Università Roma Tre

The course of Private Law Institutions is aimed at allowing students to learn the fundamental notions of private law understood as that complex of rules that govern the intersubjective relationships between the individual members in their patrimonial sphere but also personal and family. Particular attention will be paid to the right of people - physical and legal - to which the system recognizes the quality of subjects of law, that is, holders of active and passive legal situations. Family law will also be studied in depth, consisting of a set of legal rules that concern not only the traditional family based on the marriage of a heterosexual couple, but also civil unions between persons of the same sex and de facto cohabitation, recently debated reforms. The law of succession will also be addressed, whose provisions are aimed at regulating the personal and patrimonial relations of the individual after death, and the subject of real rights, that is rights over things, with particular reference to the ways of purchasing and of transfer of the right of ownership between the living, as well as the real rights of enjoyment, possession and usucation. A special look will also be given to the general regulation of obligations and the contract and to the main rules on individual contracts and other sources of obligations. Finally, the delicate issue of civil liability will be addressed, the complex of illicit facts which will result in a compensation obligation for those who have caused unjust damage.

MAZZAMUTO (edited by), Manual of private law, last edition (Giappichelli)


It is essential to consult an edition of the civil code. It's recommended: CODICE CIVILE per la didattica e lo studio a cura di R. Pucella, Giappichelli