As the course can be attended by students taking different types of exam (see the Section “Altre informazioni"), the textbooks vary slightly. They are the following:
1) FOR STUDENTS OF THE "LAUREA MAGISTRALE" THAT TAKE THE SECOND PART (MODULE B) OF "DIRITTO COMMERCIALE" (FUNDAMENTAL COURSE, 15 CREDITS) WITH PROF. STANGHELLINI:
S. BONFATTI, P.F. CENSONI, Lineamenti di diritto fallimentare, Cedam, Padova, 2013, pages from 1 to 270 and from 331 to 338;
or
L. GUGLIELMUCCI, Diritto fallimentare, Giappichelli, 7th edition, Turin, 2015, with the exceptions of Section I of Chapter VII ("Accertamento del passivo e dei diritti reali e personali di terzi"), to be substituted with handouts available on the course web page, and of Chapters XIII and XIV ("La liquidazione coatta amministrativa" and "L'amministrazione straordinaria delle grandi imprese insolventi");
2) FOR STUDENTS OF THE "LAUREA MAGISTRALE" THAT, HAVING TAKEN "DIRITTO COMMERCIALE" (FUNDAMENTAL COURSE, 15 CREDITS) WITH A DIFFERENT PROFESSOR (AND THEREFORE WITH THE MODULE B ON A PROGRAM OTHER THAN BANKRUPTCY LAW), ARE TAKING THE COURSE AS "DIRITTO FALLIMENTARE" (OPTIONAL COURSE, 6 CREDITS):
S. BONFATTI, P.F. CENSONI, Lineamenti di diritto fallimentare, Cedam, Padova, 2013, pages from 1 to 270 and from 331 to 338;
or
L. GUGLIELMUCCI, Diritto fallimentare, Giappichelli, 7th edition, Turin, 2015, with the exception of Chapters XIII and XIV ("La liquidazione coatta amministrativa" and "L'amministrazione straordinaria delle grandi imprese insolventi"). Please note that students that take the exam as "Diritto fallimentare", optional course (6 credits), must study also Section I of Chapter VII ("Accertamento del passivo e dei diritti reali e personali di terzi");
3) FOR STUDENTS OF THE "LAUREA IN SCIENZE DEI SERVIZI GIURIDICI" THAT TAKE THE COURSE AS "DIRITTO COMMERCIALE II":
S. BONFATTI, P.F. CENSONI, Lineamenti di diritto fallimentare, Cedam, Padova, 2013, pages from 1 to 270 and from 331 to 338;
or
L. GUGLIELMUCCI, Diritto fallimentare, Giappichelli, 7th edition, Turin, 2015, with the exceptions of Section I of Chapter VII ("Accertamento del passivo e dei diritti reali e personali di terzi"), to be substituted with handouts available on the course web page, and of Chapters XIII and XIV ("La liquidazione coatta amministrativa" and "L'amministrazione straordinaria delle grandi imprese insolventi").
Learning Objectives - Last names E-N
Knowledge
Knowledge of the rules on debtor's financial distress and insolvency and of the legal techniques available to solve it.
Skills
Acquisition of the basic education on bankruptcy law. Acquisition of the capacity to analyse issues of bankruptcy law. Refinement of the capacity to discuss and argue different solutions for the same issue.
Ability
Critical understanding of bankruptcy law as an integral part of business organization law and of the rules concerning corporate finance. Ability to solve real cases in a critical manner, using knowledge acquired through study of Civil law and Commercial law.
Prerequisites - Last names E-N
To be admitted to the examination students will have to have passed:
- Diritto privato (Private law);
- Diritto costituzionale generale (Constitutional law).
Study of general Commercial law (entrepreneur and companies) is advised.
Teaching Methods - Last names E-N
48 hours of class. The course will be partly done with class discussion of issues of Bankruptcy law arising from recent cases.
Further information - Last names E-N
THE MODULE B OF COMMERCIAL LAW OF THE “LAUREA MAGISTRALE” (15 credits in total) taught by Prof. Stanghellini on Bankruptcy Law can be taken as an autonomous exam of 6 credits, as follows:
- Diritto fallimentare, optional exam for the students of the Laurea Magistrale that have taken Commercial Law with a different professor (and therefore with the Module B on a different program);
- Diritto commerciale II, mandatory exam for the students of the Laurea in Scienze dei Servizi giuridici, curriculum “Consulente del lavoro e delle relazioni industriali”.
Textbooks vary slightly in the three cases: see the Section "Testi di riferimento".
Type of Assessment - Last names E-N
The examination will be oral.
During the examination candidates will have to show ability to find and discuss the relevant rules for the matter (primarily, the Civil Code), that they will be allowed to read.
It is also necessary to show ability to master the general rules of Private law on which Bankruptcy law is based.
Course program - Last names E-N
Analysis of the restructuring procedure (concordato preventivo) and the liquidation procedure (fallimento) provided for by Italian bankruptcy law (R.D. 16 March 1942, No. 267, as recently reformed). Elements of the insolvency procedures introduced by the Law 27 gennaio 2012, No. 3, for debtors that are not commercial entrepreneurs. Analysis of the rules concerning out-of-court agreements between the debtor and its creditors. Economic justification for insolvency law.