The course aims to provide students with an overview of insolvency-related issues. In particular, after an introduction to the fundamentals and regulations of insolvency law, the programme will focus on the discipline of bankruptcy. In addition, composition agreements and negotiated solutions to the crisis will be addressed.
The expected learning outcomes, at the end of the course, consist of the following:
- regarding knowledge and understanding, the student should be able not only to gain detailed knowledge and understanding of the Italian discipline of insolvency procedures, but also to elaborate and/or make judgements, even in a research context;
- regarding the ability to apply knowledge and understanding, the student should be able, not only to analyze the relevant legal notions and identify the applicable regulation, according to the law and its reasoning, but also to solve interdisciplinary problems, even in terms of enforcement;
- regarding the independence of judgment, the student should be able not only to identify and autonomously interpret bankruptcy law rules, but also to combine knowledge and handle its complexity, being able to make judgments despite incomplete data;
- regarding communication skills, the student should be able to convey and present his or her acquired knowledge and opinions, as well as their underlying ratios, to both skilled and non-specialist audiences;
- regarding the learning capacity, the student should have demonstrated his or her skills in dealing with the study of the relevant topic independently.