Checking date: 12/04/2018


Course: 2018/2019

Introduction to Business Law
(17586)
Bachelor in Management and Technology (2020 Study Plan) (Plan: 393 - Estudio: 351)


Coordinating teacher:

Department assigned to the subject: Private Law Department

Type: Basic Core
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:

Branch of knowledge: Social Sciences and Law



Description of contents: programme
1.The concept of commercial law: Characteristics, sources and factors that affect it. 2.Companies, employers and starts up. 3. Legal framework of sole traders and partnerships ( requirements) 4. Legal obligations of employers.Labor relations. 5. Legal tools to protect trading companies 6. The theory of trading companies -General partnerships, general and limited partnership, a joint-stock companies - Corporations: General theory - Corporations: Bodies and structure changes - Limited liability Companies. 7. Introduction to commercial agreements. General theory of commercial purchasing agreement 8. Commercial agreements (II): Collaboration contracts, financing, transportation and insurance contracts.agency contracts and the differences with the categories of the labour relation. 9.-Introduction to law applicable to currencies and interest rates: letter of exchange, bank checks, promissory notes 10. Introduction to bankruptcy law: General Theory, principles, bodies, bankruptcy effects, legal remedies, and types.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.