Course teached as: B026830 - ECONOMIC LAW Second Cycle Degree in ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT Curriculum ECONOMICS
Teaching Language
English
Course Content
How does economic law fit into the wider context of "traditional" legal disciplines? What is the concrete meaning for economic operators of a legal discipline aimed at identifying in the polymorphic relationship between law and economy the most suitable for the inherent legal context? These are the main issues on which the two-part course is structured: A) general principles of the European Economic Law; B) European Capital Market Law and Fintech
Main part)
- P. CRAIG, G. DE BÙRCA, EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials, Oxford University Press, 2015 (ch. 4 to 7 and 17 to 21);
Special part)
- R. VEIL, European Capital Markets Law, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017 (not attending students)
Learning Objectives
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- understand the functioning of the law as a tool of regulation and development for the economic and financial sector;
- work with the foundation principles of the EU Single Market;
- apply their knowledge of legal doctrines to newly emerging forms of business innovation;
- employ skills of spoken and written communication, particularly in the formation of abstract legal concepts;
- independently read and analyse across inter-disciplinary source materials, and then construct a shared understanding by participating in the discussion.
Prerequisites
Not binding prerequisites but suggested: basic notions of private, public and EU law.
Teaching Methods
Class is divided in two modules:
- General (Prof. F. Zatti);
- Special (Prof. F. Zatti)
Further information
Learning tools are available on e-l.unifi.it
Type of Assessment
Learning assessment methods are set up as follows:
A) an oral exam and a written test for attending students;
B) an oral exam for not attending students.
A) the oral exam focuses on the general part of the course. The written test consists of a paper of a maximum of seven hundred words on a subject dealt with in the special part of the course. The final evaluation of the Student is provided for 40% by the oral exam and 60% by the written test;
B) the oral exam covers both the general and special part of the course. Questions may concern all the topics covered in the suggested textbooks.
In both cases, the tests aim at verifying: 1) the knowledge acquired regarding the concepts, models and tools that have been the subject of the course; 2) the skills developed by the student: ability to apply the acquired knowledge, ability to draw conclusions, ability to communicate and use an adequate language, understanding and learning skills.
Course program
The full program of the Course is available on e-l.unifi.it.