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2021/2022

Mercantile Law

Code: 100488 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2500258 Labour Relations FB 1 2
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Eliseo Sierra Noguero
Email:
Eliseo.Sierra@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
No
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
Yes

Prerequisites

There are no previous requirements

Group 1. Profs. Mónica Perna and Eva Payet. Spanish

Group 2. Professor to determine. Spanish or Catalan

Group 51. Profs. Maria del Carmen Rodríguez and José Vicente Morant. Spanish

Objectives and Contextualisation

To reach a good knowledge of the principal institucions of commercial law.

Competences

  • Identify the foundations of the main legal and organisational areas in the field of human work.
  • Identifying, analysing and solving complex problems and situations from an (economic, historical, legal, psychological, and sociological) interdisciplinary perspective.
  • Organising and managing the available time.
  • Recognising the issues related to labour market, social security, and the implementation of legislation and jurisprudential criteria to the assumptions shown in practice.
  • Students must demonstrate they comprehend the relation between social processes and industrial relations dynamics.
  • Working autonomously.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analysing the legal status of the entrepreneur and their assistants, solving problems related to Mercantile Registry and accounting.
  2. Analysing the matters and solving labour problems by applying the legislation and jurisprudential criteria.
  3. Identifying the concept and sources of the Commercial Law
  4. Memorising the regulations and institutions of the main legal areas and the relationships between the social processes.
  5. Organising and managing the available time.
  6. Working autonomously.

Content

- Concept and sources of commercial law

- The entrepreneur.

- Competition law and protection of industrial property.

- Introduction to commercial companies. 

- The capital companies.

- Commercial contracts.

- Securities. 

- Bankrupcy law.

Methodology

Lecturers will put into practice the educational activities they deem appropriate in order to facilitate the study and learning of the student.

 The development of the teaching of the subject and of the learning of the student is based on the following formative activities:

 1. Guided activities: activities where the teacher develops the active part of the class.

It includes master classes where the student reaches the conceptual bases of the subject and its legal and regulatory framework and jurisprudential.

Also, the practical classes, where students, individually or in small groups, analyze and solve along with the professor practical cases.

 2. Supervised activities: activities that students will develop individually or in small groups, with the support of the lecturer, in order to prepare the evaluable practices,

such as discussion and resolution of cases, comments, debates, simulations of judgments, others.

 3. Autonomous activities: activities that students will develop autonomously. It includes among others the search and reading of bibliography,

norms and jurisprudence, study, preparation of practical cases.

 The proposed teaching methodology may undergo some modifications according to the restrictions imposed by the health authorities on on-campus courses.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Master classes 22.5 0.9 1, 3
Type: Supervised      
Exercises (practices and cases, comments, debates, simulation of trials...) 22.5 0.9 4, 5, 6
Type: Autonomous      
Tasks and study out the class 72.5 2.9 1, 3, 4, 5, 6

Assessment

 

The proposed evaluation activities may undergo some changes according to the restrictions imposed by the health authorities on on-campus courses.

For every single group, the dates of the evaluation activities will be announced at the beginning of the course in the Virtual Campus, even though, exceptionally and force majeure, these activities could, with advance notice in good time, be modified.

Qualification of the assignments and participation in class will be published before the final exam.

To pass the subject, student must have taken part in the three evaluation activities and to get a minimum mark of 3,5 at the final exam.

To be eligible to participate in the retake process, it is required to: 1) Do the final exam and do not pass it, and 2) have achieved an average grade in every one of the three evaluation activities not inferior to 3. Students who take the retake exam, will be a maximum grade of the subject is 7.

The proposed evaluation activities may undergo some changes according to the restrictions imposed by the health authorities on on-campus courses.

Irregularities in evaluation activities: In spite of other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, "in the case that the student makes any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation in the grade of an evaluation activity, it will be graded with a 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that can be instructed. In case of various irregularities occur in the evaluation of the same subject, the final grade of this subject will be 0". Section 10 of Article 116. Results of the evaluation. (UAB Academic Regulations).

 

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Active participation in lecturers 20% 22.5 0.9 2, 1, 3, 4
Assignments 30% 5 0.2 5, 6
Final exam 50% 5 0.2 2, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6

Bibliography

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Jiménez Sánchez, Guillermo - Díaz Moreno, Alberto, Lecciones de Derecho mercantil, última edición, Madrid, Tecnos.

Sánchez Calero, Fernando, Principios de Derecho Mercantil, vol. I, II, Cizur Menor, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi.

Sierra Noguero, Eliseo, Curso de Derecho Mercantil, séptima edición, 2020, Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions de la UAB.

Software

The subject does not require any specific software.