KPOPRI_T Business Law I

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
JUDr. Jindřiška Šedová, CSc. (lecturer)
JUDr. Dana Šramková, Ph.D., MBA (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Vladimír Týč, CSc.
Department of Law – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: JUDr. Jindřiška Šedová, CSc.
Timetable
Sun 16. 3. 12:50–15:20 T1, Sat 26. 4. 12:50–15:20 T1
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
The subject indroduces students to basic tools of Business Law. The emphasis is put on legal relations subjects in the business sphere, their origin, changes and cessation. Global attention is also paid to legal regulations of business subjects' contractual relationships as well as to competition law. The subject is a follow-up course of subjects Introduction to Law and Civil Law. Passing these subjects is a prerequisite for a successful study of follow-up courses, namely European Law I & II, Business Law II, Law and Finance, and Contractual Relationships in Finance. Students will get familiar with basic tools of business law in the Czech Republic. They will learn to work with basic legal documents of Business Law in order for them to be able to interpret and apply these documents on concrete facts from the corporate environment.
Syllabus
  • Business Law (object, system, sources). General conditions for entrepreneurship and its subjects. Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship conditions, business firm. Legal transactions in business activities. Foreigners' entrepreneurship. Trade and non-trade entrepreneurship. Register of Companies.Trading company (general form) I. Trading company characteristics. Classification of trading companies. Vote misuse in a trading company. Property relations in a trading company. Trading company stock. Fixed capital. Trading company founding and formation. Bodies of a trading company. Competition ban. Partners' rights and duties.Trading company (general form) II. Concept of business share and business share disposal. Ways and reasons for abolition of trading companies and partners' share in a company, partners' settlement at share cessation. Company cessation. Personal trading companies: Public owned corporation. P.o.c. founding and formation. Partners' rights and duties. Internal organisation of a corporation. Corporation cessation and abolition. Personal trading companies: Limited partnership. Limited partnership founding and formation. Partners. Partners' rights and duties. Bodies of a company. Limited partnership cessation and abolition.Corporate enterprises: Private limited company. Company founders, foundation of a comapny, nature and legal characteristics of articles of incorporation, stakes and their administration (survey), non-monetary investments and their valuation, position of a company partner, survey of their rights and duties, business share, business share disposal, settlement amount, bodies of a company, exclusion procedure, competition ban in a company, reserve fund. Company abolition and its legal consequences. Corporate enterprises: Joint stock company. Joint stock company definition. Concept of a stock. Types of stocks. Joint stock company founding and formation. Fixed capital, its decrease and increase. Organisation of a joint stock company. Bodies of a joint stock company. Liability of members of board of trustees and board of directors. Shareholdres' rights. Shareholders' minority rights. Trading company transformation: Merger. Concern law. Division of a company. Change in legal form of a company. Merger: merger through incorporation, merger through fusion, course of a merger, merger contract. Defining a concern. Actual and contractual concern. Controlling contract. Relation between a controlling and controlled subject not governed by a controlling contract. Cooperatives. Concept and basic features of a cooperative. Cooperative founding. Articles of a cooperative. Bodies of a cooperative. Membership in a cooperative – rights and duties of members. Property relations of a cooperative. Cooperative cessation and abolition.Liability. Property liability of trading companies and partners' liability. Basic regulation of liability in business law. Liability for damages. Liability presumptions. Circumstances excluding liability. Liability on obligation. Introduction to Competition law. Unfair competition. Competition law. Its concept and purpose. Two branches of competition law. Brief characteristics of antitrust law. Competitive relation. Underlying market. General clause. Facts of unfair competition. Claims arisen from unfair-competition torts (a survey). Business commitments. General characteristics. Origin of commitments. Business-law contract, origination, changes, provision, and termination of a contract. Survey of stipulated types of business contracts. Tutorials are scheduled in two 3-hour blocks according to the following topics: 1. Topics 1-6, 2. Topics 7-13. Detailing of the thematic content of individual tutorials – see the timetable. A more detailed timetable is included in the Distant-Study Manual.
Literature
  • 2. Šedová J. Obchodní právo I. Distanční studijní opora. ESF MU v Brně. 2005. ISBN 80-210-3331-2.
  • Švarc, Z. a kol. Základy obchodního práva. Plzeň : Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2005, 476 s., ISBN 86898-51-2.
  • 1. Večerková, A.- Faldyna, F. - Kobliha, I.- Pokorná, J.- Vítek, J.-Tomsa, M.-Rozehnalová, N.- Balabán, P. - Pohl, T. Obchodní právo. 1. vyd. Praha: Meritum 2005. 1386 s. ISBN 80-86395-90-1.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Výuka probíhá distanční formou. Předmět je ukončen písemnou zkouškou. Předpokladem pro přihlášení na zkoušku je odevzdání POTu ve stanoveném termínu.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2009.
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