Unit LAW FOR FAMILIES AND MINORS
- Course
- Social service
- Study-unit Code
- 10A00031
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Alessia Valongo
- Teachers
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- Alessia Valongo
- Hours
- 63 ore - Alessia Valongo
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2018/19
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline giuridiche
- Sector
- IUS/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
For international and Erasmus students readings and other course material are available in English on the web site: www.scipol.unipg.it. Students area. Unistudium Platform.
The oral exam, as detailed in the course program, may be taken in English. Please contact the instructor for further details and to schedule an appointment during the first week of the fall semester. - Contents
- General principles of family and child legal system. Person, legal capacity and competence. Human rights, subjective situations and interests. Abortion and human assisted reproduction. Instruments for the protection of adults with mental and physical incapacity or disabilities. Variety of family models. Legitimate family and the de facto couple. The filiation. Minor’s rights. The relationship between parents and child. Parentage and kinship. The minor’s adoption. Legal consequences of domestic abuse and violence. Marriage and its validity. The conjugal crisis: separation and divorce.
- Reference texts
- For the first module, the following books are suggested:
1) M. NUZZO, Introduzione alle scienze giuridiche, in Le istituzioni del Diritto Privato edited by M. Nuzzo, Torino, Giappichelli, ult. ed. The study of this book is limited to chapter I, chapter II (first and second sections) and chapter III (first section);
2) A. VALONGO, New parental relationships within reproductive technologies' law.
For the second module, students can choose the following key text-books:
- C.M. BIANCA, Diritto civile, 2.1, La famiglia, Giuffrè, Milano, 2014.
For international and Erasmus students, the following book is suggested: F. Burton, Family law, Routledge, London and New York, 2012. - Educational objectives
- The main outcome of the course is the delivery of basic training in the field of Family and children law. The course aims to give appropriate legal research methods and instruments, with the final objective of giving students the capacity of being able to apply the acquired knowledge in resolving legal problems, through the teaching of lawmakers, courts and legal scholars.
- Prerequisites
- Si richiede la conoscenza della lingua italiana.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized in the following way: - face to face lectures regarding single topics of the teaching program; - practical training (8 seminars of 2 hours each) concerning some current affairs on the subject. Students are invited to participate in the lectures bringing an updated version of the civil code, the Constitution and the most important relevant legislation. The seminars provide an active involvement of the students, who will present practical law cases regarding the addressed matter. Before each seminar the professor will indicate the study material referring to a recent and significant decision of a law-court that will be examined by the students during the seminars on the basis of legislation, judicial precedents and legal literature.
- Other information
- The students’ attendance to the course is strongly suggested.
- Learning verification modality
- The final evaluation will be given through an oral exam of approximately 20 minutes. This final exam consists in 4/5 questions concerning the whole teaching’s program and it aims to verify the level of knowledge, the learning and communication skills of the single students. Only for attending students, the global evaluation can be divided in two phases: in addition to the final exam, two intermediate exams are provided: passing one of them will give exemption from a part of the teaching program within the final exam.
The first intermediate evaluation test is written and regards the first module of the teaching program and its passing will exempt students from the preparation on the first module’s subjects; it lasts no longer than 90 minutes and is composed by 20/25 closed questions with multiple answers and one open question.
The second intermediate exam consists in the presentation, lasting about 15 minutes, based on the research, study and comment of a judicial decision regarding one of the central issus of the course. The scope of this second evaluation is to check applying knowledge and understanding, making autonomous judgements and communication ability of students. - Extended program
- The teaching program of Family and Children lawis divided into two parts.
The first part of the course will regard the following topics. Notions of general theory of civil law: general principles of family and child legal system, legal rules, sources of private law, rules interpretation methodology. Person, legal capacity and competence. Human rights, subjective situations and interests; in particular, the rights to life and to health. Abortion regulations. Legal aspects of human assisted reproduction. Instruments for the protection of adults with mental and physical incapacity or disabilities.
The second part of the course will be on the following issues. Variety of family models. Legitimate family and the de facto couple. The filiation. Minor’s rights. The relationship between parents and child. Parentage and kinship. The alimony obligation. The minor’s adoption. Legal consequences of domestic abuse and violence. Marriage and its validity. The status of spouses: individual rights and duties between husband and wife. The conjugal crisis: separation and divorce. Maintenance agreements. Ancillary relief, custody of children and matrimonial home.