THE LAW OF BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS AND BUSINESS LAW
COURSE LEVEL:
Bachelor
ECTS CREDITS:
6 ECTS
COURSE COORDINATOR:
Mitja Kovač Ph.D.
COURSE GOALS:
The course acquaints students with the design of the national legal order
and the legal order of the European Union, fundamental institutions of
corporate law, and basic status of companies and other legal entities. In
the context of corporate law, the students learn about the basics of the
registry law, workers' participation in management of companies with
the basics and fundamentals of intellectual property and insolvency law.
The business part of the course is to know the students with the
fundamental institutions of property law and contract law is based,
upgraded two most common types of contracts, namely sales agreement
and work contract. Another objective is to know students basics of
securities and the advantages and disadvantages of alternative forms of
resolving commercial disputes.
COURSE CONTENT:
1.
Introduction to the legal system EU
2.
Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
3.
Company law
3.1. The Company Law Directives
3.2. The General Partnership, Limited Partnership and Silent
Partnership
3.3. Close Corporations and Public Corporation
3.4. Group of Companies
3.5. Economic interest grouping; European economic interest
grouping
3.6. Bankruptcy and Corporate Insolvency
3.7. Current Trends and future possibilities in Company law of the EU
and USA
4.
Intellectual Property Rights
4.1. Industrial property
4.2. Patents
4.3. Trademarks and brand names
4.4. Design
4.5. Semiconductor Chip
4.6. Copyright
4.7. Competition Law of EC
5.
Introduction to the Law of Obligation
5.1. The Essentials of a Contract
5.2. Rights to Real-estate property rights
5.3. The Essentials of Contracts: Offer and Acceptance, Consideration
and the Intention to create Legal Relations
6.
Contracts for the Sale of Goods
6.1. Incoterms 2000
6.2.
6.3.
7.
8.
8.1.
8.2.
8.3.
8.4.
8.5.
8.6.
COURSE WORK PLAN:
The remedies of the seller and the buyer
Rights of the unpaid Seller against the Goods and Actions for
breach of the Contract
Consumer protection
Commercial paper
Biles of exchange
Checks
Shares
Bill of Lading
Warehouse receipts
Payment and the liabilities of the parties
The course consists of lectures, seminars and exercises, so that students /
where it offers various ways of cooperation in understanding the subject
matter.
By creating tutorial and homework, the students trainees for better view
in-depth treatment of topics in the subject matter or topics that are
directly related. In addition to in-depth learning about the professional
structuring and writing skills, students tasks in the production of training
to find appropriate sources of copyright and copyright compliance. In
doing so, they assist the pedagogical worker who advises, directs them
and points to irregularities in the work. Student who produce a paper, a
presentation training seminar for public appearances and concise and
effective presentation of the professional and support of various
professional positions. With the successful completion and presented a
paper, the student can be obtained up to 12 points, which he / she added
to the result of the written examination. Instructions and basic directions
for making homework and seminar paper are in “The rules of
construction of tutorial and homework” (Pravila za izdelavo domačih in
seminarskih nalog).
COURSE GRADE SYSTEM: Colloquium: Students must pass two tests, the first in the last week of
November and the second in the first week of January. For each
colloquium can reach from 0 to 20 points, the average score is added to
the points gained on the exam. Students that do not adhere to the two
term examinations can adhere to the written exam, but the exam cannot
reach more than 90 points.
Written Exam: The exam is conducted in writing and last 90 minutes. It
consists of three parts: short test questions, at least one essay question
and a practical example, which refers to the content discussed in class.
Students in written exam can reach a maximum of 90 points. The
grading scale for final assessment: A positive result of 60 - 100 points,
60 - 67 (sufficient -d 6), 68 - 76 (good - db 7), 77 - 84 (very good - pd
8), 85 - 91 (very good -pdb. 9), over 92 (excellent - odl 10). Students
reaching less than 60 points, they get a single estimate – insufficient NZD (5). Students to carry out seminar paper, which, together with the
presentation assessed by at least 8 points (out of a possible 12), exam
performed with sufficient evaluation (6), if the test, taking into account
the average number of points achieved from the tests at least 56 points .