The course of lectures is about the main issues of criminal liability in Italian legal system

a) Antonio FIORELLA. Le strutture del diritto penale. Questioni fondamentali di parte generale
Torino 2018, isbn 9788892112919


b) Enrico MEZZETTI. Diritto Penale. Dottrina, Casi e Materiali. Bologna 2020. 8808420094



Italian criminal code, latest edition

The program is mainly focused on the following topics: business organization; intellectual property rules; competition law; financing of corporations; corporate governance; director liability.
Consistent with the bachelor program’s mission, some of the classes will analyse the impact of digital assets, decentralized technologies and artificial intelligence on the functioning of corporations.
A detailed syllabus is distributed to the students at the beginning of the course.

G.F. CAMPOBASSO, Manuale di diritto commerciale, Utet, ultima ed., limited to the parts that will be indicated at the beginning of the course.

The criminal trial: comparative models and constitutional principles - Criminal procedural law in space and time.
The procedural subjects: the judge; the public prosecutor; the person under investigation; the defendant; the civil party; the injured party; the civil responsible person; the person civilly liable for the pecuniary penalty - The relations between criminal and civil proceedings.
The criminal procedural act - The types of invalidity: non-existence; nullity; unusability; inadmissibility.
Preliminary investigations.
Precautionary measures.
Precautionary measures.
Defensive investigations.
Preliminary hearing.
Special proceedings: summary judgement; application of the penalty at the request of the parties; proceedings by decree; summary judgement; immediate judgement; suspension of the trial with trial.
General principles of the trial.
Pre-trial proceedings; the right to trial.
The trial phase; the evidentiary procedure; the individual means of evidence; the post-trial phase.
The procedure before the monocratic court.
Proceedings before the Justice of the Peace.
Proceedings concerning administrative offences.
General principles on appeals: individual ordinary and extraordinary means of appeal.
Criminal judgments. Enforcement and supervision.
Jurisdictional relations with foreign authorities.

Reductions in the programme are foreseen for students attending the course and will be agreed with the professor during the course of the lessons.

G. Lozzi, Lineamenti di procedura penale, Giappichelli, last edition.
H. Belluta, M. Gialuz, L. Lupária (eds.), Codice sistematico di procedura penale, Giappichelli, last edition.

The course will address the more general issues concerning administrative activity and administrative organization with a look at new trends in the field, both in the context of European law and with regard to the use of new technologies. A part of the course will be dedicated to a topic of specific interest for the Degree Course, namely the legal protection of animals. More specifically, the following topics will be addressed:


- Public administration and its law;
- the principles of administrative law;
- the administrative organization;
- administrative activity in general;
- subjective juridical situations;
- the administrative procedure;
- the administrative act;
- administrative transparency;
- the simplification of the administrative procedure;
- the legal protection of animals between national and European law.

In relation to administrative law the texts (for both attending and not attendiing students) are:

1. M. D’alberti, Lezioni di diritto amministrativo, Giappichelli, last available edition, except the Chapters dedicated to: personale delle pubbliche amministrazioni, beni pubblici, moduli consensuali; responsabilità della pubblica amministrazione; disfunzioni).
2. M. A. Sandulli, Introduzione. La complessità delle fonti, le tendenze del sistema e il ruolo dei principi nel diritto ammnistrativo, in Principi e regole dell’azione amministrativa, a cura di M.A. Sandulli, Milano, 2023 .

In relation to the legal protection of animals, the texts (for both attending and not attendiing students) are the articles:

M Lottini, Il benessere degli animali e il diritto dell’Unione Europea,

M.Lottini, La tutela degli animali d’affezione tra diritto italiano ed europeo

M. Lottini, La tutela degli animali in Costituzione: riflessioni e prospettive,

M. Lottini, Gli animali selvatici e la loro tutela tra novità normative e antichi problemi

M. Lottini, Gli animali nei circhi: vecchie questioni e prospettive future

M. Lottini, Nuoto in vasca con i delfini nella recente giurisprudenza del giudice amministrativo

T. Formichelli, diritti degli animali: uguaglianza intraspecifica ed uguaglianza interspecifica


The articles and the handout are made available on-line (moodle-e-learning). In case of problems in finding materials, please send an e-mail to Professor Lottini at her institutional address. Other materials for attending students could be made available to foster their knowledge on specific issues during the lectures.