Teaching code

4S009846

Academic staff

Enrico Andreoli, Sabrina Ferrazzi

Coordinator

Enrico Andreoli

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

IUS/02 - COMPARATIVE PRIVATE LAW

Period

2° periodo lezioni (2A) dal Feb 11, 2026 al Mar 24, 2026.

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The course is intended to provide the student with the knowledge of the basics of the comparative method, which is key to understand the phenomena of contemporary societies as well as the categories, meaning, functioning of private and public law tools.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to elaborate on public and private law rules and notions, applying the comparative methodology, in both written and oral forms, developing proper reasoning and argumentation, using an appropriate and specific vocabulary, reaching independent judgement on actual cases.

Prerequisites and basic notions

As a first-year teaching, there are no specific prerequisites different from those required for admission to the Degree Course.

Program

1. In the part of classroom lectures dedicated to comparative public law (15 hours), after an introduction on the method, functions and methods of legal comparison, the course deals with the concepts of legal family and legal tradition. The concept of the source of law is then explored in depth and the main manifestations of the legal phenomenon in the various families and traditions previously analyzed will be illustrated (forms of State, forms of government, ways of producing the legal phenomenon).
2. In the part of classroom lectures dedicated to comparative private law (15 hours), the course will focus on substantive private law institutions and on comparative law's role in professional life. Special attention will be paid to contract law and issues related to international contracts.
3. Flanking the classroom lectures are two laboratories for attending students, one in the area of public law and one in the area of private law (6 hours each): both are structured according to innovative teaching methods (“Learning by Doing”), through the active involvement of students in the training experience.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The course includes lectures for 30 hours and two laboratories for a total of 12 hours; attendance is strongly recommended.
Within the teaching methods, the following is specified.
1. An innovative teaching activity will be carried out by means of online laboratory activities for attending students.
2. Students enabled to use the recorded lectures and accessible via the Panopto platform (i. with a disability, or DSA, upon notification to the Professor by the "UO Inclusione e Accessibilità"; ii. participants in the “PA 110 e lode” training project) can access the recordings of the workshop activities.
3. Incoming Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor in charge of the teaching (enrico.andreoli@univr.it) for the precise definition of the teaching methods dedicated to them.

Learning assessment procedures

The assessment of expected learning outcomes differs for attending and non-attending students, as follows.
Students who attend 80% of the lectures (24/30 hours) are considered to be attending; any students enabled to use the recorded lectures and accessible via the Panopto platform (indicated above) are considered to be attending upon confirmation of the viewing of 80% of the recorded lectures (24/30 hours). For these students, attendance will be verified by examining Zoom reports showing attendance at lectures/laboratories within a maximum period that will be communicated in advance by the professors.
1. For attending students: at the first examination session after the end of classes, written test with multiple-choice and open-ended answers, of one and a half hours' duration, whose programme is made up of the topics covered during the classroom lectures and online laboratories. After the first examination session indicated, the examination takes place orally, with the programme remaining unchanged.
Students who do not attend the online laboratory activities are required to bring a supplementary programme to the examination, consisting of material that will be specified by the professors and made available in advance on the Moodle page for the course.
2. For non-attending students: oral test, whose syllabus consists of the examination bibliography indicated in the appropriate section.
The reference texts are as follows:
- G. Ajani, D. Francavilla, B. Pasa, "Diritto comparato", Capitoli 1-2-3 del Volume 1;
- G. Alpa, "Diritto privato comparato: istituti e problemi", pp. 3-44, 165-229, 371-415;
- L. Pegoraro, A. Rinella, "Costituzioni e fonti del diritto", Capitoli 1-2.
For any information, non-attending students may refer to the professor in charge of the teaching (enrico.andreoli@univr.it).
3. Incoming Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor in charge of the teaching (enrico.andreoli@univr.it) for the precise definition of the examination arrangements for them (consisting of the discussion of a paper).

Evaluation criteria

The evaluation criteria include the ascertainment of:
1. the depth and breadth of knowledge gained;
2. the ownership of language;
3. the analytical and argumentative ability;
4. the ability to critically reflect on and link the topics covered in the teaching programme.
The evaluation of the final examination (both written and oral) is expressed in thirtieths.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final grade is made up on the basis of the verification of the criteria mentioned.

Exam language

Italiano; per gli studenti Erasmus incoming è prevista la possibilità di effettuare la prova d'esame loro dedicata (discussione di un paper) in lingua inglese. / Italian; incoming Erasmus students will have the opportunity to take their exam (discussion of a paper) in English.

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