"The course aims to provide students of the Industrial Engineering degree course with the fundamentals of law, starting from the essential rudiments and moving up to the special laws relating to consumer law and patents.
We also aim to raise future professionals' awareness of the characteristics of the contractual schemes that they will encounter during their future activity and, ultimately, to analyze the profiles of civil liability, also through practical cases".
We also aim to raise future professionals' awareness of the characteristics of the contractual schemes that they will encounter during their future activity and, ultimately, to analyze the profiles of civil liability, also through practical cases".
teacher profile teaching materials
1. The rules of law
2. What is a legal system
3. Every order is a system
4. Constitution and constitutional order
5. The main theories of the constitution
6. Public law and private law
MODULE 2 – Jurisdiction
1. Jurisdiction
2. Constitutional and international guarantees of jurisdiction
3. Ordinary jurisdiction
4. Limits to ordinary jurisdiction
5. Italian jurisdiction
6. Mandatory nature of Italian jurisdiction
MODULE 3 – The sources of law
1. Definition of sources of law. Sources of cognition and sources of production
2. The current list of sources of law
3. The criteria of coordination between the sources of law: the hierarchical principle; The
4. principle of jurisdiction; the chronological principle
5. (a) The hierarchical principle
6. b) The principle of competence
7. (c) The chronological principle
8. The Constitution, constitutional revision laws and constitutional laws
9. The constitutional illegitimacy of the provisions of the law. The Constitutional Court
10. The Constitution and private law relationships
11. Community sources
12. Laws and other acts having the "force of law"
13. The codes and their position in the system of sources of law
14. The function of codes
15. The Italian civil code: historical notes
16. The partitions of the Italian civil code. Sectoral legislation and
new codifications
17. Statutes and regional laws
18. The regulations
19. Normative uses (or custom)
20. Normative uses, negotiating uses and interpretative uses: differences
21. Equity
22. Jurisprudence: Civil law and Common law systems
MODULE 4 – Obligations and contracts
1. The obligation
2. Fulfillment
3. The obligation: its methods of extinction and non-fulfilment
4. Creditor's default, joint and several obligations and alternative obligations
5. Financial obligations
6. Modifications of the passive and active sides of the obligation
7. Compensation for damages: discipline and determination criteria
8. Compensatory protection
9. The contract in general
10. Constraints in the formation of the contract and pre-contractual liability
11. Discipline of representation and cause of the contract
12. The shape
13. Accidental elements
14. Nullity
15. Cancellation
16. Resolution
17. Termination
18. The «other» sources of obligations
19. Aquilian responsibility
20. The function of Aquilian responsibility and the causes of justification
21. The so-called Aquiliana responsibilities special
22. Non-pecuniary damage
23. Sales contract
24. Use contracts and loan contracts
MODULE 5 – Contracts and consumer rights
1. Introduction. The genesis and reasons for consumer law
2. The subjects: the "consumer" and the "professional".
3. The protection of the weak contractor in relationships between entrepreneurs
4. "Consumer education"; information obligations, advertising communication and commercial promotion
5. Consumer contracts and unfair terms
6. 361-bis. Pre-contractual information in the 2014 news
7. Off-premises contracts and distance contracts.
"Electronic commerce". Remote marketing of financial services
8. 363-bis. Consumer credit
9. Special protections: injunction actions and collective action for compensation
MODULE 6 – The procurement contract
1. Delimitation of the negotiating figure
2. Systematic framework
3. Concrete cause of the contract
4. The content: main and accessory obligations
5. The subjects of the contract
6. The shape
7. Contract and similar figures
8. The execution of the contract
9. Changes during construction
10. The added burden and executive difficulty
11. Completion of the contract: verification, testing, acceptance, delivery and payment
12. Guarantee for discrepancies and defects in the work: conditions and remedies
13. Liability for damage or defects in immovable property
14. Causes for termination of the contract
MODULE 7 – Intellectual property and patents
1. Function and structure of the patent
2. The definition of the invention
3. Patentability requirements
4. The patenting procedure
5. The rights arising from the invention
6. The invention of the worker and the invention made to order
7. Extension and protection of the patent
8. The circulation of patent rights and patent rights
9. Extinction and nullity of the patent
10. New sectors and special patents
11. Industrial patents
MODULE 8 – The civil responsibility of the engineer
1. General characteristics of responsibility
2. The legislation on safety and health in the workplace
3. The regulations on safety on construction sites
4. The legislation on public procurement
5. The declaration of commencement of activity
A. BARBERA, C. FUSARO, Corso di diritto pubblico, Dodicesima Edizione, Il Mulino, 2022;
V. COLESANTI, E.T. LIEBMAN, E. MERLIN, E. RICCI, Manuale di Diritto Processuale Civile – Principi, Settima Edizione, Giuffrè Editore, 2007;
G. IORIO, Corso di Diritto Privato, Quinta Edizione, Giappichelli Editore, 2022;
F. GALGANO, Manuale di Diritto Privato, Diciannovesima Edizione, Wolters Kluwer, 2022;
F. ANELLI, C. GRANELLI, P. SCHLESINGER, A. TORRENTE, Manuale di Diritto Privato, Venticinquesima Edizione, Giuffrè 2021;
C. TRAPUZZANO, L’appalto privato, Giuffrè 2020;
G. CAVANI, G. GHIDINI, Lezioni di diritto industriale, Giuffrè, 2014;
A. MUSIO, G. SALITO, La responsabilità dell’ingegnere, Giappichelli, 2010.
Considering that this is a multi-theme course and the complexity in finding the aforementioned study sources, handouts and slides in PDF version will be provided to students.
Programme
MODULE 1 – Law and Regulation1. The rules of law
2. What is a legal system
3. Every order is a system
4. Constitution and constitutional order
5. The main theories of the constitution
6. Public law and private law
MODULE 2 – Jurisdiction
1. Jurisdiction
2. Constitutional and international guarantees of jurisdiction
3. Ordinary jurisdiction
4. Limits to ordinary jurisdiction
5. Italian jurisdiction
6. Mandatory nature of Italian jurisdiction
MODULE 3 – The sources of law
1. Definition of sources of law. Sources of cognition and sources of production
2. The current list of sources of law
3. The criteria of coordination between the sources of law: the hierarchical principle; The
4. principle of jurisdiction; the chronological principle
5. (a) The hierarchical principle
6. b) The principle of competence
7. (c) The chronological principle
8. The Constitution, constitutional revision laws and constitutional laws
9. The constitutional illegitimacy of the provisions of the law. The Constitutional Court
10. The Constitution and private law relationships
11. Community sources
12. Laws and other acts having the "force of law"
13. The codes and their position in the system of sources of law
14. The function of codes
15. The Italian civil code: historical notes
16. The partitions of the Italian civil code. Sectoral legislation and
new codifications
17. Statutes and regional laws
18. The regulations
19. Normative uses (or custom)
20. Normative uses, negotiating uses and interpretative uses: differences
21. Equity
22. Jurisprudence: Civil law and Common law systems
MODULE 4 – Obligations and contracts
1. The obligation
2. Fulfillment
3. The obligation: its methods of extinction and non-fulfilment
4. Creditor's default, joint and several obligations and alternative obligations
5. Financial obligations
6. Modifications of the passive and active sides of the obligation
7. Compensation for damages: discipline and determination criteria
8. Compensatory protection
9. The contract in general
10. Constraints in the formation of the contract and pre-contractual liability
11. Discipline of representation and cause of the contract
12. The shape
13. Accidental elements
14. Nullity
15. Cancellation
16. Resolution
17. Termination
18. The «other» sources of obligations
19. Aquilian responsibility
20. The function of Aquilian responsibility and the causes of justification
21. The so-called Aquiliana responsibilities special
22. Non-pecuniary damage
23. Sales contract
24. Use contracts and loan contracts
MODULE 5 – Contracts and consumer rights
1. Introduction. The genesis and reasons for consumer law
2. The subjects: the "consumer" and the "professional".
3. The protection of the weak contractor in relationships between entrepreneurs
4. "Consumer education"; information obligations, advertising communication and commercial promotion
5. Consumer contracts and unfair terms
6. 361-bis. Pre-contractual information in the 2014 news
7. Off-premises contracts and distance contracts.
"Electronic commerce". Remote marketing of financial services
8. 363-bis. Consumer credit
9. Special protections: injunction actions and collective action for compensation
MODULE 6 – The procurement contract
1. Delimitation of the negotiating figure
2. Systematic framework
3. Concrete cause of the contract
4. The content: main and accessory obligations
5. The subjects of the contract
6. The shape
7. Contract and similar figures
8. The execution of the contract
9. Changes during construction
10. The added burden and executive difficulty
11. Completion of the contract: verification, testing, acceptance, delivery and payment
12. Guarantee for discrepancies and defects in the work: conditions and remedies
13. Liability for damage or defects in immovable property
14. Causes for termination of the contract
MODULE 7 – Intellectual property and patents
1. Function and structure of the patent
2. The definition of the invention
3. Patentability requirements
4. The patenting procedure
5. The rights arising from the invention
6. The invention of the worker and the invention made to order
7. Extension and protection of the patent
8. The circulation of patent rights and patent rights
9. Extinction and nullity of the patent
10. New sectors and special patents
11. Industrial patents
MODULE 8 – The civil responsibility of the engineer
1. General characteristics of responsibility
2. The legislation on safety and health in the workplace
3. The regulations on safety on construction sites
4. The legislation on public procurement
5. The declaration of commencement of activity
Core Documentation
The course program is based on the following texts:A. BARBERA, C. FUSARO, Corso di diritto pubblico, Dodicesima Edizione, Il Mulino, 2022;
V. COLESANTI, E.T. LIEBMAN, E. MERLIN, E. RICCI, Manuale di Diritto Processuale Civile – Principi, Settima Edizione, Giuffrè Editore, 2007;
G. IORIO, Corso di Diritto Privato, Quinta Edizione, Giappichelli Editore, 2022;
F. GALGANO, Manuale di Diritto Privato, Diciannovesima Edizione, Wolters Kluwer, 2022;
F. ANELLI, C. GRANELLI, P. SCHLESINGER, A. TORRENTE, Manuale di Diritto Privato, Venticinquesima Edizione, Giuffrè 2021;
C. TRAPUZZANO, L’appalto privato, Giuffrè 2020;
G. CAVANI, G. GHIDINI, Lezioni di diritto industriale, Giuffrè, 2014;
A. MUSIO, G. SALITO, La responsabilità dell’ingegnere, Giappichelli, 2010.
Considering that this is a multi-theme course and the complexity in finding the aforementioned study sources, handouts and slides in PDF version will be provided to students.
Reference Bibliography
A. BARBERA, C. FUSARO, Corso di diritto pubblico, Dodicesima Edizione, Il Mulino, 2022; V. COLESANTI, E.T. LIEBMAN, E. MERLIN, E. RICCI, Manuale di Diritto Processuale Civile – Principi, Settima Edizione, Giuffrè Editore, 2007; G. IORIO, Corso di Diritto Privato, Quinta Edizione, Giappichelli Editore, 2022; F. GALGANO, Manuale di Diritto Privato, Diciannovesima Edizione, Wolters Kluwer, 2022; F. ANELLI, C. GRANELLI, P. SCHLESINGER, A. TORRENTE, Manuale di Diritto Privato, Venticinquesima Edizione, Giuffrè 2021; C. TRAPUZZANO, L’appalto privato, Giuffrè 2020; G. CAVANI, G. GHIDINI, Lezioni di diritto industriale, Giuffrè, 2014; A. MUSIO, G. SALITO, La responsabilità dell’ingegnere, Giappichelli, 2010.Attendance
The course includes 24 lessons of 2 hours each, for a weekly frequency of 2 lessons. Student attendance at lessons is at the discretion of each individual student.Type of evaluation
Knowledge of the topics covered during the course will be assessed during a single oral interview with each student, whether attending or not.