Ateneo - UPO

Object of the course is the analysis of Private Law deriving from the EU and the interaction of member States, in an historical and evolutionary perspective.

Giannantonio BENACCHIO, Diritto Privato della Unione Europea - Fonti, modelli, regole, settima ed., 2016, Wolters Kluver - CEDAM

For students taking part to lessons:
pagg. 3 - 178 e pagg. 239 - 349

The aim of the course is to provide the students with basic notions, in order to identify the rules regarding private parties' interactions that have been modified or influenced by EU law.

No prerequisites.

Classroom lessons and material uploaded during the course.

Special part of the course will be handled with a deeper examination of consumer's rights with regard to contracts and product liability tort law.

Oral exam.

GENERAL PART
- Introduction to EU law - EU institutions and brief history of the Treaties;
- EU private law - armonization, conforming and unification;
- language problems and transposition of concepts;
- Legal fonts: treaties, regulations, directives, CGUE decisions;
- Adjustment of national law to EU law;
- circulation of legal models;
- evolutionary perspectives of EU law.

SPECIAL PART
- company law;
- consumer law;
- product liability tort law;
- competition law;
- Intellectual and Industrial Property law.

At the end of the course, students will have acquired awareness of the mechanisms through which rules, definitions and principles interact in the EU legal framework.