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. Second Module (20 hours): Contract: historical origins of the cause of actions, formation, contents, legal effects, third parties’ rights, contractual liability, frustration and breach