LA204ZK Commercial Law for Public Administration

Faculty of Law
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. JUDr. Josef Bejček, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Josef Kotásek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Jaromír Kožiak, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Robert Neruda, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Dana Ondrejová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. Jarmila Pokorná, CSc. (lecturer)
JUDr. David Raus, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Ing. Josef Šilhán, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Josef Bejček, CSc.
Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Bc. Alžběta Rašková
Supplier department: Faculty of Law
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
* COMMERCIAL LAW FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION:
  • This module is supposed to guide the participants to understand essential concepts of Commercial Law in its broad sense. Special attention will be devoted to the commercial law aspects of public law entities and their involving into entrepreneur activities. The problems of creating corporate will in the public entities and practical ways of its manifestation will be underlined (commercial legal act on behalf of a municipality, region, or other public law entity and conditions of its binding effect).
  • Basic features of commercial obligations will be part of the education, i.e. closing contracts, security, performance, liability.

    The participants will be able to understand the substance of the contract law and of ways how to close a contract and what are the legal consequences thereof.
  • Special attention will be given to so called public law contracts and to their comparison with private law agreements.
  • Teaching will not be restricted only to conveying isolated facts in individual sub-disciplines but it will result in understanding mutual interdependences and mastering essential skills for practical application of the knowledge acquired in particular decision-making situations (practising model situations, solving case studies, etc.).
  • Public procurement regulation will be discussed and solving of practical problems and possibilities how to avoid violation of the law will be offered.
  • The very basics of competition law will be presented as well, and the role of municipalities, regions and other public law entities in protection of competition (both unfair competition and antitrust law) will be made clear.
    • Syllabus
    • * COMMERCIAL LAW FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: The module addresses the basics of following topics:
    • Business entities. Classification of business entities and differences among them (economic, organizational and legal). Appropriateness of individual forms from the different points of view. General regulation of business associations.
    • Individual kinds of business companies and associations. Basic characteristic features of personal and stock corporations. Internal relations in business companies. Municipalities, regions and other public law entities as members of a business company.
    • Law of contract. The art of contracting. Who can make a contract. Types of contractors. Organization of contracting, psychological equipment of a contractor. Pre-contracting negotiations between partners. Security, performance, liability. Municipalities, regions and other public law entities as a part to commercial agreements. Coordination a subordination public law contracts and their comparison with private law contracts.
    • Types of contracts and innominate contracts. How to find out or choose an appropriate type of a contract. Advantages and risks of contracting by means of an innominate contract. Making business contracts and public tenders.
    • Competitive behaviour. Business name and its protection. General clause for unfair competition. How to avoid unfair competition practices. The kinds and practical possibilities of protection against the unfair commercial practices.
    • Antitrust law. Agreements distorting competition – essence, types, identification. How to avoid abuse of dominant position on the market. Economic dependence and possibilities of law for its regulation, abuse of buyer power. Mergers and acquisitions of entrepreneurial entities and its competition law regulation.
    • Public procurement and public subsidies. Nature of public procurement. The way of assigning. Supervision over public procurement. Basics of legal regulation for public subsidies. European context in public procurement and public subsidies.
    Literature
      recommended literature
    • MAREK, Karel. Smluvní obchodní právo, kontrakty (A contractual commercial law). 4., aktualiz. a rozšíř. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2008, 477 pp. Spisy PrF MU. Řada teoretická ; Svazek 326. ISBN 978-80-210-4619-1. info
    • ELIÁŠ, Karel, Petr HAJN and Josef BEJČEK. Kurs obchodního práva : obecná část : soutěžní právo (Course on commercial law : general part : competition law.). / Karel Eliáš ... [et al.]. 5. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2007, 610 pp. (Právnické učebnice). ISBN 978-80-7179-583-4. info
    • BEJČEK, Josef, Karel ELIÁŠ, Přemysl RABAN and Karel MAREK. Kurs obchodního práva : obchodní závazky. / Josef Bejček, Karel Eliáš, Přemysl Raban a kolektiv. 4. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2007, l, 535 s. (Právnické učebnice). ISBN 80-7179-781-4. info
    • ELIÁŠ, Karel, Miroslava BARTOŠÍKOVÁ and Jarmila POKORNÁ. Kurs obchodního práva. Právnické osoby jako podnikatelé. / Karel Eliáš, Miroslava Bartošíková, Jarmila Pokorná a kolektiv. 5. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2005, xxxvi, 617. ISBN 8071793914. info
    • HAJN, Petr and Josef BEJČEK. Jak uzavírat obchodní smlouvy. 2. vyd. Praha: Linde, 2003, 284 s. ISBN 8072014153. info
    Teaching methods
    Range of Modes of Contacts: Lectures, use of commented presentations, group discussions, group seminar activities, brainstorming, case studies. Range of Other Learning Methods: Independent learning, self-study, elaboration of the written assignment, individual consultations.
    Assessment methods
    100 % written assignment
    Language of instruction
    Czech
    Further Comments
    Study Materials
    The course is taught each semester.
    The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2015.
    • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2014, recent)
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