Frontal lectures and presentations by students. The course will mix two main instruction methods, i.e., frontal lectures varied with students’ presentations by students on topics selected at the beginning of the course. The presentations by students will be part of the final grade, so students will build up their final grades thanks to their active participation and engagement during the course.
Contents
In the first part, the course will start paving the conceptual premises of the topic, i.e., by laying the economic and legal foundations of EU competition law. Secondly, the key concepts of Art. 101 TFEU will be analyzed and contextualized. Third, the course will examine the possibilities for cooperation under Art. 101 and the discipline of merger control, including Regulation No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (the EC Merger Regulation). In the second part, the course will focus on the regulatory answers to the recent challenge posed by the digitalization and the artificial intelligence. In the third part, the course – after a premise concerning the intellectual property rights and their relevance - will focus on transnational challenges caused by the interplay between the intellectual property rights and the artificial intelligence as well as on the transnational business litigation with specific reference to the field of patents.
