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Private Law
REGGIO DI CALABRIA
Overview
Date/time interval
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to provide students with knowledge of the sources, fundamental concepts, and institutions of private law, with a particular focus on family law and the protection of minors and vulnerable adults, while also taking into account the most recent legislative changes.
By the end of the course, students should achieve the following learning objectives:
- clear knowledge of the sources, institutions, and fundamental concepts of private law;
- ability to interpret and apply legal provisions in the contexts in which educators operate;
- ability to argue and express their thoughts clearly and using legal language, and to identify solutions to legal problems;
- ability to engage with teachers and students on the topics covered.
Course Prerequisites
Anyone
Teaching Methods
Lectures, guided classroom discussions, seminars and round tables with industry experts
Assessment Methods
The final exam consists of an oral exam. The evaluation criteria used to assess learning outcomes during the oral exam include:
- the completeness and relevance of the knowledge acquired
- the ability to critically analyze the legislation and case law examined
- proficiency in the use of legal language
Criteri di valutazione:
Ai fini dell'attribuzione del voto si seguiranno i criteri seguenti:
30 e lode: conoscenza completa, approfondita e critica degli argomenti, eccellente proprietà di linguaggio, completa ed originale capacità interpretativa, piena capacità di applicare autonomamente le conoscenze per risolvere i problemi proposti;
28 - 30: conoscenza completa e approfondita degli argomenti, ottima proprietà di linguaggio, completa ed efficace capacità interpretativa, attitudine ad applicare autonomamente le conoscenze per risolvere i problemi proposti;
24 - 27: conoscenza degli argomenti con un buon grado di padronanza, buona proprietà di linguaggio, corretta e sicura capacità interpretativa, buona capacità di applicare in modo corretto la maggior parte delle conoscenze per risolvere i problemi proposti;
20 - 23: conoscenza adeguata degli argomenti ma limitata padronanza degli stessi, soddisfacente proprietà di linguaggio, corretta capacità interpretativa, più che sufficiente capacità di applicare autonomamente le conoscenze per risolvere i problemi proposti;
18 - 19: conoscenza di base degli argomenti principali, conoscenza di base del linguaggio tecnico, sufficiente capacità interpretativa, sufficiente capacità di applicare le conoscenze di base acquisite;
Insufficiente: non possiede una conoscenza accettabile degli argomenti trattati durante il corso.
Attending students will be able to take an intermediate evaluation test concerning the first part of the course (from general notions to inheritance law included)
Once the exemption test has been passed, the final exam will cover the remaining part of the program.
Texts
Testo consigliato: L. Lenti, Diritto di famiglia e servizi sociali, VI ed., Giappichelli, (2025), Cap. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XIX (pagg. 3-129; 151-248; 383 - 402).
The following supplementary readings should be added to the study of the manual:
- G. De Cristofaro, Le "unioni civili" fra coppie del medesimo sesso. Note critiche sulla disciplina contenuta nei commi 1°-34° dell'art.1 della l. 20 maggio 2016, n. 76, integrata dal d. lgs. 19 gennaio 2017, n. 5, in Le Nuove leggi civili commentate, n. 1 del 2017, pagg. 101-142;
- C. Irti, Persona minore di età e libertà di autodeterminazione, in Giustizia civile, n. 3 del 2019, pagg. 617 - 649.
We recommend using the latest edition of a Civil Code which includes, in addition to the main related laws, the texts of the Constitution and the Treaty of the European Union.
Contents
PRIVATE LAW program channel M/Z
Academic Year 2024 – 2025
Three-year degree course in Education and Training Sciences
(8 credits)
Notions and functions of law. The sources of private law. The interpretation and application of the law.
Legal situations. Active and passive subjective legal situations. Distinction between the various types of subjective rights. The loss of rights. Judicial protection of rights.
Goods and things. Classifications of goods. The property. Real rights of enjoyment. Ways of purchasing and protecting property. Possession and detention. The acquisition of real rights through possession. The protection of possession.
The natural person and collective bodies
The law of obligations and contracts in general. Facts and legal acts. The contract: the essential elements. Contracts between professionals and consumers and the protection of the weaker contractor. The effects of the contract. Withdrawal from the contract. The contract and third parties. Condition and term. Representation. The invalidity of the contract (causes and consequences). The execution of the contract (fulfillment and non-fulfilment). Termination of the contract. The financial responsibility of the debtor. Legitimate causes of pre-emption. Sales and rental contracts.
The illicit facts
Inheritance due to death. The hereditary transmission of rights and obligations. Differences between inheritance and legacy. The different succession hypotheses: legitimate, testamentary and necessary. Anomalous successions. Hereditary communion and division. The family pact.
Family law and its sources. Evolution of family law. The European principles of family law. Internal, European and international legislation on the family. The family in jurisprudence. Family ties: marriage, kinship and affinity. Marital status and registry office.
Marriage and civil union.
The family property regime. The different property regimes. Legal communion and its discipline. Conventional regimes. The separation of assets. Conventional communion. The patrimonial fund. The family business.
Divorce, separation and annulment of marriage and civil union. Regulatory evolution. Discipline and consequences. Custody of children in the division of the parental couple
De facto coexistence. Definition and discipline
Protection against domestic violence
Filiation
The protection of minors and "weak" adults
More information
Students working or enrolled beyond the third year outside the course will be able to take the exam in two parts (first the general part and then the part concerning family and minors' law)