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Business Law in Practise

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Course Unit Code119-0320/07
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *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.
GON043JUDr. Barbora Košinárová, 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. Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship, Negotiation Entrepreneur Commercial acts in practice, problem areas of representation, business documents, their creation and use. Working with the Commercial Register.
2. Business Corporation - Companion and investor perspective. Specific procedure for establishing s.r.o. tailor-made, optimization for the chosen business project.
3. Social Contracts and Shareholder Agreements.
4. Exercise of social rights, influence on the operation of the company, management and control of the corporation. Property issues. Disposition with shares, transfers.
5. Business Corporations' Business Practices - Specific Problems in the Care of a Good Manager. Competence and competence of the institutions. Sanction and motivation tools. Performance Agreement. Remuneration. Principles of the proper functioning of the members of the institutions. Error prevention.
6. Influence, control and uniform control. Fundamentals of Group Law. Cancellation and extinction of the corporation. Disposal.
7. Specifications of Individual Personal and Equity Companies. Specifics of listed stock companies.
8. Negotiation and contraction in business practice. Business Contracts, Contract Standardization, Business Terms and Framework Contracts. Electronic contracting.
9. Contractual solution of business risks, assurance and securing, contract optimization from the perspective of supplier and customer. Usability of self-enforceable contractual instruments. Use of bills of exchange. Contractual solution to change circumstances.
10. Consequences of breach of contractual breaches. Contractual and legal sanctions.
11. Damages. Defective performance and its consequences.
12. Purchase contract, contract for work and other contractual types in business practice.
13. Practical procedure for debt collection, including enforcement in insolvency proceedings.
14. Judicial and Out-of-Court Settlement of Commercial Disputes - Practical Approach from both the Claimant and the Defendant's View.
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
        Písemný testWritten test85 85