Università Roma Tre

The course aims to provide students with basic knowledge on juridical comparation in the frame of the integration process of the European Union and in the international legal context.

The course is structured in two teaching parts. The first part is focused on methodological and substantial issues on the comparative study of the law and the uniformation of the law; the second part deals with specific areas covered by the comparative study of the law and the juridical unification technique.

First part:
The legal comparison as way of studying and understanding the law.
The legal comparison as socio-cultural and technical-professional phenomenon.
The modern origins of comparative law and the notion of open legal system.
The legal interpretation: the role of the case law and the doctrine.
The uniformation of the law: methodological and theoretical issues.
Uniformation of the law and formation of European Union law.
Uniformation of the law, European citizenship and fundamental rights.
Techniques and models of the uniform law.

Second part:
The concept of law and the various “types” of law.
The historical forms of property in the European juridical culture.
The intellectual property rights.
The European contractual law.
The circulation of the goods.
The legal experience of the traditional Chinese world.

Course materials:

(i) MOCCIA L., Comparazione giuridica e prospettive di studio del diritto, Wolters Kluwer- Cedam, 2016.
(ii) BONELL M.J., Comparazione giuridica e unificazione del diritto, in Multiple Authors, Diritto privato comparato. Istituti e problemi, Laterza, Rome-Bari, 2008, pages 3-30.