Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

The Programme is composed of two modules.
First Module (40 hours) : analysis of the nature, goals and functions of the comparative methodology, legal families and legal systems, competition and circulation of legal models. Main features of the legal systems belonging to the western legal tradition, that is France and Germany (as for the civil law systems); United Kingdom and United States, as for the common law systems. The following topics shall be faced: historical origins of the two opposite legal systems; administration of justice; legal method and precedent; the sources of the law; codification; the role of judges.
Second Module (20 hours): Contract in civil law and common law systems; European contract law: historical origins of the cause of actions, formation, contents, legal effects, third parties’ rights, contractual liability, frustration and breach.