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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale in Diritto per le tecnologie e l'innovazione sostenibile - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2024/2025
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TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Consumer law and market innovation (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S009808
Academic staff
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
IUS/01 - PRIVATE LAW
Period
2° periodo lezioni (2B) dal Apr 4, 2025 al May 24, 2025.
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
This course is included in the learning area on Internationalization of the markets. It aims at offering students full knowledge of the internal and EU regulatory framework concerning consumer law in the context of market innovation, under the pressure, in particular, of new technologies, and with attention also to the provisions governing B2B relations insofar they are set forth to regulate the distribution chains of goods intended for final consumers.
The different regulatory sources will be studied in depth in order to allow the learning of the essential notions both from a substantive point of view and from the perspective of remedies, including administrative and judicial, for the protection of consumers and weak entrepreneurs.
At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the ability to formulate, autonomously and critically, complex judgments and arguments on the main topics covered by the course.
Students will also acquire the ability to face and solve practical problems typical of the professional context in which they will operate, thus orienting their competence to the goal of contractual compliance and to the prevention of the judicial conflicts. Students will also be able to verify the practical and applicative consequences of the theoretical and regulatory framework and to set, in written and oral form (and also through group work, written exercises and the method of Problem Based Solving - PBS), the solution to concrete issues, using the appropriate and specific disciplinary vocabulary, adopting the correct lines of reasoning and argumentation, and formulating autonomous judgments. The teaching method used is functional to the continuous learning and updating of acquired knowledge.
Prerequisites and basic notions
A prerequisite for attending the course is knowledge of the basic notions of private law, with particular regard to obligations, contracts and civil liability.
Program
The topics covered in the lessons are the following. I. Introduction to the private law of legal transactions in asymmetric contexts. Protected subjects: consumers, weak professionals, minors. European and national sources. Trends, towards an ever-increasing attention to online relationships and the digital market. In particular, consumer law. Fundamental rights and information duties of the professional. II. Unfair commercial practices in relationships between businesses and consumers, in the so-called offline world and in the new digital context. Private and public enforcement. III. Unfair clauses in contracts between professionals and consumers, with particular regard to individual and collective remedies. IV. Pre-contractual information and right of withdrawal in distance contracts and those concluded outside commercial premises. V. The new discipline of the sale of consumer goods: protection and remedies for the consumer also in the digital context. VI. Producer liability, also in light of artificial intelligence. VII. The Digital Services Act: towards a single market for digital services in Europe. VIII. The protection of the weak entrepreneur. The prohibition of abuse of economic dependence, also in the digital context. New frontiers of the regulation of asymmetric contracts: P2B relationships (Platform-to-Business: EU Regulation 2019/1150 and the Digital Markets Act) and notes on contracts between companies for data sharing (protective discipline of the Data Act).
Bibliography
Didactic methods
Some frontal lessons will be proposed, aimed at providing students with a solid institutional basis on the main themes of the law of weak contractors, alternated with numerous moments of in-depth study and debate in the classroom, in particular through the reasoned resolution, by the students, of practical cases provided by the teachers and/or through the presentation of group works prepared and presented by the students under the guidance of the teachers. Where possible, a space of the course will be dedicated to the in-depth study in seminar form of specific topics, directly involving professionals and other experts in the topics covered. For ERASMUS students, the program must be agreed with the teachers at the beginning of the course.
Learning assessment procedures
Attending students: The exam consists of two parts. The first part consists of the evaluation of the activity carried out by the student during the reasoned resolution of the practical cases provided by the teachers and/or during the group work (1/3 of the final grade). The second part consists of an oral exam on the program covered in class (2/3 of the final grade). At the student's choice, it is also possible to produce a short written essay on one of the course topics, which must be submitted within the timeframe agreed with the teachers. In case of a positive evaluation of the essay, the final oral exam may only concern the remaining course topics.
Non-attending students: Oral exam
Evaluation criteria
Knowledge acquisition
Critical reasoning skills
Use of specialized vocabulary
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The outcome of the exam is given by the evaluation, expressed in 30, of the oral exam taken by the student according to the methods reported above.
Exam language
Italiano