Unit COMMERCIAL LAW AND COMPANY LAW
- Course
- Business administration
- Study-unit Code
- 20000509
- Curriculum
- Economico finanziario
- Teacher
- Federica Innocenti
- Teachers
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- Federica Innocenti
- Hours
- 63 ore - Federica Innocenti
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline giuridiche
- Academic discipline
- IUS/04
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The statutory legislation of enterprises, with a focus on Companies in general, Partnerships, the Joint-Stock Companies and the Limited Liability Companies. The extraordinary operations (business combinations). Restructuring and Bankruptcy proceedings
- Reference texts
- Suggested text Luigi Farenga, Manuale di Diritto Commerciale, Terza edizione, Giappichelli ed., Torino, 2025.
- Educational objectives
- The course provides grounding in Business and Company Law, covering the study of both entrepreneurs and corporations, with a focus on Companies in general, Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies, included restructuring and insolvency proceedings (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Law). The formative objective of the course is to teach fundamentals of Business, Company and Bankruptcy Law in a critical perspective, also with an economic approach and a practical and professional perspective, on the main relevant issues.
- Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand the issues of the course, students must have the basic knowledges of the Italian legal system and sources of law. Moreover students must have passed the exam of "Private Law" (Diritto Privato). This precondition is valid both for attending and not attending students.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal teaching. Presentation and discussion of case law.
- Other information
- Attendance is not mandatory but highly recommended.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam includes a final oral test consisting of a discussion-interview on the topics explained during the course and examined also through recommended text. Moreover this interview will verify that the student is able to communicate the knowledge acquired with method and propriety of language. The duration of the test varies, depending on the performance of the student itself.
- Extended program
- Program: Introduction- The evolution of Business and Company Law. Part I: The enterpreneur and categories of enterpreneurs; the commercial entrepreneur. The Business. Part II: The Company: notion; types of companies: partnerships and corporations; the commercial companies. The Public Limited Companies; the Joint-Stock Company; the Limited Liability Company. The extraordinary operations (business combinations). Part. IV: Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy proceedings.