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Business Legal Documentation. Commercial Arbitration and Mediation.

Code: 43474 ECTS Credits: 9
2025/2026
Degree Type Year
Enterprise Law OB 0

Contact

Name:
Monica Perna Hernandez
Email:
monica.perna@uab.cat

Teachers

Eduardo Bautista Blazquez
Eliseo Sierra Noguero

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

There are no previous requirements.


Objectives and Contextualisation

To assume specialized knowledge in commercial legal documentation and commercial arbitration and mediation.

 


Competences

  • Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Integrate knowledge of the law and of negotiation to make judgments in the business context.
  • Seek out information in the scientific literature using appropriate channels, and use this information to formulate and contextualise a research topic in business law.
  • Seek out, interpret and apply legal provisions related to tax, employment or penal matters within corporate activity, and any others in which a legal solution is needed for situations arising in the business context.
  • Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  • Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
  • Work in a team to create synergies in the workplace, in a coordinated, cooperative fashion.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  2. Describe the workings of commercial arbitration and the main legal provisions governing it.
  3. Explain the key elements of law on compulsory account books, in the light of accounting plans, both general and for small and medium-sized enterprises.
  4. Explain the meaning and usefulness of audit reports.
  5. Interrelate legal principles and negotiation techniques to assess commercial documentation and arbitration processes in business.
  6. Provide a fair, effective response to practical cases in business law, bankruptcy law and competition law.
  7. Seek out information in the scientific literature using appropriate channels, and use this information to formulate and contextualise a research topic in business law.
  8. Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  9. Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
  10. Work in a team to create synergies in the workplace, in a coordinated, cooperative fashion.

Content

Commercial legal documentation

The general content of the subject aims to familiarize students with some of the documents used in the professional practice of company law. Given the great breadth of the subject, it will necessarily be a very selective content on issues of a commercial nature, such as company law, commercial contracts, competition law, among others.

 

Commercial arbitration and mediation

 Lesson 1. Commercial and investment arbitration

1. Concepts.

2. National and international legal regime.

3. Advantages and disadvantages of arbitration.

4. National and international commercial and investment arbitration bodies.

5. Special arbitrations by reason of the matter

 

Lesson 2. The arbitration agreement or arbitration agreement

1. Content and formality of the arbitration agreement.

2. Principle of separability of the arbitration agreement.

3. Principle of competence-competence.

4. Effects of the arbitration agreement.

 

Lesson 3. Arbitrators and arbitration institutions

1. Ad hoc arbitration.

2. Institutional arbitration.

3. Arbitration of law and substantive rules applicable to the merits of the dispute.

4. Equity arbitration.

5. Appointment of the arbitrator. Capacity. Recusal.

6. Civil liability of arbitrators.

7. Provision of funds

 

Lesson 4. Substantiation of the arbitration procedure. Expenses and costs.

1. Principles of the arbitration procedure.

2. Procedure and procedural schedule.

3. Place and language of arbitration.

4. Initiation of arbitration proceedings.

5. Demand and answer.

6. Written and oral hearings and performances.

7. Expertise.

8. Precautionary measures.

9. Arbitration expenses and costs.

 

Lesson 5. The arbitral award andits execution. Cancellation and revision of the award.

1. Transaction without award and the award accepted.

2. Form and content of the award.

3. The motivation of the award.

4. Date and place of the award. Your notification.

5. Interpretation and correction of the award. Additional praise.

6. Effects of the arbitral award.

7. Action for annulment of the award. Causes. The review appeal.

8. Recognition and execution of the award.

 

Lesson 6. Autocompositive methods of extrajudicial resolution.

1. Commercial mediation.

2. Other methods of self-composition.

 

Commercial Legal Documentation

 
Topic 1. Commercial Contracts and Their General Provisions. Legal Regime.
1. The Contract: The Source of Rights and Obligations between the Parties. The Principle of Free Will and Its Limits.
2. Preliminary Agreements and Their Legal Effectiveness. The Memorandum of Understanding (Letter of Intent).
3. Form and Evidence of the Contract. Interpretation of the Contract.
4. Breach and Termination of Contract.
5. Identification of Unfair Contract Terms.
6. Special Regimes of Commercial Contracts. Rome I Regulation on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations. Rome II Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations.
7. Soft Law Rules of International Commercial Contracts.
 
Topic 2. Contract Law: The Main International Commercial Contracts.
1. International Trade and International Contracting. UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts. The International Sales Contract. INCOTERMS 2020.
2. Business Partnerships. Types of Collaboration Contracts.
3. Commission Contracts. Commercial Concession or Distribution Contracts versus Agency Contracts.
4. Franchise Contracts.
5. Business Purchase and Sale Contracts.
6. Contracts between Companies and the State. Strategic Joint Investment Alliances. Contracting with the Public Sector.
 
Topic 3. Session III: Corporate Law. Mergers and Acquisitions, M&A
1. Corporate Structural Modifications.
2. Business Mergers and Acquisitions.
3. Business Associations.
4. Grouping Agreements between Companies.
5. Temporary Unions. Joint Ventures.
6. Businesses and the Collaborative Economy.
 
Topic 4. Session IV: Business Management of E-Commerce and Data Protection.
1. E-Commerce. E-Procurement and Information Society Services.
2. Formation and Evidence of E-Contracts.
3. E-Consumer Contracts versus E-Commercial Contracts.
4. Digital Contracting. Digital Platforms and the Provision of Services.
5. The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Commercial Contracting.
6. The Relevance of Business Data Protection.
 
Topic 5. Session V: The Incorporation of Preventive Action. Compliance in Business.
1. Documentary Corporate Responsibility.
2. Due Diligence and Business Preventive Action.
3. Applicability of Business Compliance Programs
 
Topic 6. Session V: Bankruptcy Law. Opportunity or Corporate Dissolution.
1. Pre-Bankruptcy Institutions.
2. Bankruptcy proceedings 3. Bankruptcy agreement
 
Topic 7. Session VI Documentation on labor and occupational risk prevention regulations.
1. Labor procedures. a. Procedural characteristics of the LRJS (Labor Law Law): The diversity of labor procedures; b. Employment relationships between employer and employee: Self-employed workers and dependent workers. Characteristics.
2. Occupational risk prevention: Its interconnection with different substantive legal systems; a. Workplace accidents: Their definition, scope, and controversy. b. Documentation on prevention matters: Its structuring and legal basis; c. Specialized protections for workers in occupational risk prevention: i. Underage workers; ii. Particularly sensitive workers; iii. Pregnant workers; iv. Gender plans.
3. Due diligence and its relationship with occupational risk prevention: An overview of the legal, financial, operational, and commercial structure to understand business management in prevention matters.

* Any changes regarding this content will be notified at the beginning of the course.


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Classroom lectures 56 2.24 2, 5, 8, 1, 9, 10
Type: Supervised      
Resolution of exercises 10 0.4 7, 2, 5, 8, 1, 10
Type: Autonomous      
Personal study 67.5 2.7 7, 2, 5, 8, 1, 10

Arbitration and commercial mediation

For each session the teacher will make available the compulsory reading materials and the practices to be carried out individually or in groups. It will proceed to the exposition of the matter, pausing to carry out the practices.

As a general rule, at the end of each session, the student or group of students must send the teacher the practices and cases resolved that day through the virtual campus.

 

Commercial legal documentation

During each session the presentation will be made and a debate will be opened. It will also specify which are the compulsory reading materials for the rest of the students.

Each session will consist of a dossier of documents that will be made available in advance of the session for student review and analysis. During the sessions, a presentation will be made regarding the legal concept under study and analysis, enabling the proposed learning activities for the specific topic to be developed. Various reflections and suggested aspects will be offered to students, ranging from case study analysis, debates, presentations, and simulations.
 

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
Assignments 30% 20 0.8 7, 2, 5, 9, 10
Attendace and active participation in class 20% 67.5 2.7 1
Theory and practical tests 50% 4 0.16 2, 4, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9

In relation to Arbitration and commercial mediation, the final exam counts 50%. The exam has 2 parts:

 Theoretical examination of 40 true / false test questions.

- The correct answers add 1 point. The incorrect ones subtract 0.5 points. Blank answers subtract 0.5 pts.

- To take into account the practical case exam and the practicals, the student must obtain a minimum of 4 in this theoretical exam.

Practical case exam. It consists of locating legislation and jurisprudence to answer the questions raised in the practical case. The student works autonomously and has a period (24-48 hours) for the resolution and sending the answer to the teacher of the proposed scenario.

 Practices (30%), class active participation (20%).

 In relation to Commercial legal documentation, the exam must be prepared with the compulsory reading materials and will consist of a practical case of writing, analyzing or interpreting commercial legal documentation, in accordance with the teacher's instructions.

Practices (30%), class participation (20%).

 REVIEW AND REEVALUATION

Once the evaluation has been communicated, a review may be requested so that the Professor explains to the student the applied criteria (art. 114.3 UAB academic regulations), without prejudice to the student's rights to challenge the grade.

 The date of the final exam of the subject is scheduled in the exam calendar of the Faculty.

 The scheduling of the evaluation tests cannot be modified, unless there is an exceptional and duly justified reason why an evaluation act cannot be carried out. In this case, the people responsible for the degrees, after consulting the teachers and the affected students, will propose a new schedule within the corresponding school period (art. 115.1 Calendar of evaluation activities, UAB Academic Regulations)

 To pass the course, the student must have participated inthe three evaluation activities and have obtained at least a 3.5 in the final exam. To take the final exam, it is necessary to prove attendance to 90% of the classes.

 Only the reevaluation of the test is possible (50%). The continuous assessment activities cannot be reevaluated, since their meaning is to check the knowledge progressively acquired throughout the course, notwithstanding that in case of illness or other eventualities an alternative solution may be found for the specifically affected student.

 To retake the exam, student must have obtained at least a 3 in each of the three evaluation activities. Students who take the reevaluation exam may obtain a maximum grade of 7 in the subject.


Bibliography

Commercial arbitration and mediation 

  • ALONSO PUIG, José María y BONNIN REYNÉS, Víctor., Memento práctico-arbitraje 2020-2021, Ed. Levebre, Madrid, 2020.
  • BARONA VILAR, Silvia (coord.), Mediación en asuntos civiles y mercantiles en España: tras la aprobación de la Ley 5/2012, de 6 de julio, de mediación en asuntos civiles y mercantiles, Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia, 2013.
  • BLANCO GARCÍA, Ana Isabel, Árbitro y partes. Los peligros y entresijos de la práctica del arbitraje. Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia, 2020.
  • COSTA MESTANZA, M., El Arbitraje para empresarios y abogados jóvenes paso a paso, Epraxis, Madrid, 2013.
  • ESPLUGUES MOTA, Carlos., Tratado de inversiones extranjeras y arbitraje de inversiones en Iberoamérica, Tirant lo Blanch, 2020.
  • GARCÍA VILLALUENGA, Leticia y otros autores (codirs.), Mediación, arbitraje y resolución extrajudicial de conflictos en el siglo XXI. 2 tomos, Cátedra Euroamericana de protección jurídica de los consumidores, Cátedra CRV de Derecho e Innovación, Gobierno de Cantabria, Madrid, 2010.
  • GONZÁLEZ MALABIA, Sergio, Tribunales y arbitraje: diálogo, concurrencia, colaboración y control, Tirant lo Blanch, 2021.
  • GONZÁLEZ PILLADO, Esther, Arbitraje y mediación en materia de consumo, Tecnos, Madrid, 2012.
  • MARTÍN HITA, Luis.(coord.), Comentarios a la Ley de mediación en asuntos civiles y mercantiles, Epraxis, Las Rozas de Madrid, 2013.
  • SÁEZ, Ignacio, DORREGO, Alberto (Dirs.), Arbitraje y mediación: problemas actuales, retos y oportunidades, Lex Nova, Valladolid, 2013.
  • PÉREZ-LUÑO, Enrique César., La reforma del arbitraje de 2011: presupuestos, antecedentes y alcance, Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia, 2013.
  • PRATS ALBENTOSA, Lorenzo (coord.), Comentarios a la Ley de arbitraje, La Ley, Madrid, 2013.
  • SÁNCHEZ DE ROJAS DÍAZ, Emilio y PRADO HIGUERA, Cristina, Negociación y mediación para la resolución de conflictos. Una aproximación con estudios de caso, Dykinson, Madrid, 2021.
  • TALERO RUEDA, Santiago, Arbitraje comercial internacional. Instituciones básicas y Derecho aplicable, 2ª ed., Tirant lo Blanch, 2022.
  • VÁZQUEZ ALBERT, Daniel, y TUSQUETS, Francisco. (dirs.), El arbitraje: nueva regulación y práctica arbitral, Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia, 2013.
  • VÁZQUEZ DE CASTRO, Eduardo. (ed.). Prácticum Mediación, Aranzadi, Madrid, 2015.

Commercial legal documentation

Irrespective of recommending specific books, handbooks of commercial law and labor issues in the context of business, including the following:are recommended as follows:

  • BERCOVITZ RODRÍGUEZ-CANO, A., (Dir.); CALZADA CONDE, María Ángeles y Del BARRIO PÉREZ, Ángela, (Coords.) y otrosautores, Contratos mercantiles, 6ª ed. ThomsonReuters Aranzadi, S.A.U., Madrid, 2017.
  • BROSETA PONT, M. y MARTÍNEZ SANZ, F., Manual de Derecho mercantil, Vol.II, Tecnos, Madrid, última edición.
  • CHULIÁ VICENT, E., BELTRÁN, Teresa, Los contratos mercantiles, J.M. 3ª ed., Bosch, Barcelona, 2005.
  • CUÑAT EDO, V., MASSAGUER, J., ALONSO ESPINOSA, F.J., GALLEGO SÁNCHEZ, Esperanza, (Dirs.), PETIT LAVALL, Mª Victoria (Coord.) y otros autores, Estudios de Derecho Mercantil Liber Amicorum profesor Dr. Francisco Vicent Chulià, Estudios de derecho mercantil liber amicorum profesor Dr. Francisco Vicent Chulià, Departamento de Derecho Mercantil “Manuel Broseta Pont”, Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia, 2013.
  • ESPLUGUES MOTA, C.A., “Los principios aplicables a los contratos mercantiles en materia internacional elaborados por el instituto internacional para la unificación del derecho privado (UNIDROIT)”, en Revista Española de Derecho Internacional, Vol. 45, No. 2, 1993, pp. 611-615.
  • ESTEBAN DE LA ROSA, F., La Joint Venture en el comercio internacional, Comares, Granada, 1999.
  • FERNÁNDEZ ROZAS, J.C., ARENAS GARCÍA, R., y DE MIGUEL ASENSIO, P., Derecho de los Negocios Internacionales, Madrid, Iustel, última edición, 2010.
  • GUARDIOLA SACARRERA, E.; Los contratos de colaboración en el comercio internacional, Bosch, Barcelona, 1998.
  • JIMÉNEZ SÁNCHEZ, G. y DÍAZ MORENO, A. (dirs.), Derecho mercantil  Vol.II, Barcelona-Madrid-São Paulo, Marcial Pons, última edición.
  • JIMÉNEZ SÁNCHEZ, G.J., DÍAZ MORENO, A. (Dirs.); Lecciones de Derecho Mercantil II, 27ª ed., Marcial Pons, Barcelona-Madrid-São Paulo, 2024.
  • LEÓN ROBAYO, E.I., LaNueva Lex mercatoria en el derecho latinoamericano de contratos, Universidad de Rosario, Tirant lo Blanc Bogotá, 2019.
  • MARTÍNEZ GALLEGO, E.M., La Formación del Contrato a través de la Oferta y la Aceptación, Marcial Pons, Barcelona-Madrid, 2000.
  • MEDINA DE LEMUS, M., Contratos de comercio exterior: doctrina y formularios, 3ª ed. Dikynson S.L., Madrid, 2007.
  • MENÉNDEZ MENÉNDEZ, A., y ROJO FERNÁNDEZ-RIO, A., (Dirs.) y otros autores: Lecciones de Derecho Mercantil Volumen II - Contratos mercantiles, 22ª ed., Thomson Reuters Editorial Aranzadi, SA, Madrid, 2020.
  • MENÉNDEZ, A. y ROJO, A. (dirs.), Lecciones de Derecho mercantil, Vol.II, última edición, Cizur Menor, Thomson Reuters Civitas, última edición.
  • PEÑA NOSSA, L., De los Contratos mercantiles: Nacionales e internacionales, 5ªed. ECOE, Colombia, 2014.
  • PILOÑETA ALONSO, L.M., Commercial Contracts, Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia, 2020.
  • PULGAR, JUANA (Dir.), Manual de Derecho concursal, 4ª ed., La Ley, 2022.
  • SÁNCHEZ CALERO, F., Instituciones de Derecho mercantil, Vol.II, Aranzadi, Cizur Menor, 2015.
  • SIERRA NOGUERO, E.; Tomo XXXIII Esquemas de Derecho de Contratos Mercantiles, 5ª ed., Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia, 2022.
  • UNCETA LABORDA, M., “Principios de Unidroit e ilicitud del contrato internacional”, en Cuadernos de derecho transnacional, Vol.5, Nº.2, 2013, pp.620-628.
  • VIZCAYA CARRILLO, N., Legislación y jurisdicción de los contratos mercantiles electrónicos, Editorial Académica Española, Alemania, 2013.
  • AA.VV.; Protocolos sobre Prevención de riesgos Laborales,Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia, 2009 (on line).
  • AA.VV.; Relaciones Laborales, 5ª ed. Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia, 2014 (on line).
  • GARCÍA RUBIO, M.A., et.al., Los aspectos laborales de la ley de igualdad, Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia, 2007 (on line).
  • CAMPS RUIZ, L.M., La participación de los trabajadores en la prevención de riesgos laborales, Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia, 2009 (on line).
  • GARRIGUES GIMÉNEZ, A., et.al., Manual de Derecho de la Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia 2015 (on line).

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