For attending students: materials available on the moodle platform.
For not attending students:
- E. Bellisario, V. Cuffaro, L. Rossi Carleo, "Famiglia e successioni. Le forme di circolazione della ricchezza familiare", Giappichelli, fifth edition to be published in 2022;
- materials available on the moodle platform.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge: discipline of Italian Family and Succession Law, also with regard to the historical background and to the European context.
Skill: critical approach to legal issues involving multiple juridical opinions.
Proficiency: interpretation of normative texts through a correct method of legal argumentation.
Prerequisites
Diritto costituzionale generale, Diritto privato I, Diritto privato II
Teaching Methods
Traditional lectures: 48 hrs. Attendance is suggested in the student's own interest.
Seminars with notaries, judges and lawyers are provided during the course in order to introduce the world of legal professions to students.
The students will be invited to write brief legal opinions on practical cases related to the issues analyzed during classes. The interaction with students will be fostered also through the use of the moodle platform.
Further information
The teacher can always be contacted also through his e-mail address: marco.rizzuti@unifi.it
Type of Assessment
Oral exam (in English when requested by students) in order to verify the progress from an elementary level, with particular regard also to case-law. Intermediate tests for attending students, with regard to a part of the program may contribute, at discretion of the single student, to the final evaluation together with the activities realized during the course.
The final evaluation will be sufficient if the student proves to have learned the basic concepts of the private law system and if no gross errors or serious gaps emerge.
Descriptive knowledge, more or less extensive but without critical analysis or enunciation of jurisprudential principles or coordination between institutions, will determine a sufficient evaluation but hardly higher than 24/30.
The evaluation will be excellent if the student answers fully, giving an account of systemic knowledge with reference also to the relevant jurisprudence.
Course program
The part of the course dedicated to Family Law will focus on filiation, having regard to some specific issues emerging in the field of adoptions, assisted reproductive technologies and paternity suits, such as: same-sex parenthood and the recognition of foreign statuses, the perspective of multi-parent families, the right of the child to know about his/her origins, the new rules about children's surnames.
The part of the course dedicated to Successions Law will focus on the transnational dimension related to migration, also in the light of the EU Reg. 650 of 2012, with particular regard to: European Certificate of Succession and public registration systems, issues posed by estates without a claimant, public policy and the possible relevance of family relationships stemming from other cultural traditions for the purposes of successions law, inheritance law and the principle of non discrimination, protection of the testamentary freedom of vulnerable persons, successions and new emerging technologies.