Comparative contract law

The course focuses on the principal institutions of contract law from a comparative perspective between common law and civil law systems.

In particular, the course will provide students:
- ability to rework principles and rules of private law and to apply such knowledge to specific cases;
- ability to interpret legislation systematically; independent capacity to identify the ratio behind each rule;
- ability in applying the comparative method, in consideration of the divergences and convergences of the major European legal traditions.