Academic Year/course:
2023/24
449 - Degree in Finance and Accounting
27504 - Introduction to Law
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
27504 - Introduction to Law
Faculty / School:
109 - Facultad de Economía y Empresa
Degree:
449 - Degree in Finance and Accounting
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
1
Semester:
First semester
Subject type:
Basic Education
Module:
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1. General information
The main goal of this subejct is for students to learn the structure of our legal system and its basic branches of private law related to business.
The purpose of the subject is to contribute to the training of professionals by providing them with a legal basis that facilitates the performance of their management, advisory and evaluation tasks in productive organizations in the global scope of the organization or in any of its functional areas. It serves as a budget and complement to the study of other subjects of the degree.
These approaches and goals are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030 ( https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/es/), specifically, the activities planned in the subject will contribute to the achievement of the goals: 4, 8 and 9 and goals 4.4 and 8.3.
2. Learning results
The student, in order to pass this subject, must demonstrate the following results:
1. -Identify the concepts of civil and commercial law that are essential for the development in the market (legal person, legal and voluntary representation, civil liability, patrimony and company, entrepreneur, company, insolvency, etc.).
2. -They will learn how to advise the entrepreneur on the legal consequences of being an entrepreneur: legal advertising, accounting duties, and the obligation to compete.
3. -Distinguish the different types of commercial companies and their basic legal regime.
4. -The student will learn the process of incorporation of the different types of companies, with special attention to the corporation and the limited liability company, which he/she will be able to distinguish and compare.
5. -You will be familiar with the regulations governing the different corporate operations.
6. -Know the treatment that the Spanish legal system gives to corporate insolvency.
7. -Will be able to search, analyze and synthesize sources of information and legal data (official gazettes, jurisprudence, resolutions of different public institutions...)
8. -Understand the importance of applying scientific rigor and ethical standards in the development of their professional activity.
9. -Incorporate in all its tasks the respect for fundamental rights, gender equality and human rights.
3. Syllabus
BLOCK I. PRINCIPLES OF PROPERTY LAW
Unit 1: Economic relations and law
Unit 2. The legal patrimonial relationship
Unit 3: The economic exchange of goods and services
Unit 4. Property aspects: family law and inheritance law
BLOCK II. COMMERCIAL LAW
Unit 5: The entrepreneur and his collaborators
Unit 6: Duty of accounting and legal publicity
Unit 7. The duty to compete, distinctive signs and industrial property
Unit 8. Commercial companies
Unit 9. Capital companies (I)
Unit 10. Capital companies (II)
Unit 11. Securities
Unit 12. Bankruptcy and pre-bankruptcy law
4. Academic activities
Lectures: sessions with the teaching staff in which they will actively present the subject syllabus: 30 hours Practical classes: sessions of resolution of practical cases presented by the tecahers and analysis of documents of application of law and jurisprudence: 30 hours
Personal Study: preparation of classes and practical activities: 88 hours
Assessment tests. 2 hours
6 ECTS = 150 hours
In principle, the teaching methodology and its evaluation is planned to be based on face-to-face classes . However, if circumstances so require, they may be carried out online.
5. Assessment system
The subject will be evaluated in the first call by means of continuous and/or global evaluation, and by means of global evaluation in the second call.
In FIRST CALL:
Continuous assessment:
1) Theoretical-practical intermediate evaluation test whose content will refer to the first half of the syllabus: 50%.
2) Final theoretical-practical test whose content will refer to the second half of the syllabus: 50%. Only students who have obtained a grade equal to or higher than three (3) in the intermediate evaluation testmay take this final test at.
Global Assessment:
It will consist of a single overall written test on theoretical and practical aspects of the program: 100%.
For those students who do not pass the subject in the first call, there will be a SECOND CALL with global assessment that will consist of a final written test following the same criteria as in the first call.
Assessment Criteria:
In order to pass the course by both evaluation systems, the student must obtain a score equal to or higher than five (5) out of a total of ten (10) points.
In this evaluation, the following will be assessed:
a) The theoretical knowledge of the subject, the expository and synthesis capacity of the student; the legal terminology that he/she knows and masters; its use in expository discourse and correct syntax.
b) The ability to apply theory to the solution of practical cases.