Academic Year/course:
2023/24
432 - Joint Law - Business Administration and Management Programme
30517 - Mercantile law I
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
30517 - Mercantile law I
Faculty / School:
102 - Facultad de Derecho
Degree:
432 - Joint Law - Business Administration and Management Programme
ECTS:
9.0
Year:
4
Semester:
First semester
Subject type:
Compulsory
Module:
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1. General information
The goal of the course Commercial Law I is for students to acquire general knowledge about the legal regime of the economic activity developed in the market, the legal status of entrepreneurs, the regulation of the means or instruments to carry out such activity, as well as the traffic itself in which such activity consists; while progressing in the acquisition of essential competences for a jurist such as: the obtaining of regulations, jurisprudence and doctrinal contributions, the critical analysis of current regulations and the analysis, synthesis and resolution of legal- commercial problems.
These approaches and goals are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda of United Nations (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/es/). The learning activities foreseen in this subject will contribute to the achievement of goals 8.2 and 8.3 of Objective 8.
2. Learning results
In order to pass this subject, the student must demonstrate that he/she has achieved the following learning results:
1. -Explains and explains the main concepts, elements and institutions that make up the legal regime of the economic activity carried out in the market, the status of the subjects that professionally carry out such activity (the entrepreneurs) and some of the means or instruments necessary for it.
2. -It obtains, with the support of ICT, regulations, jurisprudence and doctrinal contributions relevant to the field of
-Commercial law.
3. -Critically analyzes the current regulations in the field of commercial law.
4. -Analyzes and synthesizes problems related to the knowledge indicated in the first point, as well as the solutions proposed by the doctrine.
5. -Formulates solutions to legal-commercial problems.
6. -He drafts documents for practice related to commercial matters such as, for example, legal opinions, lawsuits, contracts, articles of association, etc...
3. Syllabus
1. Commercial law as a category: concept and sources. New trends in commercial law.
2. The organizing principles of the entrepreneur's activity: free competition, industrial property, correctness in traffic, advertising and accounting.
3. The commercial company and business about the company.
4. The commercial entrepreneur and his statute.
5. Individual commercial entrepreneur and social entrepreneur. Corporate law. Commercial companies.
4. Academic activities
Theoretical teaching sessions to introduce the student to the systematics and basic contents of the subject. The participatory lecture and/or flipped classroom methodology will be used . 54 hours
Problems and cases: resolution, exposition and discussion of practical cases, carried out in the classroom or outside the classroom and seminars. 30 hours
Study and preparation of practical activities. 136.5 hours
Asessment 4.5 hours
5. Assessment system
Two assessment systems are established, one mixed (I) and the other, simple (II), consisting of a "global final test", I. MIXED SYSTEM
It consists of the following evaluation activities:
a) Assessment of activities developed during the term. The overall result of this assessment is weighted at 30% of the final grade.
During the semester, students must participate in some of the seminars or carry out the different case studies, or partial assessment tests provided by the teachers of the subject, as well as to participate in their exposition or debate in the classroom.
The assessment of these activities will be based on the grade of between 2 and 5 learning activities. Partial grades will be providedto the student.
Theassessment of these activities will assess the constant and responsible work, the knowledge achieved in relation to the main concepts, elements and institutions that make up the subject, the capacity of legal writing, the handling of sources specific to the subject and the argumentative and critical reflection capacity. In all the activities and exercises, clarity of exposition, argumentative coherence and linguistic correctness will also be taken into consideration, as well as respect for the basic criteria in the preparation of academic papers (absence of plagiarism, etc.).
The grade obtained in the evaluation of the activities developed during the term is kept for the second call of the term.
b) Final written test. It constitutes 70% of the final grade.
It consists of a single practical test that will consist of the resolution of a practical case. Students must come to the tests with the legal texts they deem necessary for the resolution of the practical case. Failure to do so is the sole responsibility of the examinee.
The student who does not obtain in this final written test a minimum grade of 4 out of 10 points, will not pass the subject. Only on the basis of this score will the assessment grade of the activities developed during the term be weighted.
II. SIMPLE SYSTEM BASED EXCLUSIVELY ON A FINAL GLOBAL TEST
It will apply to students who do not attend class regularly or who, while attending, choose not to participate in the scheduled activities
The final overall test will consist of two parts:
a) a final written test consisting of the resolution of a practical case study identical to the one foreseen as final test in the mixed system. It will constitute 70% of the final grade. To pass the subject it will be necessary to achieve a minimum grade of 4 out of 10 points in this test.
b) completion of an additional written exercise that will constitute 30% of the final grade. It will consist of a questionnaire with several short questions on the content of the subject. The assessment of this test will assess the knowledge achieved in in relation to the main concepts, elements and institutions that make up the subject, the legal writing skillsand the argumentative and critical reflection capacity; expository clarity, argumentative coherence and linguistic correctness will also be taken into consideration.
In order to pass the subject it will be necessary to achieve a minimum grade of 5 out of 10 points in this test.