Phd in Comparative and Uniform Commercial Law - IUS/02

The PhD in Comparative and Uniform Commercial Law presents innovative aspects and a qualified openness towards relationships with foreign institutions. Candidates are asked to develop individual researches on the basis of a study programme which involves as main sectors: private comparative law and its several articulations (analysis of: the comparative method, the fundamental legal traditions, the specific jurisdictions and the legal institutes); EC private law; uniform law deriving from international conventions; law arising from international contractual practises (c.d. lex mercatoria). The curriculum involves also economic and organizational studies in order to obtain the best knowledge of the legal meaning of such issues. Students are expected to investigate on those topics which come up from the actual experience of commercial law: firms and corporations, competition and market law, business to business contracts, credit and financial instruments, bankruptcy proceedings. Likewise, it is taken into account the actual evolution of the economic activities on behalf of the public sector and, therefore, of the market discipline as well as the relationships between firms and between professionals and consumers. Studies and researches of the PhD programme must deal with experiences and documentations of foreign institutions. Indeed, the PhD course is carried out through the cooperation with the institutes of the Paris I Pantheòn Sorbonne University (in particular with its Ladef Laboratorie de droit de affaires) and of the Louvain La Neuve University with which, moreover, La Sapienza University is already tight in force of an agreement concerning first degree courses. Specific initiatives involving additional foreign institutions are constantly taken into consideration.

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