Course detail

Law in Business Relations

FAST-NVB062Acad. year: 2022/2023

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, 3 types of syndicates. Co-partners, basic capital, partnership contracts and foundation documents. Non-mandatory and mandatory enactment. Particular contractual nominated types, 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

Mgr. Richard Bartes, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Basic knowledge interrelated with business law and their interpretation and application on corporate environment.

Prerequisites

Common law knowledge from secondary school is required.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

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

BASKIND, Eric, OSBORNE, Greg and Lee ROACH. Commercial Law. 3rd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 832 s. ISBN 9780198825975. (EN)
MAREK, Karel, LIŠKA, Petr a Martin JANKŮ. Obchodní závazky. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2021, 516 s. ISBN 978-80-7676-123-0. (CS)
POKORNÁ, Jarmila, LASÁK, Jan a Josef KOTÁSEK. Obchodní společnosti a družstva. 2. vyd. Praha: C.H.Beck, 2022, 520 s. ISBN 978-80-7400-867-2. (CS)

Recommended reading

BERAN, Karel, ČECH, Petr, DVOŘÁK, Bohumil, ELISCHER, David, HRÁDEK, Jiří, JANEČEK, Václav, KÜHN, Zdeněk, NOVOTNÁ KRTOUŠOVÁ, Lucie a Pavel ONDŘEJEK. Právní jednání a odpovědnost právnických osob po rekodifikaci českého a soukromého práva. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2018, 296 s. ISBN 978-80-7598-044-1. (CS)
ČERNÁ, Stanislava, ŠTENGLOVÁ, Ivana a Irena PELIKÁNOVÁ. Právo obchodních korporací. 2. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2021, 656 s. ISBN 978-80-7598-991-8.  (CS)
MCGAUGHEY, Ewan. Principles of Enterprise Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 814 s. ISBN 9781009045735. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPC-GK Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Richard Bartes, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Business.

2. Entrepreneur.

3. Commercial companies.

4. Cooperative.

5. Comparison of commercial companies and cooperatives.

6. Forms of commercial companies and cooperatives.

7. Acting partners of commercial companies and cooperatives.

8. Organs of commercial companies and cooperatives.

9. Types and forms of stocks outcoming by joint-stock company.

10. Commercial register.

11. Contractual relations.

12. Particulars of the most commonly used types of contracts.

13. Business court.