Obiettivi (versione inglese ): The PhD course in PRIVATE AUTONOMY BUSINESS, WORK AND PROTECTION OF RIGHTS IN EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE is articulated in six curricula: LABOUR LAW IUS/07 The PhD course in Labour law wants realizes these formative aims: individual specialist researches about labour relation, trade union right and social security with a particular attention to the analysis of the law in force and to the consideration of the law evolution and of the comparatistic topics. The doctorate program includes periodic testes of the realized objects to make easier the doctors research work, organization of specialist meetings on the chosen topics with also the support of professors. TAX LAW IUS/12 The tax law is carrying into the principle of transparency, impartiality, effectivity and efficiency. The regulation of the assessment and collection activity is already oriented to the a authoritative prospective in the relation with private-taxpayers. The auspicated parity conditions between administration and taxpayers is still far but the new legislation, among the Statute of the Tax Payer, make a different behaviour of these relations impressed to the a major collaboration. So it’s interesting don’t forgetting the interests of the administration activity in this sphere and the peculiarity of the fiscal function. COMMERCIAL, COMPANY, FINANCIAL AND COMPETITION LAW IUS/04 IUS/05 The three years long PhD course aims at training the candidates to the doctor’s degree to scientific research on issues and matters included in the area of Business and Commercial Law, namely: (i) the Law of Business Enterprises, including Company Law, Commercial Contracts Law, Intellectual Property Law, Competition Law; Law of Groups of Companies;(ii) the Law of Public Supervision on Enterprises; (iii) Banking and Insurance Law;(iv) Securities Regulation and Financial Markets’ Law. Doctoral candidates are required to devote themselves to the scientific research on one or more of those issues according to the arrangement with the “doctoral college of teachers” and to complete, within three years, an original scientific work (the ‘doctoral thesis’). A great attention is given to training on classical legal thought, updating of the training through the reading of more recent works, which have made significant contributions in terms of the method of scientific inquiry, the development of ideas, the comparison with the debates in the international arena. The PhD students are also invited to practice the comparative method and encouraged to spend periods of study abroad at universities or academic institutions with which the PhD teachers have contacts. COMPARATIVE PRIVATE LAW IUS/02. The PhD in Comparative private 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 practices (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. CIVIL LAW AND HISTORY OF EUROPEAN LAW IUS/01 - IUS/19 The purpose is to prepare PhD candidates for scientific research about themes and subjects of the two scientific areas (Civil Law and European History Law). i) European private law, which, in XIX century and in the first half of the XX century, has been a law incorporated in the main codes and, in the second half of XX century, has been more and more influenced by the Anglo-Saxon common law system. ii) European private law is also studied in its historical roots. The main topics are: Intellectual Property; the interpretation of the law and of contracts; the trading, the contract resolution; the contracts based on “fiducia” (trust), medical liability and damages; business to business contracts; tort and contract. iii) Fundamental Rights, and their improvement according to the European system. iiii) The influence of European Union politics in domestic law systems. CIVIL PROCEDURE LAW IUS/15 Doctorate in civil procedure deals with all the fundamental themes of the matter: declaratory judgment, enforcement proceedings, interim injunctions, voluntary jurisdiction, arbitration, bankruptcy proceedings. Other subjects of the course are: general theory of legal process, administration of justice, private international law, comparative civil procedure, EU civil procedure.