Commercial and Economic Law

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

The main educational goal of the course: Basic orientation in the field of commercial law and economic law, which is necessary for the practice of each graduate no. BUSINESS IN TRADE program.
Main educational outcomes of the course:
Knowledge: students will gain knowledge and understand the legal regulation of the position of entrepreneurs and the relationships that entrepreneurs enter into in their business activities, learn the relevant legal terminology and learn to use it correctly.
Practical skills: students can orientate themselves in the sources of commercial law and economic law, work with the text of relevant legislation, are aware of the context, can use the acquired knowledge in practical situations, e.g. when declaring trades, establishing business companies, concluding business contracts or in the event of bankruptcy of an entrepreneur in the form of insolvency or extension. They know how to work with databases of legal regulations, with registers of entrepreneurs, with registers of debtors and bankrupts, as well as with the business journal.
Competences: students can work with valid and effective subject legislation and can apply it to situations that entrepreneurs commonly encounter in practice. They can read legal norms with knowledge of basic concepts and institutes of commercial law and economic law.

Support literature

1. VETERNÍKOVÁ, Mária a kol. Základy obchodného práva pre ekonómov. 2. prepracované a aktualizované vydanie. Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2023. 256 s. ISBN: 978-80-571-0613-5.
2. HOLUB, Dušan a kol. Základy práva pre ekonómov. 2. vydanie. Bratislava: Wolters Kluver, 2021. 332 s. ISBN: 978-80-571-0416-2.
3. MAMOJKA, Mojmír a kol. Obchodné právo I. Všeobecná časť, súťažné právo, právo obchodných spoločností a družstva. Bratislava: C. H. Beck, 2021. 832 s. ISBN: 978-80-8232-007-0.
4. MAMOJKA, Mojmír a kol. Obchodné právo II. Obchodné záväzkové vzťahy. Bratislava: C. H. Beck, 2023. 744 s. ISBN: 978-80-8232-025-4
5. PATAKYOVÁ, Mária a kol. Obchodný zákonník. Komentár. Bratislava: C. H. Beck, 2022. 1792 s. ISBN: 978-80-8232-018-6.
6. WINKLER, Martin a kol. Basics of Law. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo Ekonóm, 2020. 290 s. ISBN 978-80-225-4781-9.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to legal issues, theory of law. 2. Commercial law, concept, subject, system, sources. Business activities of foreign persons. 3. Trade license business. 4. General questions of business companies. 5. Partnerships. General Commercial Partnership. Limited Partnership. 6. Capital companies. Limited Liability Company. 7. Joint Stock Company. A Simple share Company. 8. Cooperative. Transnational legal forms of business companies. 9. Protection of competition. 10. Business obligations. 11. The most frequently concluded contracts in business practice. 12. Silent Partnership Contract. Industrial Property License contract. Contract of Sale of an Enterprise. Contractual obligations in international trade. 13. Bankruptcy, restructuring, debt relief, as ways to solve the unfavorable financial situation of the entrepreneur. Cross-border insolvency.

Requirements to complete the course

40% active form of teaching during the term
60% written exam

Student workload

Total workload of the student: 130
Student´s workload of individual educational activities: 130
Attendance of seminars: 26
Preparation for the seminar: 26
Preparation for the continuous test: 26
Preparation for the exam: 52

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak

Date of approval: 09.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 04.03.2024