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Terminated in academic year 2010/2011

Business Law

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 119-0301/01
Abbreviation OP
Course title Business Law
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Law
Course coordinator JUDr. Marcela Kernbachová

Subject syllabus

1. Commercial Law – its mean and view of its basic institutions. Subject and sources, commercial company, negotiation on behalf of businessman.
2. Personal Commercial Company – general characteristics, public commercial company, limited partnership. Partners’ status. Properties.
3. Corporate company - general characteristics. Business shares and disposition with them. Limited Liability Company.
4.Joint-Stock Company – shares, sorts of shares, basic capital and its reducing and raising. Joint-Stock Company authorities.
5. Conditions of foreign subjects entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic - legal regulations, equal treatment rule. Investments protection in the CR. Particular forms of foreign subjects’ involvement in the CR´s business.
6. General rules on commercial obligations – term obligation, relation between Civil Code and Commercial Code, legal regulation of contracts conclusions.
7. Contracting types - named contract and inominative contract, contracting types´ catalogue in Civil Code and Commercial Code´s regime, commercial conditions.
8. Custodial Institutes – sorts of legal custody of obligations and criteria of custody proceeding, right of lien, contractual penalties, debts acknowledgment, warranty, bank warranty.
9. Change and Expiration of Obligations – obigations´ changes in the subjects, subject and content. Assignment of claims and assumption of indebtedness. Expiration of obligations by obligations fulfillment and non-fulfillment. General regulation of obligation fulfillment. Avoidance of contract.
10. Economic Competition – public and private elements of competition law. Basic factum of antitrust law and law against unfair competition.
11. Bankrupt and Settlement – basis of bankruptcy law, bankrupt, bankruptcy, authority and competences of judicial factor, creditors committee. Consequences of bankruptcy declared by the court. Settlement.
12. Trading License – license, self-employed, licenses sorts, Trades Licensing Office and its competences, trading license in legal regulation.
13. Judicial and Extrajudicial Legal Disputes Judgment – court structure, basis of Civil Procedure Code, process of discovery and execution process, judicial remedy, extrajudicial judgment of legal disputes, arbitration procedure.
14. Trade Register, trade register documents, trade register organization, incorporation procedure.

Literature

- lectures and study materials accessible in LMS
- textbook: Šilhán, J., Czudek, D. Obchodní právo pro ekonomy. Ostrava: VŠB-TUO
- new Civil Code - Act No.89/2012 (only § 1-25, § 118-217, § 419-528, § 545-654, § 1721-3079)
- Act on commercial corporations - Act No. 90/2012

Advised literature

further reading:
textbook Nástin obchodního práva (Ondrejová a kol.) Brno: MU, 2014
Bejček a kol. Obchodní právo. Obecná část. Soutěžní právo. C.H.BECK, 2014.
Pokorná/Holejšovský/Lasák/Pekárek a kol. Obchodní společnosti a družstva. C.H.BECK, 2014.
Bejček a kol. Závazky v podnikání. C.H.BECK, 2015.
Kotásek/Pihera/Pokorná/Vítek. Právo cenných papírů. C.H.BECK, 2013
Chalupecká/Lavický/Juřena/Lebeda. Insolvenční právo v teorii a praxi. Brno: MU, 2012.

detailed legal commentaries:

Lavický a kol. Občanský zákoník I. Obecná část. C.H.BECK, 2014.
Hulmák a kol. Občanský zákoník V a VI. Závazkové právo. C.H.BECK, 2014.
Lasák/Pokorná/Čáp/Doležil: Zákon o obchodních korporacích. Wolters Kluwer. 2014
Bělohlávek a kol.: Zákon o obchodních korporacích. Nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2013

additional legal acts:

Insolvenční zákon
Zákon směnečný a šekový
Zákon o ochraně hospodářské soutěže