DIRITTO PRIVATO DELLE BIOTECNOLOGIE

The course aims to provide the student with a basic knowledge of some fundamental institutions of private law, as well as some issues specifically related to the field of biotechnology (the right to health, self-determination in medical care and experimentation, the rights of the conceived and the medically assisted procreation, patentability of discoveries, marketability and protection against usurpation, medical liability and defective products).

The course will take place through lectures, during which practical cases will also be presented, resolved with the active participation of the students, also through the special constitution of work groups.

The exam will be oral. During the course of lessons, intermediate written tests on practical cases can be carried out.

The exam will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

Relevance of the answers to the questions asked
Quality and understanding of the contents
Ability to connect with other program topics
Ability to report examples
Technical language properties
Overall exhibition capacity of the student

1. Legal norms, interpretation and analogy

2. Private law and public law

3. The sources of law

4. Goods and things

5. The rights of the personality

6. The rights of the conceived, the voluntary interruption of the pregnancy, the medically assisted procreation

7. The property

8. Distinctive signs (trademarks, patents, certifications)

9. The contract (definition, training, essential elements)

10. General principles regarding civil liability

11. Responsibility for dangerous activities, from defective products, medical liability

1. Vincenzo Roppo, Private law, sixth edition, Giappichelli Ed., 2018 or A. Torrente - P. Schlesinger, Manual of private law, XXIV ed., Giuffrè, 2019.

2. Lecture notes that will be made available by the teacher through the Studium platform.

For regulatory feedback, we recommend using an updated civil code.

The workload is about 200 pages.