Complementary Course: Anglo-American Private Law
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with greater knowledge how English and American legal professions evolved, and allow them to acquire the tools required for in-depth study and comparison of the systems analyzed.
Expected learning outcomes
Students must be able to demonstrate that they have gained sufficient knowledge of how the legal figures analyzed during the course are educated, in addition to the main characteristics of the different legal traditions. Finally, students must be capable of using precise language to exhibit they have acquired the analytical and argumentative skills necessary to adequately convey the topics covered in lecture, based on the provided course materials and using correct legal terminology.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
The course in Anglo-American private law focuses on various areas of Anglo-American law, ranging from the well-known institutions of private law to topics related to legal culture and the world of legal professions.
This year's course aims to investigate how legal professions are organized in common law systems by focusing on the origin, education and evolution of said professions, with particular attention to the historical, legal and cultural substratum of the relevant systems. The influence of the Anglo/American culture on the Italian legal professionals will be analysed.
This year's course aims to investigate how legal professions are organized in common law systems by focusing on the origin, education and evolution of said professions, with particular attention to the historical, legal and cultural substratum of the relevant systems. The influence of the Anglo/American culture on the Italian legal professionals will be analysed.
Prerequisites for admission
None
Teaching methods
In addition to frontal lectures, the course includes talks with guest instructors.
Teaching Resources
Materials provided during lectures
Assessment methods and Criteria
Credit will be attributed to students who attend at least 70% of the course and a written essay with a positive output.
IUS/02 - COMPARATIVE PRIVATE LAW - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Cerchia Rossella Esther
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Cerchia Rossella EstherEducational website(s)
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