Academic Year/course:
2023/24
417 - Degree in Economics
27404 - Principles of law and mercantile law
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
27404 - Principles of law and mercantile law
Faculty / School:
109 - Facultad de Economía y Empresa
Degree:
417 - Degree in Economics
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
1
Semester:
First semester
Subject type:
Basic Education
Module:
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1. General information
The main objective of the subject is for students to acquire a general knowledge of the structure of our legal system and its basic branches of Private Law related to business (Civil and Commercial Law), contributing to the training of professionals with a legal basis to facilitate the performance of their management tasks, assessment and evaluation in productive organizations at a global level or in any of their functional areas.
These approaches and objectives are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda of United Nations (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/es/), specifically, the learning activities planned in this subject can contribute to the achievement of Goals 4 (Objective 4.4), 8 (Objective 8.3), and 9 (Objective 9.b).
2. Learning results
The student, in order to pass this subject, must demonstrate the following results...
1. Understands the notion of Private Law as that part of the Law that regulates relationships between private parties, including relationships of an economic nature.
2. Is able to search, analyse and synthesize sources of information and legal data (official gazettes, jurisprudence, resolutions of different public institutions, etc.)
3. Knows basic legal concepts in the private and professional sphere, the bases of our economic system, the fundamental role of private property in it, the mechanisms to articulate its transmission, and knows how to distinguish between the different types of limited real rights.
4. Has assimilated the legal concept of entrepreneur, both social and individual, and its legal status, which includes the duties of accounting, legal publicity and also those derived from Competition Law.
5. Knows how to use the regulations governing intangible assets, distinctive signs and industrial creations, which, when integrated into the business heritage facilitate competition in the market.
6. Is capable of setting up the most common types of companies as legal forms of enterprise, with special attention to the joint-stock company and the limited liability company, which the student will be able to distinguish and compare.
7. Understands the insolvency proceedings applied to companies in insolvency.
8. Understands the importance of the application of scientific rigor and deontological standards in the development of their professional activity.
3. Syllabus
1. Economic relations and law
2. The legal patrimonial relationship
3. The economic exchange of goods and services
4. Property aspects of Family and Inheritance law
5. The entrepreneur and the entrepreneur's collaborators
6. The duty of accounting and the duty of legal disclosure
7. The duty to compete. Distinctive signs and industrial property
8. The social entrepreneur (general theory of commercial companies)
9. Capital companies (I)
10. Capital companies (II)
11. Securities
12. Insolvency proceedings
4. Academic activities
Lectures: Activities in which the teacher will explain the syllabus and systematize knowledge. A total of 30 hours per student and group are assigned .
Problems and cases: Dynamic activities consisting of the resolution of practical cases proposed by the teacher with an allocation of 30 hours per student and group.
Study of the subject: Preparation of classes and practical activities with a total of 88 hours corresponding to the student.
Assessment tests. 2 hours.
5. Assessment system
In the first call, two evaluation systems are established, one of continuous evaluation (1) and the other of global evaluation (2), and by means of global evaluation during the second call.
1. Continuous assessment
To be eligible for this form of evaluation it is mandatory to attend and actively participate in the resolution of the exercises and work to be done in the classroom. Specifically, it is necessary to participate in at least 75% of the proposed activities.
The evaluation will be carried out by means of two midterm tests:
a. An intermediate evaluation test on the first half of the syllabus that will consist of a theoretical-practical exam . The grade will account for 50% of the final grade.
b. A final test referring to the second half of the syllabus, which will consist of a theoretical and practical exam . The grade will account for 50% of the final grade.
Students who have obtained a grade equal to or higher than three (3) in the midterm evaluation test may sit for this final exam.
2. Global Assessment
It will be applied to those who have not attended and actively participated in the classes and activities of the subject; who do not reach the minimum grade, or who want to improve their grade.
The evaluation will be carried out by means of a single comprehensive written exam for all students, which will deal with theoretical and practical aspects of the twelve topics of the program. It will account for 100% of the student's final grade.
Assessment Criteria:
In the evaluation of all tests, the following will be taken into account:
a. Theoretical knowledge of the subject; the legal terminology they knows and masters, its use in the expository discourse and correctness in syntax.
b. The student's ability to apply theory to the solution of practical cases.