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Business Law

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Course Unit Code119-0301/10
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated2 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
ROZ21prof. JUDr. Naděžda Rozehnalová, CSc.
CZU0006Dr Mgr. Damian Czudek, Ph.D.
HOU0031Mgr. Zdeněk Houdek, Ph.D.
Summary
The subject determines business law including entrepreneur´s status and basic terms as well as business companies and trade register regulation, competitive law, economical competition and its protection, business obligatoy relations and procedural regulation of disputes resulting from those relations and insolvency.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
In the subject matter students are supposed to:
- describe regulatory enviroment, define its subject, outline the methods of regulation and list basal forms of regulation,
- comprehend principles of the public law and private law regulation and to explain differences between them
- apply gained knowledge and comprehension to interprete and solve model
situations

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.
Course Contents
1) The subject and system of Business Law, the basic terms, sources. Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur´s actions.
2) Business Companies legal regulation – introduction.
3) Establishment and dissolution of the company, changes, insolvency.
4) Private companies, Ltd.
5) Joint Stock Company
6) Business obligatory relationships
7) Contracts, obligations´ securing
8) Changes and conclusion of obligations
9) Responsibility, consequences of contract non-fulfillment limitation of time
10) Types of contracts by Trade Code
11) Introduction to stocks legal regulation
12) Competitive law, existential protection of economic competition
13) Law against unfair competition
14) Business disputes solution
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
- 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
- přednášky + studijní materiály k přednáškám v LMS
- skripta Šilhán, J., Czudek, D. Obchodní právo pro ekonomy. Ostrava: VŠB-TUO
- nový občanský zákoník (NOZ) - zák. č. 89/2012 Sb. (pouze § 1-25, § 118-217, § 419-528, §545-654, § 1721-3079)
- zákon o obchodních korporacích (ZOK) - zák. č. 90/2012 Sb. (zejména § 1-463)
Recommended Reading:
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
rozšiřující literatura:
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/Šilhán a kol. Obchodní smlouvy. 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.

detailní komentáře k zákonům:

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

další právní předpisy:

Insolvenční zákon
Zákon směnečný a šekový
Zákon o ochraně hospodářské soutěže
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Exercises evaluationCredit85 (85)85
        CreditOther task type85 85