Business Law

Year
2014/2015
Course title
Business Law
Course number
210111 - 0410
Lecturer
Nowak-Far Artur, Professor
4,50 ECTS points
A. Course objective
The purpose of this course is to make it possible for students to better understand legal context of international business
transactions and prudently structure their future typical business operations (of whatever character). This includes
preparing them (a) to structure and conduct their international business activities in a way which takes into account
internationally diverse domestic legal regulations, (b) to communicate better with the legal staff or external legal services.
Course description: The course also provides basic advice concerning legal vehicles for conducting business activity
(including pan-European vehicles) as well as typical instruments used in international civil and commercial transactions
legal for their execution and/or securing. It also deliberates on the most important aspects of international contract
formation and execution, international civil and commercial conflict settlement system. The coursework includes also core
elements of public regulation concerning business activity, including that pertaining to competition or the protection of
consumers and minors.
B. Course syllabus
Legal principles of running a business domestically and internationally (also within the internal European market).
Vehicles for conducting business activity (including pan-European vehicles). International contract formation and
execution. International conflict settlements. EU economic freedoms. Closing business operations.
C. Educational outcome
Knowledge
Skills
1. Awareness of basic legal concepts and institutions of international business law, their mutual
relationships and sources of international business law.
2. Awareness of and ability to properly select business vehicles in international context.
3. Ability to assess legal risk and to minimize it through the adequate structuring of business
activity (also with regard to contract formation and performance securing)
4. Ability to use legal instruments in international civil and commercial transaction
1. Understanding basic international business law terminology.
2. Ability to adequately perceive the significance and to properly formulate legal problems
arising out of international business activity and ability to indentify key elements for their solving,
and in more complex cases - ability to formulate questions to legal services.
3. Ability to use legal instruments in international business activity.
Social competencies
1. Ability to conduct business activity as a natural person.
2. Ability to assess legal risk pertaining to business activity and conducting all types of solving
activities.
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c.d.Business Law
D. Semester time table
1
The context and sources of International Business Law (IBL)
2
Principles of IBL
3
Business vehicles: Comparative review
4
Business vehicles: Pan-European forms
5
International contract formation
6
Securing performance in international contract
7
International contract execution
8
International torts and delicts
9
International business conflict settlement
10
International business conflict settlement: Arbitrage
11
International sales and international consumers
12
Negotiable instruments
13
Intellectual Property in IBL
14
Public regulation in IBL: conventional and WTO impact
15
Public regulation in IBL: Competition and State Aid
E. Basic literature
N. Kubasek, M. N. Browne, D. J. Herron, A. Giampetro-Mezer, L. Barkacs, C. Williamson, Dynamic Business Law,
McGraw-Hill, Boston 2009.
F. Supplementary literature
1. R. Goode, H. Kronke, E. McKendrick, Transnational Commercial Law, Vol. 1 and 2, Oxford University Press, Oxford
2007, 2. P. M. North, J. J. Fawcett, Cheshire and North's Private International Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004
(or newer).
G. Author's most important publications concerning the offered course
1. Product safety. Fundamental aspects of the European Union and Polish laws with regard to non-agricultural products,
in: M. Kepinski (ed.), The evaluation of the new Polish legislation in the matter of consumer protection from the European
perspective, AMU Press, Zakrzewo 2001. 2. with L. V. Ryan, Patterns of Polish private sektor development, in: M. E.
Kreinin (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Commercial Policy, Pergamon Press, Oxford 1995. 3. with L. V. Ryan, R. Hunter,
Private ownership in Poland: Former Laws, Prezent Legislation, in: K. Fatemi (ed.), The Globalization of Business in the
1990s: Implications for Trade and Investment, Conference Papers of the International Trade and Finance Association,
Reading, 1994.
H. Numbers of required prerequisites
not required
I. Course size and mode
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c.d.Business Law
Full-time
Saturday-Sunday
Afternoon
Total:
30
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Lecture
30
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J. Final mark composition
multiple choice examination
75%
report
25%
K. Foreign language requirments
English
L. Selection criteria
Order of applications
M. Methods applied
case studies
reports
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