Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

The program will be divided into the following themes:
a) institutional part
- historiographical categories, periodizations and introduction to the history of law;
- Middle Ages and the age of common law: lex mercatoria and jus mercatorum;
- medieval age: socio-economic context and merchant law;
- the merchant guilds: structure, functions; jurisdictio;
- modern age: socio-economic context;
- the crisis of common law and the accounting doctrine;
- The Mercanzia and the administration of mercantile justice;
- the "consolidations" of the XVIII century;
- the Napoleonic codification; the Napoleonic code of commerce;
- contemporary age: the Italian reality, from the fall of Napoleon to Unity, the sources of commercial law and codification projects;
- from the first commercial code of united Italy (1865) to the code of 1882;
- the civil code of 1942 and the "commercialization" of private law
b) exercises on:
- the corporations between merchants in the medieval and modern age;
- the origins of the insurance contract;
- mercantile justice from the consuls to the commercial courts;
- bankruptcy in the modern age;
- intellectual property from the Serenissima to the twentieth century.