Commercial Law
Course type
Study programme and level
Language
slovenščina
Lectures | Seminar | Tutorial | Druge oblike študija | Individual Work | ECTS |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Study programme and level | Study field | Academic year | Semester |
I. level | Law | 2 | 4 |
Course Type
Compulsory
Workload | Lectures (h/semester) | Seminar
(h/semester) |
Tutorial
(h/semester) |
Individual Work (h/semester) | ECTS |
60 | 20 | 120 | 8 |
Lecturer
em. prof. dr. Krešo Puharič
Language
English
Prerequisites
Enrollment into the 2nd year.
Content (Syllabus outline)
- The EU Corporate Directives
- Unincorporated companies
- Company with share capital
- Rights, obligations and cooperation between management and control bodies
- European Joint Stock Companies, Holding SE and European Economic Interest Groupings
- Corporate groups and holdings
- Foreign companies and foreign subsidiaries in legal business practice
- The legal aspects of public services
- Market law in the Slovenian legal system
- The regulation of competition (restriction of competition, unfair competition, unauthorized speculation, competition protection, sanctions)
- The acquisition and transfer of industrial property rights and copyrights
- The economic settlement of disputes
- E-commerce
- Formal legal sources:
- ZGD – 1
- ZIL – 1 UPB3 – 1D
- ZASP UPB3
- ZArbit
- ZMCGZ
- ZARSS
Study Literature
Recommended reading:
Code of Corporate Governance.
Recommendations for Audit Committees.
Objectives and competences
General competencies:
- Understand the development of commercial law with a special emphasis on autonomous commercial law
- The ability to respond promptly and professionally, and to correctly solve problems arising in the business practice of a particular economic entity
Subject-specific competences:
- The ability to prepare legal solutions for individual specific problems
- Understanding and responsiveness in the process of protecting intellectual property rights and settling business conflicts.
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding:
- The student will be able to choose the correct answer to problems encountered during in-company placement;
- Students learn the importance of using the sources of commercial law and of preparing the content of provisions in acts concerning the relationship between the management and control bodies.
Learning and teaching methods
Analysis of the results of individual work in relation to the seminar paper.
Assessment
Written exam (case study + essay questions) : 70 %
A correctly prepared and argued seminar paper : 30 %
Lecturer’s references
Selected bibliografical units:
Distinguished professor of the University of Ljubljana for Commercial Law, International Commercial Law, Contract Law and Industrial Property Law. He was editor and co-author of comments of: The Protection of Inventions, Technical Improvements and Distinctive Signs Act (1982) and the Industrial Property Act (1992), co-author of the Commentary on the Companies Act (1993, 2002 and 2007) and the author of the Commentary on the Industrial Property Act (2003, 1189 pages).
He was President of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce from 1992 to 2012.
Since 1 January 2013, he has been the Honorary President of the PA in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. As the arbiter, he is on the list of many foreign institutional arbitrations, for example Austria, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, etc.; he is also a member of the Austrian and Swiss Arbitration Association.