BKP_OPRO Business law

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zdeněk Houdek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Michal Petr, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Mgr. Radek Ruban, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Jindřiška Šedová, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ing. Filip Hampl, Ph.D., LL.M. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Michal Petr, Ph.D.
Department of Law – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Mgr. Ing. Petra Dvořáková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Law – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Timetable
Sat 26. 2. 8:00–11:50 P106, Fri 11. 3. 12:00–15:50 P201, Fri 8. 4. 16:00–19:50 P201
Prerequisites
The course builds on the basic knowledge and skills in the area of:
- theory of law,
- private law (New Civil Code),
- company organization.
Students get the above mentioned knowledge in the following courses: Introduction to Law and Corporate Economics.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main goal of this course is to acquaint the students with fundamental changes in the area of private law resulting from the adoption of the new Civil Code.
Attention will be focused on the systematization of the new legal regulation of legal entities and their classification, which is the legal fundament for the regulation of business corporations and entrepreneurship within the Act on Business Corporations.
Attention will also be paid to the legal regulation of business, the status of entrepreneurs and their behavior.
Special emphasis will be placed on the legal regulation of commercial obligations.Attention will also be paid to the legal regulation of business, the status of entrepreneurs and their behavior.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able:

- to explain the basic principles and institutes of private law and their use in the application of law.
- to define the status of natural and legal persons.
- to explain the general legal regulation of business.
- to explain the basic legal rules of individual forms of business corporations.
- to analyze legal rules of ownership rights application by business corporation partners;
- to understand the problems of the liability of shareholders for the obligations of the company and the legal claims of the company's creditors.
- to exxplain the legal regulation of representation of companies.
- to use the basic legal rules for contractual business relations, in particular for the purchase contract, the order contract, the contract for the acquisition of goods and the contract for the sale of goods.
Syllabus
  • Tutorials:
  • 1. Business Corporations I.
  • - General regulation of business corporations according to the Act on Business Corporations.
  • - Classification of business corporations.
  • 2. Business Corporations II.
  • Comparison (differences) of unlimited liability company (v.o.s. CZ), limited partnership company (k.s. CZ), limited liability company (s.r.o. CZ), joint stock company (a.s. in CZ):
  • - preconditions for creation of business corporations;
  • - property owned by corporation (contribution, registered capital, share in business, corporate assets and liabilities and their functions);
  • - vital preconditions for creation and incorporation of a business corporation, compulsory bodies and their power;
  • - dissolution, extinction of a corporation; dissolution of a corporation with liquidation, dissolution of a corporation without liquidation.
  • 3. Business Corporations III
  • Comparison (differences) of unlimited liability company (v.o.s. CZ), limited partnership company (k.s. CZ), limited liability company (s.r.o. CZ), joint-stock company (a.s. in CZ):
  • - risks undertaken by and responsibility of authorised representatives, a presumption of liability, circumstances excluding liability, authorized representatives´ liability, competition ban, due diligence, managerial contract;
  • - rights and responsibilities of members, their participation in company´s management, minority rights, settlement among members due to cessation of participation in a company;
  • - members´ liability, property liability of a business organization.
  • 4. Conversion of business organization.
  • - Company division.
  • - Change in a legal form of a company.
  • - Merger.
  • - Holding company.
  • 5. Bankruptcy and manners of its resolution.
  • In addition, interactive study texts are available for teaching the subject, which can be found on the web portal (pravoesf.econ.muni.cz): Commercial Law I., Corporate Law, Civil Law, Fundamentals of Law and European Law. The above texts explain the basic legal institutes, the knowledge of which is expected to understand the problems of the course Commercial Law.
  • In case you are interested in more detailed legal information, you can use the legal information system (ASPI), which is accessible in computer classrooms and in the ESF library. In this case, the input is provided via the ASPI icon / on the desktop of the computer. In addition, all ESF students have the possibility to use remote access to   ASPI. In this case, ASPI is available on the remote desktop over the Internet. A detailed description of how to log in is posted on the main website of the Faculty of Economics and Administration.
Literature
    required literature
  • ŠTENGLOVÁ, Ivana, Jan DĚDIČ and Miloš TOMSA. Základy obchodního práva : vysokoškolská učebnice. 2. aktualizované a rozší. Praha: Leges, 2019, 475 stran. ISBN 9788075023148. info
  • RUBAN, Radek, Jaromír KOŽIAK and Zdeněk HOUDEK. Cvičebnice korporátního práva. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2018, 205 pp. Učebnice č. 541. ISBN 978-80-210-9004-0. info
    recommended literature
  • Zákon č.89/2012 Sb., občanský zákoník, v pozdějším znění
  • Zákon č.90/2012 Sb., zákon o obchodních korporacích, v pozdějším znění
  • Zákon č. 455/1991 Sb., o živnostenském podnikání, v pozdějším znění
  • RONOVSKÁ, Kateřina, Eva DOBROVOLNÁ and Petr LAVICKÝ. Úvod do soukromého práva - zvláštní část. Brno: Česká společnost pro civilní právo procesní, 2017, 126 pp. Řada učebních skript. ISBN 978-80-88248-01-9. info
  • DVOŘÁK, Jan, Jiří ŠVESTKA and Michaela ZUKLÍNOVÁ. Občanské právo hmotné. 2., aktualizované a doplně. Praha: Wolters Kluwer Česká republika, 2016, 435 stran. ISBN 9788075521873. info
  • POKORNÁ, Jarmila, Jaromír KOŽIAK, Milan PEKÁREK, Eva TOMÁŠKOVÁ and Alena KERLINOVÁ. Obchodní společnosti a družstva. Vyd. 1. V Praze: C.H. Beck, 2014, xxx, 414. ISBN 9788074004759. info
Teaching methods
Tutorials (3x), readings, person-to-person tuition, homework, data mining.
Assessment methods
Teaching takes place in a present form of study.
The course is completed by a written exam. The student can take the exam if he/she submits the prepared POT (tutor-corrected work) in the required scope and structure. More detailed information will be given in the Study Instructions (see Study materials of the course).
Caution: "Any copying, recording or leaking tests, use of unauthorized tools, aids and communication devices, or other disruptions of objectivity of exams will be considered non-compliance with the conditions for course completion as well as a severe violation of the study rules. Consequently, the teacher will finish the exam by awarding grade "F" in the Information System, and the Dean will initiate disciplinary proceedings that may result in study termination."
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: tutorial 12 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2022, recent)
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