Mercantile Law I
Code: 102271 ECTS Credits: 9| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500786 Law | OB | 2 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Jorge Miquel Rodríguez
- Email:
- jorge.miquel@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
Teachers
- Francisco Mercadal Vidal
- Carles Gorriz Lopez
- Ramón Morral Soldevila
- Luis Pedrayes Gullon
- Jose Vicente Morant Gregori
- Concepcion Blazquez Gimenez
- Angel Lafoz Torres
- Joan Carles Codina Campaña
- Eduardo Bautista Blazquez
- Oriol Puig Bordas
Prerequisites
There are no previous requirements.
LAW
Group 1 Theory JORGE MIQUEL RODRIGUEZ (spanish)
SeminarS in spanish
Grup 2 Theory FRANCISCO MERCADAL VIDAL (spanish)
Seminars in spanish
Grup 51 Theory RAMON MORRAL SOLDEVILA (spanish)
Seminars in spanish
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT + LAW
Grup 70 Theory CARLES GÓRRIZ LÓPEZ (catalan)
Seminars in catalan
Objectives and Contextualisation
To reach a good knowledge of the principal institutions of Commercial law related to its legal sources, the businessperson, the industrial property, anti-trust and unfair competition law and corporate enterprises.
Competences
- Demonstrating a sensible and critical reasoning: analysis, synthesis, conclusions.
- Efficiently managing information, being capable of assimilating a considerable volume of data in a limited amount of time.
- Identifying, assessing and putting into practice changes in jurisprudence.
- Identifying, knowing and applying the basic and general principles of the legal system.
- Managing bibliographic and documentary resources: databases, browsing, etc.
- Memorising and utilising legal terminology.
- Presenting in front of an audience the problems of a concrete law suit, the applicable legal regulations, and the most consistent solutions.
- Searching, interpreting and applying legal standards, arguing every case.
Learning Outcomes
- Contextualising the Commercial Law within the legal system, its role and its usefulness in the business traffic.
- Critically distinguishing the historical trajectory in the approval of commercial standards and in the training of trade uses, and being ready to anticipate alternative legal solutions.
- Demonstrating a sensible and critical reasoning: analysis, synthesis, conclusions.
- Demonstrating the acquisition of new knowledge from the learning of the main principles and standards of Commercial Law.
- Efficiently managing information, being capable of assimilating a considerable volume of data in a limited amount of time.
- Managing bibliographic and documentary resources: databases, browsing, etc.
- Providing a fair and efficient response to the practical cases proposed from the acquired knowledge.
- Publicly presenting practical cases and its possible legal solutions.
- Summarising the basic principles of jurisprudence in the main aspects relatives to the economic and business activity.
Content
Concept, historical evolution and sources of commercial law.
The individual entrepreneur. Business accountancy. The Business Registry. The commercial establishment.
Industrial property rights on patents and other industrial inventions and on trademarks and other distinctive signs
Competition law: Antitrust law and unfair competition law.
General theory of company law
The general partnership and the simple limited liability partnership.
Capital companies: Basic aspects. Procedures of foundation. Stakes and shares. Obligations The general meeting and the managing. Financial statements. Amendments to the by- laws. Separation and exclusion of partners and shareholders. Structural changes in commercial companies. The dissolution and liquidation of the commercial companies.
Other commercial companies and Groups of companies.
Methodology
For the Business Administration and Law degree, the subject is lectured at the first semester
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 seminars, where students, individually or in small groups, analyze and solve along with the professor practical cases. 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.
2. 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.
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 | 39 | 1.56 | 3, 8, 5, 6 |
| Seminars (practical cases, comments, debates, simulation of trials...) | 19.5 | 0.78 | 1, 4, 3, 2, 8, 5, 6, 7, 9 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Assessment | 5 | 0.2 | 1 |
| Tasks and study out the class | 156.5 | 6.26 | 1, 4, 3, 2, 8, 5, 6, 7, 9 |
Assessment
For each group, the specific date or the week of carrying out the evaluable activities will be published before the beginning of the teaching, notwithstanding the fact that, exceptionally and due to reasons of force majeure, these may, with prior notice and sufficiently in advance, be modified.
The mark of the practices and the participation in the class will be made public before the final exam.
To pass the subject, the student must have obtained a minimum mark of 5 in the average mark of the final exam and the other evaluation activities with a minimum mark of 4 in each of them.
Therefore, students who do no get a minimum mark of 4 in the average of the different activities made in seminars will fail the subject
Students who do not pass the subject, have right to retake the final exam.
Only the final exam will be reevaluated. No mimimm mark is required to take the reevaluation exam
Seminars and assignments won't be object of reavaluation
Marks obtained in seminars will be taken in account to calculate the final mark, in evaluation and also in reevaluation
Seminar activities will be at lieast 3. Their weight on the final mark will be 50% of the final mark of the subject. These activities can be for example jurisprudence comments, drafting legal documents (like articles of association of companies or challenging general assembly decisions), study of new legislation or resolution of practical cases
A student who cheats or try to cheat an exam will have a 0 as a mark. A Student who submits a paper o practical in which there is evidence of plagiarism will have a 0 as a mark and will receive a warning. In case of repetition, the students will fail the subject.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final exam | 50% | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 4, 3, 2, 8, 5, 6, 7, 9 |
Bibliography
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Broseta Pont, Manuel - Martínez Sanz, Fernando., Manual de Derecho mercantil, vol. I, Madrid, Tecnos.
Jiménez Sánchez, Guillermo - Díaz Moreno, Alberto (dirs.), Derecho mercantil I, Barcelona-Madrid-São Paulo, Marcial Pons
Menéndez, Aurelio - Rojo, Angel (dirs.), Lecciones de Derecho mercantil, vol. I, Cizur Menor, Thomson Reuters Civitas (Available at the UAB digital library).
Sánchez Calero, Fernando, Sánchez-Calero, Juan, Instituciones de Derecho mercantil, vol. I, Cizur Menor, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi. (Available at the UAB digital library).
Vicent Chulià, Francisco.: Introducción al Derecho mercantil, última edició, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanc (Available at the UAB digital library)
Further bibliography will be recommended specifically
Software
Not required any specifically