exception of Chapter 6)
Legislative sources are freely available at the EU website https://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=it.
Legislative sources are freely available at the EU website https://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=it.
Assessment methods and Criteria
ATTENDING students will have the opportunity to take intermediate written tests, with open-ended questions, and record the mark expressed in thirtieths resulting from the average of the marks reported in these tests
or
Take the oral exam if both written tests are insufficient or if the student decides to refuse the mark obtained as a result of the written tests. Attending students will also have the opportunity to take the exam entirely in oral form.
During the course, the knowledge gradually acquired will also be assessed through oral and/or digital presentations prepared by students, which will provide an in-depth analysis of the topics covered by the course. As a consequence of these presentations, the student can increase the mark obtained in the intermediate tests by up to 2 points for each presentation.
For non-attending students, the exam is conducted entirely in an oral format.
The purpose of these assessments is to verify students' learning of the general reasoning tools of private international law, their ability to apply them to resolve concrete cases, and to present their assessments using appropriate technical terminology and awareness. The final mark expressed in thirtieths will consider both the knowledge of theoretical aspects and the argumentative and expository skills.
or
Take the oral exam if both written tests are insufficient or if the student decides to refuse the mark obtained as a result of the written tests. Attending students will also have the opportunity to take the exam entirely in oral form.
During the course, the knowledge gradually acquired will also be assessed through oral and/or digital presentations prepared by students, which will provide an in-depth analysis of the topics covered by the course. As a consequence of these presentations, the student can increase the mark obtained in the intermediate tests by up to 2 points for each presentation.
For non-attending students, the exam is conducted entirely in an oral format.
The purpose of these assessments is to verify students' learning of the general reasoning tools of private international law, their ability to apply them to resolve concrete cases, and to present their assessments using appropriate technical terminology and awareness. The final mark expressed in thirtieths will consider both the knowledge of theoretical aspects and the argumentative and expository skills.
IUS/13 - INTERNATIONAL LAW - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor:
Villata Francesca Clara
Professor(s)
Reception:
Every Tuesday at 16.30. Students are also invited to contact prof. Villata via email and arrange a meeting through Microsoft Teams
Room 29, Third Floor, Department of International, Legal, Historical and Political Studies