Course Details

Law in Business Relations

Academic Year 2023/24

NVB062 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-GK Winter Semester 1st year

Overview of commercial code, its fundamentals. Parallel of commercial and civil law. Basic enactment of commercial code. Firm and business assets, business name, business secrets, companies register. Business competition and unfair competition. Commercial companies and syndicates, their establishment, changes and disposal. Co-partnership company, commandite company, limited liability company, joint-stock company, 3 types of syndicates. Co-partners, basic capital, partnership contracts and foundation documents. Non-mandatory and mandatory enactment. Particular contractual nominated types, their creation in practice, standard contracts and their use. Securing commitments.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Mgr. Richard Bartes, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Common law knowledge from secondary school is required.

Aims

To expand law knowledge by knowledge related to business and commercial engagement relations including legal forms of capital and personal companies.

Basic knowledge interrelated with business law and their interpretation and application on corporate environment.

Basic Literature

MAREK, Karel, LIŠKA, Petr a Martin JANKŮ. Obchodní závazky. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2021, 516 s. ISBN 978-80-7676-123-0. (cs)
POKORNÁ, Jarmila, LASÁK, Jan a Josef KOTÁSEK. Obchodní společnosti a družstva. 2. vyd. Praha: C.H.Beck, 2022, 520 s. ISBN 978-80-7400-867-2. (cs)
BASKIND, Eric, OSBORNE, Greg and Lee ROACH. Commercial Law. 3rd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 832 s. ISBN 9780198825975. (en)

Recommended Reading

BERAN, Karel, ČECH, Petr, DVOŘÁK, Bohumil, ELISCHER, David, HRÁDEK, Jiří, JANEČEK, Václav, KÜHN, Zdeněk, NOVOTNÁ KRTOUŠOVÁ, Lucie a Pavel ONDŘEJEK. Právní jednání a odpovědnost právnických osob po rekodifikaci českého a soukromého práva. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2018, 296 s. ISBN 978-80-7598-044-1. (cs)
ČERNÁ, Stanislava, ŠTENGLOVÁ, Ivana a Irena PELIKÁNOVÁ. Právo obchodních korporací. 2. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2021, 656 s. ISBN 978-80-7598-991-8.  (cs)
MCGAUGHEY, Ewan. Principles of Enterprise Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 814 s. ISBN 9781009045735. (en)

Prerequisites

Common law knowledge from secondary school is required.

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/271078

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Business.

2. Entrepreneur.

3. Commercial companies.

4. Cooperative.

5. Comparison of commercial companies and cooperatives.

6. Forms of commercial companies and cooperatives.

7. Acting partners of commercial companies and cooperatives.

8. Organs of commercial companies and cooperatives.

9. Types and forms of stocks outcoming by joint-stock company.

10. Commercial register.

11. Contractual relations.

12. Particulars of the most commonly used types of contracts.

13. Business court.