Mercantile Law
Code: 100488 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2500258 Labour Relations | FB | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Eliseo Sierra Noguero
- Email:
- eliseo.sierra@uab.cat
Teachers
- Maria Isabel Martinez Jimenez
- Luis Pedrayes Gullon
- José Vicente Morant Gregori
- Teodoro Luis Lopez-Cuesta Fernandez
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
There are no previous requirements
The teaching of the subject will be taught taking into account the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals
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
- Analysing the legal status of the entrepreneur and their assistants, solving problems related to Mercantile Registry and accounting.
- Analysing the matters and solving labour problems by applying the legislation and jurisprudential criteria.
- Identifying the concept and sources of the Commercial Law
- Memorising the regulations and institutions of the main legal areas and the relationships between the social processes.
- Organising and managing the available time.
- 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.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Master classes | 22 | 0.88 | 1, 3 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Exercises (practices and cases, comments, debates, simulation of trials...) | 22 | 0.88 | 4, 5, 6 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Tasks and study out the class | 73.5 | 2.94 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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.
Assessment
Continous 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 |
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 students will be evaluated if they have completed a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 parts of the total qualification of the subject. If the value of the activities carried out does not reach this threshold, the teacher of the subject can consider the student as not evaluable.
In the case of a single assessment, on the official day the students will have to deliver 5 practices with a value of 10% each, previously published, and take an exam lasting two hours and with a value of 50%. The conditions for access to the revaluation are to have obtained a minimum grade of 3.5 in the exam and a 3 in each of the practices. In case of reassessment, the exam will also be held on the official date and will also last for two hours. The assessment and reassessment exam is different from the continuous assessment to ensure that the students have achieved the subject's skills. Students who retake the exam may obtain a maximum grade of 7.
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 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).
Bibliography
RECOMMENDED HANDBOOKS
Jiménez Sánchez, Guillermo - Díaz Moreno, Alberto, Lecciones de Derecho mercantil, last edition, Madrid, Tecnos.
Sánchez Calero, Fernando, Principios de Derecho Mercantil, 2 vols, last edition, Cizur Menor, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi.
Sierra Noguero, Eliseo, Curso de Derecho Mercantil, last edition, Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions de la UAB.
Software
The subject does not require any specific software.
Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Spanish | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 2 | Spanish | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 51 | Spanish | second semester | afternoon |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Spanish | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 2 | Spanish | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 51 | Spanish | second semester | afternoon |