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Business Law in Practise

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Course Unit Code119-0320/05
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 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 deliveredWinter 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.
HOU0031Mgr. Zdeněk Houdek, Ph.D.
Summary
The subject of the course is a more detailed interpretation of commercial law with a link to the practical application of the acquired theoretical knowledge. The student of the course will gain a more advanced overview in the field of commercial law regulation, draw practical recommendations in the law of commercial contracts and the law of commercial corporations.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
In the frame of this subject the students will be able:
- describe legal enviroment, define the right subject of law reguation, outline the methods of regulation and list basic forms of regulation,
- comprehend principles of the public law and private law regulation and explain differences between them
- apply gained knowledge and comprehension when interpreting and solving model situations
Course Contents
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.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
ADAMS, Alix, Stephanie CAPLAN a Graeme LOCKWOOD. Law for business students. 11th edition. Harlow, England: Pearson, 2020. ISBN 978-1-292-27224-5.
BEALE, H. G., Bénédicte FAUVARQUE-COSSON, Jacobien W. RUTGERS a Stefan VOGENAUER. Cases, materials and text on contract law. Third edition. Oxford: Hart, 2019. ISBN 978-1-5099-1257-5.
JANKŮ, Martin. EU business law: learning text. Praha: Vysoká škola finanční a správní, 2019. ISBN 978-80-7408-186-6.


ADAMS, Alix, Stephanie CAPLAN a Graeme LOCKWOOD. Law for business students. 11th edition. Harlow, England: Pearson, 2020. ISBN 978-1-292-27224-5.
LASÁK, Jan a kol. Zákon o obchodních korporacích: komentář. 2. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2021. ISBN 978-80-7598-881-2.
RABAN, Přemysl. Obchodní právo. Brno: Václav Klemm, 2020. ISBN 978-80-87713-19-8.
Recommended Reading:
ABRAMS, Rhonda. Successful business plan: secrets & strategies. 7th edition. California: PlanningShop, 2019. ISBN 978-1-933895-82-6.
JANKŮ, Martin. Commercial and civil law. Praha: Česká zemědělská univerzita, 2020. ISBN 978-80-213-3011-5.
MAZZUCATO, Mariana. The entrepreneurial state: debunking public vs. private sector myths. Revised edition. New York: PublicAffairs, 2018. ISBN 978-1-61039-613-4.
POKORNÁ, Jarmila, Jan LASÁK a Josef KOTÁSEK. Obchodní společnosti a družstva. 2. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7400-867-2.
PRAVDOVÁ, Markéta a kol. Postavení jednatele: právní a daňový pohled. Praha: Grada, 2019. ISBN 978-80-247-3150-6.
VLACHOVÁ, Barbora. Právo pro podnikatele. Praha: Vysoká škola ekonomie a managementu, 2020. ISBN 978-80-88330-05-9.
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
CreditCredit85 (85)85
        CreditWritten test85 85