CIAN (a cura di), Manuale di diritto commerciale, II ed., Torino, 2018, sezz. VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII. If a later edition of this manual is published, it is advisable to find this one.
TOMBARI, “Potere” e “interessi” nella grande impresa azionaria, Milano, 2019.
For attending students it is possible to use the lecture notes, together with any materials indicated during the course.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge
Principles and regulations concerning business organization law. Assets partition and legal personality in corporate law.
Skills
i) Capacity to deal with major theoretical and practical issues arising from commercial law and group of companies law.
ii) Capacity to find and discuss regulations, cases, and bibliography in order to properly set and solve legal problems.
Ability
Critical understanding of the role of business law, with particular reference to wealth creation, financing, innovation. Ability in discussing legal issues according to the principles of commercial law.
Prerequisites
In order to take the exam students shall have passed the following exams: General Constitutional Law, Private Law I.
Teaching Methods
The course takes place through lectures, exercises and seminars. The judgments and the papers subject to in-depht analysis will be available for the attending students
Further information
Type of Assessment
Final exam: the oral exam will be mainly aimed to test the knowledge of the most important institutions of commercial law, as well as the ability to argue about theoretical and practical issues.
During the examination the candidates will have to show ability to find and discuss the relevant rules for the matter (primarily, the Civil Code), which they will be allowed to read.
It is also necessary to show ability to master the general rules of Private law on which Commercial law is based.
Course program
The course will examine the normative principles concerning the most widespread business structures in the italian (and international) context. More specifically, the course focuses on the rules regarding the constitution, financial structure and governance of the "società per azioni" and on the rules concerning the groups of companies.