European business and company law
Course type
Study programme and level
Language
Lectures | Seminar | Tutorial | Druge oblike študija | Individual Work | ECTS |
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Study programme and level | Study field | Academic year | Semester |
Law 2nd degree | 1, 2 | 1, 2 |
Course Type
Elective
Workload | Lectures (h/semester) | Seminar
(h/semester) |
Tutorial
(h/semester) |
Individual Work (h/semester) | ECTS |
Lecturer
prof. dr. Verica Trstenjak
Language
English
Prerequisites
Enrolment in the current year of study.
Content (Syllabus outline)
- General information on the importance, methods and objectives of the unification of the European Company Law
- Legal framework of legal persons in the EU
- Company Law and Business Law in the EU
- Legal entities in EU Law
- Societas Europaea
- General and development
- Regulation on the Statute for a European Company (SE)
- The notion and main characteristics
- Establishment and termination of SE
- Bodies of SE
- Enforcement of the Regulation and regulation of other fields
- European Economic Interest Grouping
- European Cooperative Society
- European Association and Foundation
- European Private Company
- European Mutual Society
- Societas Europaea
- Specific Directives in the field of Company and Business Law (e.g. on publicity, on the minimum capital, on mergers, one-man businesses, on balance sheet, on takeovers)
- Trust and its possible harmonization in the EU
- Analysis of the most important decisions of the CJEU (e.g. Centros C-217/97, Überseering C-208/00, Inspire art C-167/01, VALE C-378/10, Cartesio C-210/06, Commission/Spain C-338/06, Audiolux and others C-101/08, Idryma Typou C-81/09)
Study Literature
Trstenjak, V./Brkan, M: Pravo EU: Ustavno, procesno in gospdoarsko pravo EU, GV Zalozba, 2012
Trstenjak,V./Kocbek.M: Evropsko zasebno pravo, Evropsko pravo gospodarskih družb, GV Založba, Ljubljana, 2004;
Trstenjak,V.: Die Auslegung privatrechtlicher Richtlinien durch den EuGH: ein Rechtsprechungsbericht unter Berücksichtigung des Common Frame of Reference, Zeitschrift für europäisches Privatrecht. Let. 15 (2007), št. 1, str. 145-160;
Trstenjak,V.: Evropska delniška družba, Pravna praksa, 39-40/2001, str. 7-10;
Trstenjak,V.: Pravne osebe v EU, Pravnik, 9-10/2002, str. 493-507;
Trstenjak,V.: Temeljno o trustu, Podjetje in delo, št. 4/1995, str. 392 – 406;
Schulze,R. (ur.), Common Frame of Reference and Existing EC Contract Law, Sellier, 2008;
Grundmann, S., European Company Law: Organization, Finance and Capital Markets, Intersentia, 2012;
Lenoire, N., Societas Europaea (SE) in Europe – A Promissing Start and an Option with Good Prospects, 4 Utrecht L. Review. 13 (2008);
Ringe, W-G., Sparking Regulatory Competition in European Company Law – The Impact of the Centros Line of Case-Law and its Concept of ‘Abuse of Law’, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2/2009;
Grundmann, S., Europäisches Gesellschaftsrecht, C.F. Müller, 2011;
Hopt, K. / Davies, P. / Nowark. R. / Solinge, G.: Corporate Boards in European Law, A Comparative Analysis, Oxford, 2014;
Trust law – gradivo iz ZeuP (materials from ZEuP), 1999, S. 745-753;
Sodbe Sodisca EU (Case Law of the CJEU).
Objectives and competences
A student will get acquainted with the most significant areas of European Business and Company Law through the study and analysis of cases from practice, in particular with the analysis of judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in Luxembourg.
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding:
The acquisition of knowledge in the field of European Business and Company Law, which will help students in understanding and solving everyday problems in this field.
Learning and teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment
Written examination
Lecturer’s references
See readings.