The main targets of the course is: to allow students to acquire an exhaustive knowledge of the structure of the various insolvency procedures; to deepen the procedural aspects of greatest interest; to conduct an articulated investigation on the most current issues and on the first application profiles of the Crisis and Insolvency Code without losing sight of the structure of the Bankruptcy Law that represents its historical antecedent.

The nature and characteristics of insolvency proceedings in their historical evolution, from the Bankruptcy Law to the Crisis and Insolvency Code. The procedures regulated in the Bankruptcy Law and the new insolvency proceedings, from the duties of timely emergence of the crisis to the negotiating instruments regulating it, with specific attention to insolvency proceedings as well as those of over-indebtedness. Notes on the composition of the company’s crisis and the winding-up proceedings.

Civil Procedure 

The aim of the course is to train students to integrate professional figures able to manage the business crisis through an in-depth knowledge of the paths and tools prepared to deal with it, acquiring a know-how that allows them to identify the assumptions, effects and purposes of the procedures provided from the crisis and insolvency code.

The student who passed the exam must possess:

- a general knowledge and a good understanding of procedural law in general and insolvency proceedings;

- an in-depth knowledge of the institutions that regulate the various insolvency procedures provided from Italian and Community law;

- a general knowledge of the insolvency institutions provided by the Common Law;

- a concrete ability to develop legal documents related to insolvency proceedings.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Seminars and practical insights also agreed with Professionals and Magistrates.

Teaching

Lectures and classroom exercises; working groups and production of  written reports; participation in hearings; insights with Magistrates, Lawyers and Accountants.

Attendance

Students will be able to take the exam on the specific topics of the program and deepen them through the composition of a short report.

Course books

As the course focuses on the new law of the insolvency crisis, including the structure of the Bankruptcy Law that represents its historical antecedent, the suggested textbooks are:

1)    – L. Guglielmucci, Lezioni di diritto fallimentare, Giappichelli, Torino, last edition (for the issues concerning the Bankruptcy Law - An introductory part, from caphter I throught caphter VI).

2)   – G. D’Attorre, Manuale di diritto della crisi e dell’insolvenza, Giappichelli, Torino, last edition (for those issues that concern the reform law - An introductory part, from caphter I throught caphter IV, and brief overview of nature, purposes and types of procediment indroducted by the Code of corporate crisis and insolvency).

We advise students to get a civil code complete with complementary laws and a code of civil procedure.

Assessment

Oral exam includes the preparation of a thesis written by students on topics agreed with the teacher.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

It is advisable for non-attending students to take the exam on specific topics and to deepen them with a brief written paper on topics agreed with the teacher.

Course books

It is advisable for non-attending students to use the texts indicated above and the material on the Blended platform.

Assessment

The evaluation of non-attending students is based on the same contents of the students attending, with the only difference that, if they have not agreed with the teacher the production of brief written paper, they will be evaluated on the basis of the only knowledge of the most important profiles of the program.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

CURRICULUM VITAE OF LECTURER

Marco Cassiani was born in Pesaro, 9 May 1957, where he attended the classic high school and graduated with a statement of praise in 1981 at the Faculty of Law, University of Urbino, with a dissertation on Civil Procedure - to which was supervised by Prof. Corrado Ferri – on the subject: "Amendments to the complaint in the first-instance proceedings".

Qualified as a teacher of Legislation and Economics, from 1981 he began collaborating with the Institute of Private Law and Civil Procedure (afterwards Institute of Procedural Law) of the Faculty of Law of the University of Urbino, where he is now Tenured Researcher of Civil Procedure since 1987, and Adjunct Professor of Bankruptcy Law since 1993.

Attorney, since 1998 he has been admitted to the Superior Courts.

Besides the normal teaching and research, Marco Cassiani participates, as a member designated by the Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research (MURST), to the Judging Committees for the recruitment of university researchers, and is also a member of the National Association of the Scholars of Civil Procedure.

He was also nominated by the Supreme Concil of Judicature as a member of the Examination Board for the recruitment of the judiciary in 2004.

Speaker at various conferences, he published articles and monographs, including: “In tema di conciliazione di controversie agrarie” (1982); “Una singolare esperienza in tema di contenzioso agrario” (1985); “La tutela cautelare nel sequestro giudiziario” (1990); “Il procedimento di nomina del Giudice di Pace” (1994); “L’omologa del concordato fallimentare e la dichiarazione tardiva di credito” (1994); “Sull’ammissibilità della dichiarazione ex art. 101 L. Fall. dopo l’omologa del concordato fallimentare” (1995); “Il ricorso per Cassazione per omessa, insufficiente o contraddittoria motivazione e la revocazione per travisamento dei fatti, tra vizio logico-giuridico del ragionamento ed erronea valutazione del fatto non controverso” (1997); “Riflessioni sull’idoneità del decreto di ingiunzione a formare il giudicato in senso sostanziale e sull’ambito di estensione dell’accertamento in esso contenuto” (1998); “Modalità delle vendite fallimentari – Le vendite immobiliari” (1999); “La disposizione contenuta nell'art. 285 c.p.c., che prevede la notifica della sentenza su istanza di parte ai fini della decorrenza del termine breve per impugnare…” (2001); “La vendita forzata nel concordato preventivo per cessione” (2002); “Riflessioni sull’art. 43 della Legge Fallimentare e sulla precaria legittimazione processuale del fallito” (2002); “Il nuovo procedimento cautelare” (2003); "L'Amministrazione Straordinaria: le radici comunitarie della riforma ed i suoi primi sviluppi applicativi" (2003); "Profili dell'istituto dell'esdebitazione (2012); "Problematiche attuali in tema di liquidazione dell'attivo fallimentare (2012); “Giurisdizione esecutiva verso lo straniero: il caso del pignoramento presso terzi” (2018); “Il pignoramento di crediti di debitori esteri e l’art. 26 bis c.p.c.” (2018); “Spunti per una riforma sostenibile – e “a costo zero” - del processo civile” (2019); “Il risveglio della colpa” (2020).