Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

Extended Syllabus:
1. Legal framework of the subject: notion, characteristics, sectors of Private international Law (PIL)
1.1 Relations with the other branches of National Law
1.2 Relations with International Law
1.3 Relations with European Union Law

2. Choice of the applicable law
2.1 The various legislative methods for identifying the applicable law
2.2 The "conflict-of-law rules": nature, characteristics and functioning
2.3 Mechanisms of Private International Law. Rules of "renvoi".
2.4 Applicable foreign law: nature and status in the lex fori
2.5 Public order and primacy of fundamental rights

3 The Italian jurisdiction
3.1 National rules and uniform law
3.2 Principle of party autonomy and its limits
3.3 Procedural aspects in PIL
3.4 Immunity from the Italian jurisdiction
3.5 Other methods of arbitration and dispute resolution

4. Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgements
4.1 The principle of "automatism" of EU origin
4.2 The procedure for the recognition of foreign judgements
4.3 Transcription, registration and annotation of foreign judgements in the public registers