Course code: 176205 | Subject title: BUSINESS LAW | ||||
Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Mandatory | Year: 1 | Period: 2º S | ||
Department: Private Law | |||||
Lecturers: | |||||
PABLO-ROMERO GIL-DELGADO, M. CONCEPCION (Resp) [Mentoring ] |
Contents are divided into 5 units:
The course aims to introduce students with a sufficient knowledge of the main legal areas within the potential scope of business.
Areas of study are: Law and legal sources, the obligations of accountancy and register, agency, competition law, company law and the law of insolvency.
The general proficiencies to be adquired by the student are:
The specific proficiencies to be adquired by the student are:
Students should be able to:
Methodology | Number of hours for lectures | Number of hours for personal work |
A-1 Lectures | 45 | |
A-2 Practical activity in the class | 15 | 25 |
A-3 Discusion and debate, seminars, tutorial in groups | 10 | |
A-4 Preparation of paper and presentations | ||
A-5 Reading legal materials | ||
A-6 Personal study | 50 | |
A-7 Exams, evaluation tests | 3 | |
A-8 Personal tutorials | 2 | |
Total | 75 | 75 |
For the final evaluation of the course the professor will consider the global attitude and work of the student in the following way:
attendance to lectures and active participation in in the class (10%);
personal work and resolution of practical cases (15%);
theoretical and practical final exam (75%)
UNIT I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, CHARACTERISTICS AND LEGAL SOURCES OF BUSINESS LAW
LESSON 1: Business Law and legal sources.
UNIT II. THE BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
LESSON 2: The business organization: the subject
LESSON 3: Mercantile Register. Accountancy
UNIT III. INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITTION LAW
LESSON 4: Industrial Property and Competition Law
UNIT IV. COMPANY LAW
LESSON 5: On companies
LESSON 6: Partnerships
LESSON 7: Corporate enterprises: Sociedad Anónima
LESSON 8: Sociedad Anónima: Shares
LESSON 9: SA: Corporate Governing Bodies: general meeting
LESSON 10: SA: Corporate Governing Bodies: Directors
LESON 11: Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada
LESSON 12: Final Accounts. Amendments of Bylaws
LESSON 13: Partner or shareholder exit and exclusion. Dissolution of the company.
LESSON 14: Structural changes. Groups of companies.
UNIT V. INSOLVENCY
LESSON 15: Insolvency
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
There is no text book for the spanish legal system in English adapted to this specific subjet area. Some "Notes on Spanish Business Law" will be provided by the professor.
However, the following text book - in Spanish- may be use as a reference: De la CUESTA RUTE, Derecho Mercantil para grados no jurídicos. Ed. Huygens, 2015, 4th edicion.
The student must also use the corresponding legal texts, translated into English, that can be found in http://www.mjusticia.gob.es/cs/Satellite/es/1288774502225/TextoPublicaciones.html