The course aims to:
-provide an overview on the main categories and features of legal systems in a comparative perspective;
-develop the ability to apply the knowledge of legal systems in order to determine convergences and divergences between the relevant characteristics;
-facilitate the understanding of the differences between legal systems in the context of the analysis of cases studies;
-develop proper communicating skills and abilities to illustrate convergences and differences among legal systems in a comparative perspective;
-to explore matters of public interest by applying the categories and notions of comparative law