Course Topics
• General notions on contract law and terminology • Commercial contracts • Law on Entrepreneurs, including the functioning of the company register • Firms (azienda) and the transfer of the firm • Company contract: distinctive features • Law on partnerships • Law on Sport Companies and Benefit Corporation • Joint-stock company law • Limited Liability Company Law • Law on innovative start-ups • Accounting and Balance Sheets • Fundamental Changes: Amendments to the articles of incorporation and bylaws • Dissolution and winding up of companies • Co-operative Law

Teaching format
Frontal lectures with interaction/discussion.

Educational objectives
Knowledge and understanding LAW sources of public law and their effectiveness in the domestic and European Union context concept of the State and distribution of competences at horizontal and vertical level, as well as in a European perspective role of the European Union in the Italian public and commercial legal order fundamental institutes of the public legal system also with reference to economic studies Italian Constitution with reference to the form of government, including regions and other territorial entities, and the rights of citizens and businesses Italian tourism law, also with reference to the European Union law tourism regulations of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen Italian sports law, also in relation to European and international law sources of commercial law notion of enterprise and company legislation concerning corporations, consortia and cooperatives. actors of commercial law (primarily consumers and companies) operating in the tourism, sports and events sector notion and regulation of the entrepreneur, with reference to both general statutes and special rules applicable to specific categories of enterprises (e.g. sports companies). Functioning of partnerships and corporations Interpretation of the sources of law, in particular the sources of tourism and sport, in the European, national and regional contexts. "Ability to apply knowledge and understanding " LAW the effectiveness of legal institutions and their effects the organisational structure of public institutions and their legitimacy the constitutional principles on which the Italian legal system is based and its evaluation in relation to the European Union system the legal institutions of commercial law and their effects the critical evaluation of processes and dynamics in small, medium and large enterprises, considering, when possible, those active in the tourism and sports sectors real cases arising in the judicial application of rules legal institutions specific to the entrepreneur and European, state and provincial legal sources the regulation of the relationship between public and private subjects the disciplines of the sector as well as the ability to critically evaluate their impact. Autonomy of judgement finding the necessary additional information in databases, regulatory sources and scientific bibliography; Communication skills The achievement of this objective will be assessed by means of written examinations, individual and group assignments as well as the final dissertation. Learning skills Ability to retrieve and make use of information from databases, research studies, laws, regulations and standards that are applied in professional life;

Assessment
Written exam (mid-term exam available)

Evaluation criteria
The exam is evaluated as follows: • 3 open questions to be chosen from 5 questions available (max 24/30): each answer gets 0 to 8 points • case (max 6/30): the solution gets 0 to 6 points