Università Roma Tre

PROGRAM
The Course aims at conducting a comparative analysis of some of the key institutions of private law, including contract and tort, and their role in digital markets. By introducing students to the comparative methodology in the study of law, it furthers a better understanding of national law and it aims at developing critical and analytical tools through which students will be able to identify and research relevant issues in the private law of digital markets, through a direct approach to normative, jurisprudential and doctrinal sources of foreign and supranational law.
The following topics will be covered in the course:
-A framework of digital markets and their regulation, beginning with a reconstruction the different phases of the so-called digital revolution (including algorithms, coding, AI, big data, IoT and the blockchain technology);
-An analysis, from a private law perspective, of some of the main business models that have developed in the digital economy (such as digital platforms, smart contracts, digital labor);
-An analysis of selected profiles of contract, property and tort in digital markets, with a special focus on EU and US law.

Details and Syllabus can be found on the E-learning (Moodle Platform) page of the course (https://giurisprudenza.el.uniroma3.it/).


COURSE LEARNING ACTIVITIES
During the course the activities will be divided as follows:
-frontal lectures;
-presentations assigned to students with the scope of supporting the lectures and encouraging interactive student participation;
-case simulations.


ASSESSMENT TOOLS
Student evaluation will be based on class work (class participation, presentations given
during the semester) and on a final written exam.

COURSE MATERIALS
Materials, academic papers and cases for the course will be made available on the E-learning platform (Moodle).

COURSE MATERIALS
Materials, academic papers and cases for the course will be made available on the E-learning platform (Moodle).