The course aims to position students to have a complete understanding of the new regulations:
a) of public contracts, geared towards efficiency, simplification, digitalisation, acceleration of procedures, and guarantees for administrations and economic operators, as set out in Legislative Decree 36/2023. This will be achieved through the analysis of a Code that is structured in a completely new way compared to the previous Legislative Decree 50/2016 and is now "self-executing," with a central body of rules to which a plurality of annexes are added, absorbing the regulations and guidelines previously in force;
b) of local public services of economic importance, whose new regulations (Legislative Decree 201/2022), born in the context of the NRP (National Recovery and Resilience Plan), aim to overcome the fragmentary nature of the previous regulatory framework by outlining a clear and stable set of rules capable of ensuring efficient use of public resources, placing the interests of users at the center, with the hope of profoundly impacting their quality of life and the development of the territories.
Through the course, students' learning and reasoning skills will be developed and stimulated by guiding them through the analysis of individual institutes:
- both of the Contracts Code, from the awarding phase to the planning, programming, and design phase, as well as to execution, through the analysis of institutional documents, the forms produced by ANAC, and case law;
- of Legislative Decree 201/2022, through an approach that combines theoretical reconstruction with examination of practical cases and best practices.
In addition, the course aims to train students' ability to use technical language accurately and to orient themselves in the analysis of legislation and case law, correctly employing the conceptual distinctions of the institutions and models that will be analyzed.
To this end, project work will be carried out during the course, and students will be engaged in exercises on institutional documentation, judgments, and application cases, conducting in-depth studies in the classroom, also in the form of debates, with the aim of developing students' ability to manage projects, discuss, and compare specific cases.
The course also aims to develop students' autonomy of judgment, so that by the end, they will be able to independently understand and interpret the main issues relating to the application of legislation.
