Teaching code

4S00388

Academic staff

Federica Pasquariello, Chiara Zamboni

Coordinator

Federica Pasquariello

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

IUS/04 - BUSINESS LAW

Period

Secondo semestre L dal Feb 17, 2025 al May 30, 2025.

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The course focuses on Business Law referring to:
- enterprise law, including basic information on trademarks and brands and unfair competition;
- basic background on debt securities, such as shares and bonds;
- company law, in relation to partnerships, limited liability companies and cooperatives.
A case-by-case analysis is included.
Finally, students are supposed to show:
- full understanding of business law regulatory framework;
- full awareness of Corporate law main items;
- how to consciously and correctly use both the specialist legal language, and legal reasoning method.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Basic civil law

Program

Business law and corporate, personal and capital law. In particular: - The concept of entrepreneur. The small entrepreneur. Agricultural and commercial entrepreneur. - The company and its transfer. - Unfair competition - The concept of society; partnerships and capital companies. - The simple company: administration and relations with third parties. - The simple partnership: relationships between partners. - The general partnership. - The limited partnership. - The joint-stock company. Notion. Constitution. - The financial structure of the joint stock company: shares and financial instruments - The corporate bodies: assembly, directors, board of auditors. - The audit. - Alternative models of corporate governance: dual-tier system, one-tier system. - The budget: drafting, approval, profits, dividend. - Amendments to the articles of association. - The dissolution of the joint-stock company. - The limited liability company. - The limited partnership by shares. Recommended text: M. Campobasso, Manual of commercial law, Utet, ed 2022 (pages 1-74; 97-395).
Optional text, for the purposes of presentations by student volunteers, according to the methods communicated in the classroom: S. Ambrosini, L'impresa nella Costituzione, Zanichelli, 2024

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Face-to-face lessons (and recorded)

Learning assessment procedures

Written exam with 16 multiple choice quizzes. 3 open questions, from 0 to 5 points. Duration 45 min. Consultation of regulatory texts is not permitted. There are no differences between attending and non-attending students. Intermediate written test on the first module: 12 quizzes (+ 4 quizzes and 3 open questions in the final test) Optional activities: classroom presentations on additional parts of the program, taken from the volume edited by S Abrosini L'impresa nella politica, Zanichelli, 2024 , evaluable from or to 3 bonus points

Evaluation criteria

Knowledge of the topics in the program will be assessed; mastery of legal language will also be assessed during the optional oral exam

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

There are no penalties for incorrect or omitted quiz answers; 1 point for each correct answer; from 0 to 5 points in the answer to the open questions.

Exam language

italiano