1. The enterprise
1.1. The system of commercial law
1.1.1. Commercial relations and commercial law
1.1.2. Commercial relations of organization and commercial relations of implementation
1.1.3. The historical evolution of commercial law and the legislative unification of 1942
1.1.4. The current system of commercial law
1.1.5. Economic initiative and public control
1.1.6. The European legal system
1.2. The enterprise and the activity of the entrepreneur
1.2.1. The economic enterprise and the entrepreneur
1.2.2. Profiles of legal significance of economic enterprise: enterprise and company
1.2.3. The enterprise as an economic activity and as a professional activity
1.2.4. The enterprise as an organized activity: enterprise and small business
1.2.5. The family business
1.2.6. The enterprise and the profit motive
1.2.7. The “social enterprise”
1.2.8. The agricultural enterprise
1.2.9. The notion of enterprise and the so-called shipping enterprise
1.2.10. Public enterprises
1.3. The status of the entrepreneur
1.3.1. The general statute
1.3.2. Categories of entrepreneurs and special statutes
1.3.3. Acquisition of the status of entrepreneur and termination of the enterprise
1.4. The auxiliaries of the entrepreneur
1.5. The identification of the enterprise
1.5.1. The means of identification of the enterprise
1.5.2. The firm
1.5.3. The sign
1.5.4. The location of the enterprise
1.5.5. The trademark
1.5.6. The merchandising contract
1.6. Competition and consumers
1.6.1. Free competition
1.6.2. The regulation of competition and the market
1.6.3. Unfair competition
1.6.4. Legal and conventional limitations on competition
1.6.5. Misleading and comparative advertising
1.6.6. Unfair business practices
1.7. Consortia between entrepreneurs - Temporary groupings
1.8. The company
2. The collective exercise of the enterprise
2.1. Partnerships
2.2. Corporations
2.3. Transformation, merger and division
2.4. Links between companies and groups
- Cooperative Societies - Temporary Groupings
Hints at The financial market and protection of savers, financial products and the appeal to public savings, financial instruments and investment services, collective asset management, regulated markets and merchandising stock exchange contracts

Recommended text for the study of the institutes covered by the program: Handbook of Business Law, edited by M. Cian, Giappichelli, updated edition. Different textbooks may also be used, according to the student's preference, as long as they are up-to-date and of university level.
In any case, the study of the individual institutes should be supplemented with an examination of the Civil Code and the laws concerned.