Università Roma Tre

The course on banking and insurance law is structured with frontal lectures. It aims to provide basic knowledge of financial systems with a particular focus on banks, other financial intermediaries, and insurance, within the perspective of economic law. It will analyze national and European regulations in their essential aspects and with particular attention to the system of sources. Topics of the course include the European banking system, the notion of a bank and banking activities, other financial intermediaries, rules governing banking supervision, and the bank-client relationship (contracts, transparency, consumer credit, ADR). The insurance law module focuses on national and European insurance regulations, analyzing essential rules and principles. The lectures concentrate on insurance companies, the distribution of insurance products, insurance contracts in general, and contracts related to life and non-life insurance (including mixed banking-insurance products).

The reference texts, which will be accompanied by appropriate educational materials provided during the lessons (slides, commercial and informative documents, administrative and jurisprudential measures), are:

BONTEMPI Banking and Financial Law, Giuffré, latest edition.
DONATI and VOLPE PUTZOLU, Insurance Law Manual, Giuffré.