Unit LEX MERCATORIA AND TECNODIRITTO

Course
Legal services
Study-unit Code
A002832
Curriculum
Law and technologies
Teacher
Eloisa Mura
Teachers
  • Eloisa Mura
Hours
  • 42 ore - Eloisa Mura
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2025
Offered
2025/26
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
The course aims to provide an overview of the evolutionary lines and transformations undergone by commercial law between the medieval, modern and contemporary ages, with particular attention to sources (legislative, doctrinal, documentary, jurisdictional), institutions and jurists.
Reference texts
F. Galgano, Lex mercatoria, il Mulino, Bologna, 2016 (excluding chapters X and XI).
Educational objectives
Acquisition by students of a good knowledge of the historical evolution of commercial law and of the importance of considering law, in particular commercial law, also in a historical perspective, perceiving and arguing its changes, processes of rupture and continuities.
Prerequisites
To understand the topics covered in the course and achieve the learning objectives, the student must possess basic elements of general culture and essential knowledge of medieval, modern and contemporary history.
Teaching methods
Lessons.

Other information
Foreign students participating in the Erasmus project will be able to take the exam by agreeing a special program with the teacher.
For students with DSA, appropriate compensatory tools and specific measures will be agreed individually.
For any further information, students can contact the teacher: 1) in the Department during office hours; 2) by email by writing to the institutional email address of the teacher.
Learning verification modality
Oral exam.
In order to evaluate the student's preparation, the following will be taken into account: 1) the notions acquired about the historical periodization, the evolution and the contents of legal thought and institutions; 2) the ability of critical analysis and reasoning in identifying the essential junctures of the historical path and the contents of the legal institutions studied; 3) the adequacy of the technical-legal language used in the presentation.
Extended program
The historical category of commercial law: birth and development of the ius mercatorum. Specialty and universality of merchants’ law. Merchants and artisans in municipal society. The universality of the ius mercatorum. The origin of the joint-stock company: the East India Companies. The nationalization of commercial law: the Ordonnance du commerce (1673). The Code de commerce (1807). Commercial legislation in the experience of the pre-unification Italian states. The Italian Commercial Code of 1865 and that of 1882. The unification of the civil and commercial codes (1942). The new lex mercatoria.
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
Reduce inequalities.

LEX MERCATORIA AND TECNODIRITTO

Code A002832
Location PERUGIA
CFU 2
Teacher Eloisa Mura
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline giuridiche
Sector IUS/19
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)

LEX MERCATORIA AND TECNODIRITTO

Code A002832
Location PERUGIA
CFU 4
Teacher Eloisa Mura
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline giuridiche
Sector IUS/19
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)
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