Unit COMMERCIAL LAW AND COMPANY LAW
- Course
- Business administration
- Study-unit Code
- 20000509
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- Economico aziendale
- Teacher
- Laura Schiuma
- Teachers
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- Laura Schiuma
- Valentina Pettirossi (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 8 ore - Laura Schiuma
- 55 ore (Codocenza) - Valentina Pettirossi
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline giuridiche
- Sector
- IUS/04
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- As it is known, in the Italian law system as Commercial Law is intended a larger set of issues than those in the Common law system. Thus, it is impossible a precise translation in English; anyway, it is possible to signal that the course has as object the learning of:
1. Business Law or Enterprise Law; Crisis and Insolvency Law;
2. Company Law; Corporation Law; other Business Organizations Law;
3. Negotiables Instruments. - Reference texts
- • AA.VV., Manuale di diritto commerciale, a cura di M. CIAN, volume unico, Torino, Giappichelli, 2025, con esclusione delle seguenti parti: Diritti di proprietà intellettuale; Segni distintivi; Tecnologia e design; Contratti dell’impresa; Diritto del sistema finanziario
• G. PRESTI -M. RESCIGNO, Corso di diritto commerciale, volume unico, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2023, con esclusione delle seguenti parti su Diritti di proprietà intellettuale; Segni distintivi; Contratti
• L. FARENGA, Manuale di diritto commerciale, volume unico Torino, Giappichelli, 2025, con esclusione delle parti su Segni distintivi dell’impresa; Diritti di proprietà industriale e intellettuale; Contratti d’impresa commerciale; Cambiale; Assegno
• G.F. CAMPOBASSO, Manuale di Diritto commerciale, Utet, Torino, 2022, con esclusione delle parti su Segni distintivi; Opere dell’ingegno; Invenzioni industriali; Contratti; Cambiale; Assegno bancario; Assegno circolare. - Educational objectives
- Learning outcomes expected: The course aims to educate students to identify conditions and effects of the rules of law to be applied to real cases and to train them to recognize interests at stake
- Prerequisites
- Institution of Private Law is prerequisit.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal teaching
- Other information
- In order to pass the exam, knowledge of the Civil Code and economic legislation in force at the time of the exam is required.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam is oral
- Extended program
- The following topics will be covered:
Historical evolution and the sources of Commercial Law. –
The enterprise (Article 2082 of Italian Civil Code) and the entrepreneur (typically individual, companies, public entities; associations and foundations in the case of non-profit enterprises).
Categories of Enterprise - the business entrepreneur (Article 2195 of Italian Civil Code), the agricultural entrepreneur (Article 2135 of Italian Civil Code) and the civil enterprise (exclusion) – and the related applicable rules: so called “statuto dell’imprenditore commerciale” and “statuto generale”. Business crises, insolvency proceedings and agreed solutions.
Entrepreneurial organization (Article 2555 of Italian Civil Code).
Enterprise and markets. – Consortia (Article 2602 of Italian Civil Code). Negotiables Instruments.
Companies. Notion of company as for-profit organization (Article 2247 of Italian Civil Code).
The mutual purpose companies (Article 2511 of Italian Civil Code): cooperatives and mutual insurance companies. The consortial purpose companies (Article 2615-ter of Italian Civil Code): consortia companies.
Concept and types of for-profit company (Article 2249 of Italian Civil Code). Partnerships (simple partnership; general partnership; limited partnership) and capital companies (joint stock company, also listed companies; limited liability company; limited partnership by shares).
The fundamental rules of the Companies in general, Partnerships (s.s.; s.n.c., s.a.s.) and Capital companies or Companies incorporated with limited liability (s.p.a; s.r.l.; s.a.p.a.)
The capitalist organisation (Capital and Shares; categories of shares; Obligations; Equity-like instruments) and the corporate organization (the division of corporate powers) in the Joint stock company, also in the light of the supranational framework: the so called “traditional”, the “two-tier” and the “one-tier” system of administration and monitoring; the relative structures, functions, duties and liabilities. The shareholder's meeting.
The capitalist and corporate organisations of Limited partnership by shares (“accomandanti” and “accomandatari” as shareholders, of which the latter are ex lege directors) and (at least in the legal model) of Limited liability companies (Shares, debt securities and shareholder loans; Shareholders' decisions and administrative function). LLC so called “semplificate”; LLC under ordinary law and special law. Corporate control and Groups of companies.