Course detail

Law in Business Relations

FAST-HV53Acad. year: 2013/2014

Overview of commercial code, its fundamentals. Parallel of commercial and civil law. Basic enactment of commercial code. Firm and business assets, business name, business secrets, companies register. Business competition and unfair competition. Commercial companies and syndicates, their establishment, changes and disposal. Co-partnership company, commandite company, limited liability company, joint-stock company, 4 types of syndicates. Co-partners, basic capital, partnership contracts and foundation documents. Business commitments relations, comparison with civil commitments relations. Non-mandatory and mandatory enactment. Particular contractual nominated types from commercial code, their creation in practice, standard contracts and their use. Securing commitments.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Mgr. Dagmar Hrabincová

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

After successful completion of the course, students will be able:
• to orientate in branch of law which regulates business relations
• to assessment the differences among forms of commercial companies and cooperatives inclusive their risks during making business
• to use information in business obtained from Commercial Register
• to distinguish and apply legal regulations for each types of contractual relations
• to individually analyze the law case and use the right legal regulation

Prerequisites

Common law knowledge from secondary school is required.

Co-requisites

Basic law knowledge in range of secondary education is assumed and no deeper expert knowledge

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through practical classes and self-study assignments. Attendance at practical classes is compulsory.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Attendance and active participation in seminars inclusive the presentation of set themes.

Course curriculum

1. Object, content, subjects of commercial legal enactment
2.-3. Rights and duties of business subjects used by commercial code
4.-5. Establishment, origin, ending and disposal of commercial companies and syndicates
6. Basic signs of commercial companies and syndicates
7. Position of co-partners, their rights and duties
8.-9. Contracts for inner and outer relations of commercial company
10. Securities emitted by join-stock company
11. Amalgamation and form changes of commercial companies and syndicates
12. Most frequent contractual types
13. Contracts for share on business. Position, function and importance of commerce court

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To expand law knowledge by knowledge related to business and commercial engagement relations including legal forms of capital and personal companies.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BEJČEK, Josef a kol.: Kurs obchodního práva obchodní závazky. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7400-337-0. (CS)
DAVIDSON, Daniel: Business law principles and cases in the legal environment. Mason, Ohio: Thomson/South-Western/West, 2004. ISBN 0324153635. (EN)
KOTÁSEK, Josef a kol.: Kurs obchodního práva. Právo cenných papírů. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7179-454-7. (CS)
MAREK, Karel: Smluvní obchodní právo: kontrakty . Brno: Masarykova universita , 2008. ISBN 978-80-201-4619-1. (CS)
PELIKÁNOVÁ, Irena: Obchodní společnosti. Praha: ASPI, 2006. ISBN 978-80-735-7149-8. (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-P-C-GK Master's

    branch G , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch GD , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Mgr. Dagmar Hrabincová

Syllabus

1st Business
2nd Entrepreneur
3rd Commercial companies
4th Cooperative
5th Comparison of commercial companies and cooperatives
6th Forms of commercial companies and cooperatives
7th Acting partners of commercial companies and cooperatives
8th Organs of commercial companies and cooperatives
9th Types and forms of stocks outcoming by joint-stock company
10th Commercial register
11th Contractual relations
12th Particulars of the most commonly used types of contracts
13rd Business court