Legal Studies

This course offers an introduction to the issues legal counsel encounter in connection with resolving international business disputes under U.S. law. The course uses lectures and interactive class discussions based on primary sources, including statutory and case law materials that the instructor provides, as well as hypothetical scenarios involving a German manufacturer confronting a variety of legal issues in connection with the distribution of its products into the U.S. market. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. This course examines: the conceptual and theoretical foundations of cybercrime research; the cutting edge empirical research on cybercrimes; the main tools and practices related to the prevention and countering of cybercrimes, and to their harm mitigation; the social challenges and implications of digitalization and datafication in the context of cybercrime research and investigations; and develops an approach to cybercrimes that recognizes the cross-disciplinary nature of the area. The course discusses topics including approaching and researching crime in cyberspace; crimes against devices; crime against persons; crimes of deception and coercion; intellectual property infringement; market-based crimes; political offences; cyberterrorism and radicalization; information pollution; disrupting and preventing cybercrimes; crimes of the present, crimes of the future; and researching crime in cyberspace.

This seminar studies the law of property focusing on several sub-areas, such as changes in real estates rights, registration of rights in real estates, ownership, easements, and other proprietary rights. 

Topics in this course include an overview of the early Irish legal system (Brehon law), the structure of early Irish society and its institutions – in particular: the early Irish system of law enforcement in the absence of a centralized state and associated police force; the status of women in early Irish society, including marriage arrangements; Irish family structures; an overview of farming and food in early Ireland, and the nature and background of Irish "sacral" kingship and the concept of truth.

This course offers a study of alternative mechanisms for dispute resolution. Topics include: conflict and management; alternative methods for conflict resolution; negotiation; mediation; arbitration; alternative methods of dispute resolution in free trade agreements.

This course examines several of the most important issues of international legal theory and the philosophical approaches to international law. 

The course's main objective is to allow the student to acquire a panoramic view of different legal systems, enriching the notion of law and demonstrating that the ways of conceiving and solving legal problems vary throughout the different legal systems, which allows visualizing the contingent nature of law and its understanding as a social and changing phenomenon. The study of Comparative Law, together with the habits of research and reading of various materials, prepares the student for a better understanding of the legal culture and legal systems of other countries. Consequently, it facilitates study abroad and international legal practice.

This course offers a comparative study of the institutional law of international organizations. While it is acknowledged that each organization has its own legal structure and functioning, institutional challenges and rules of different organizations resemble each other in some way, and a great deal of body of institutional rules and principles has been developed. International organizations have much in common, such as the law on membership, competence, structures, decision-making and implementation, financing, and legal personality. The course discusses the practice of a number of international organizations, including the United Nations and regional as well as subregional organizations. The course explores the law, life, and functioning of these organizations.

This course examines the interactions between aesthetics, art theory, and art law. It discusses legal notions of originality, authorship, plagiarism, copying, and transformation. Contemporary art case studies include: Marina Abramović, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Prince, and Joseph Beuys. 

The course aims to acquire skills in the management of the fundamental contents of Public International Law in Spanish. It develops the main topics of this matter, such as concept, international treaties and other sources, subjects of international law -especially the State in the international legal order and international organizations (United Nations Organization)-, law of the sea, human rights, the the international responsibility of the State and the individual, the use of force in international law and humanitarian law, among others.