The Course aims at conducting a comparative analysis of some of the key institutions of private law, including contract and tort, and their role in digital markets. By introducing students to the comparative methodology in the study of law, it furthers a better understanding of national law and it aims at developing critical and analytical tools through which students will be able to identify and research relevant issues in the private law of digital markets, through a direct approach to normative, jurisprudential and doctrinal sources of foreign and supranational law.