Basics of Law
- Credits: 6
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 20sP
- Semester: winter
- Year: 2
- Faculty of Business Economics with seat in Košice
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
The aim of the course is to acquire a systematic overview and basic orientation in the field of the
basics of law, both within the Slovak legal order and EU law. Acquire knowledge of central
institutes and relations in the legal branches regulating economic relations.
Knowledge:
· acquisition of basic knowledge of all legal branches of the Slovak legal system with
emphasis on understanding the basic concepts and legal categories,
· understanding of the essential contexts, principles and theories of the legal order in the
current social and economic context,
· understanding the importance of legal regulation of economic relations in their complexity.
Competences:
· professional competencies acquired through a comprehensive orientation in the legal order
of the Slovak Republic and partly also in European law,
· personnel competencies deepened by the application of legal regulation to ordinary legal
acts of a university-educated economist,
· social competences developed through the solution of application problems in the context
of the ethical dimension of law.
Skills: · acquisition of analytical skills for working with legal texts and orientation in the system of legal regulations, · the ability to adequately interpret legislation, in both economic and legal contexts, · the ability to correctly apply legal norms to solve a specific legal problem.
Indicative content
Consultation:
Basic legal concepts, conceptual definition of law, sources of law, legal norms. Normative legal
acts, individual legal acts, legal relationship. Bodies of state power and administration. Bodies of
the European Union. Selected institutes of labor law. Responsibility, definition of liability.
Constitutional principles of work of the courts, the Court of Justice, Prosecution and its
Organization Prosecutor's supervision, criminal proceedings, courts and prosecutors, courts
system. Civil proceedings. Business Law. Industrial Property Rights. The regulation of private
business people, trade law. Enterprise and its business name, business name protection, conduct
of the undertaking. Trading Companies. Insolvency Law.
Self-study:
The structure of law, types of law, force and effect of law, the scope of law, the application of
legal norms, interpretation of the law, analogy. Characteristics of European Union law. Primary
and secondary sources of EU. Entity relationship, relationship building, legal facts, legal
safeguards laws, rights system. National Council of the Slovak Republic, the Government,
ministries and other central government bodies, local authorities, local government authorities.
Participants in labor relations, employer, employees, employment contracts and employment
creation, selection, appointment, change of employment, termination of employment, agreement,
notice, immediate abolition, working time, rest periods, wages, remuneration and expenses.
Administrative liability, criminal liability, commercial liability, employment liability, employee
liability for damage caused to the organization, the employer's responsibility for the damage.
Prosecutor's supervision, criminal proceedings, courts and prosecutors, courts system. The power
and jurisdiction of the courts in civil proceedings, the parties, a court 1 degree, remedies,
enforcement and execution, costs, legal aid lawyers. The concept and scope of commercial law,
commercial law role in the regulation of social relations in the economy, the relationship Civil
and Commercial Law, Commercial Code, its structure and relationship to the Civil Code.
Overview of legal regulation of industrial property, industrial property characteristic, trademarks,
utility models. Acquisition, change, revoke the business under the Trade Act, other conditions to
the business. Wnterprise and its business name, business name protection, conduct of the
undertaking. Trade secrets, foreign business entities in SR, business registration. Characteristics
of companies, Formation of the company, cancellation and termination of the company.
Characteristics of terms liquidation, bankruptcy, restructuring. Bankruptcy proceedings.
Support literature
Elementary literature:
1. HOLUB, D. a kol. 2016. Základy práva pre ekonómov. Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer SR s.r.o., 2016. 356 s. ISBN 978- 80-8168-513-2
2. HOLUB, D. a kol. 2018. Praktikum k základom práva pre ekonómov. Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2018. ISBN 978-80-8168-909-3
3. KROPAJ, M. a kol. 2017. Základy obchodného práva pre ekonómov. Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2017. ISBN 978-80-8168-727-3
4. KROŠLÁK, D., BALOG, B., SURMAJOVÁ, Ž. 2020. Teória štátu a práva. Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2020. ISBN 978-80-5710-275-5
Supplementary literature:
1. OVEČKOVÁ, O., CSACH, K., ŽITŇANSKÁ, L. 2020. Obchodné právo 2. Obchodné spoločnosti a družstvo. Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2020. ISBN 978-80-571-0291-5
2. LUKÁČKA, P. 2019. Kategória zodpovednosti a zodpovedné podnikanie v právnom prostredí Slovenskej republiky. Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2019. ISBN 978-80-571-0080-5
3. Aktuálne právne predpisy v rámci právneho poriadku SR a práva EÚ
4. OSINA, P. 2017. Legal Theory. Praha: Leges, 2017. ISBN 978-80-7502-223-3
Syllabus
Consultation: Basic legal concepts, conceptual definition of law, sources of law, legal norms. Normative legal acts, individual legal acts, legal relationship. Bodies of state power and administration. Bodies of the European Union. Selected institutes of labor law. Responsibility, definition of liability. Constitutional principles of work of the courts, the Court of Justice, Prosecution and its Organization Prosecutor's supervision, criminal proceedings, courts and prosecutors, courts system. Civil proceedings. Business Law. Industrial Property Rights. The regulation of private business people, trade law. Enterprise and its business name, business name protection, conduct of the undertaking. Trading Companies. Insolvency Law. Self-study: The structure of law, types of law, force and effect of law, the scope of law, the application of legal norms, interpretation of the law, analogy. Characteristics of European Union law. Primary and secondary sources of EU. Entity relationship, relationship building, legal facts, legal safeguards laws, rights system. National Council of the Slovak Republic, the Government, ministries and other central government bodies, local authorities, local government authorities. Participants in labor relations, employer, employees, employment contracts and employment creation, selection, appointment, change of employment, termination of employment, agreement, notice, immediate abolition, working time, rest periods, wages, remuneration and expenses. Administrative liability, criminal liability, commercial liability, employment liability, employee liability for damage caused to the organization, the employer's responsibility for the damage. Prosecutor's supervision, criminal proceedings, courts and prosecutors, courts system. The power and jurisdiction of the courts in civil proceedings, the parties, a court 1 degree, remedies, enforcement and execution, costs, legal aid lawyers. The concept and scope of commercial law, commercial law role in the regulation of social relations in the economy, the relationship Civil and Commercial Law, Commercial Code, its structure and relationship to the Civil Code. Overview of legal regulation of industrial property, industrial property characteristic, trademarks, utility models. Acquisition, change, revoke the business under the Trade Act, other conditions to the business. Wnterprise and its business name, business name protection, conduct of the undertaking. Trade secrets, foreign business entities in SR, business registration. Characteristics of companies, Formation of the company, cancellation and termination of the company. Characteristics of terms liquidation, bankruptcy, restructuring. Bankruptcy proceedings.
Requirements to complete the course
Continuous assessment:
Written exam: 30 %
Individual presentation: 10 %
Combined final test: 60 %
Student workload
156 hours in total, of which:
· 20 h attendance at consultations
· 32 h self-study
· 26 hours preparation at consultations
· 26 hours preparation for semester tests
· 52 hours preparation for the exam
Language whose command is required to complete the course
slovak
Date of approval: 10.03.2022
Date of the latest change: 24.01.2022