Commercial and Business Law, 18 credits
Affärsrätt, 18 hp
747G16
Main field of study
Commercial LawCourse level
First cycleCourse type
Single subject and programme courseExaminer
Christina NordinCourse coordinator
Christina NordinDirector of studies or equivalent
Christina NordinCourse offered for | Semester | Weeks | Language | Campus | ECV | |
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F7KAA | Bachelor´s Programme in Commercial and Business Law | 1 (Autumn 2018) | 201834-201903 | Swedish | Linköping, Valla | C |
Main field of study
Commercial LawCourse level
First cycleAdvancement level
G1XCourse offered for
- Bachelor´s Programme in Commercial and Business Law
Entry requirements
and entry requirements that applies to the Bachelor's Programme in Commercial and Business Law.Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the course, the student should, at a basic level, be able to
- account for the structure and systematics of Swedish national law, and the structure and influence of the EU/EC law on Swedish law,
- analyse central legal concepts in both civil and criminal law as well as civil procedure law,
- account for the legal economic perspective, including, among other things, economic family law,
- show skills in interpretation of the law and case analysis,
- identify and solve civil law issues,
- account for economic family law and be able to calculate the economic outcome of different economic family law dispositions,
- display a legal economic perspective on certain legal issues,
- apply group processes,
- in both speech and writing, produce legal matters,
- reflect on conclusions of results from both interpretations of the law and case analysis as well as application of relevant rules in the fields that the course has covered,
- reflect on texts from a gender perspective.
Course content
The course contains a basic study in Swedish law, contract rules (both general and special contract law), sales law, work, company types, damages, obligation law, execution (above all seizure and bankruptcy) as well as civil procedure, penal law and EU/EC law. More in-depth studies are devoted to economic family law. Also included is an introduction to law and economics.
Covered in the economic family law part are the economy-focused parts of marital law, parental rights and inheritance law, i.e. the legal rules about the economic relations of spouses, cohabitants and minors during and after different cohabitation relationships and in case of death. The current rules are also highlighted from a gender perspective.
Teaching and working methods
The teaching takes the form of lectures, seminars, moot court and practical exercises. The student should write a minor essay on a subject given by the teacher before every second seminar, and have prepared a review of a minor essay before every second seminar. The writing and preparation of the public discussion takes place with other students in small groups. At least one minor essay is written individually, however, and a minor essay is prepared for individual critical review. Participation in certain lectures, moot court and all seminars is compulsory. The student is also expected to study independently, individually or in groups.
Examination
The course examined in part through the above mentioned minor essays, seminars and moot court, and in part through written independent examination.
Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course twice are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination.
Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades.
Grades
Three-grade scale, U, G, VGOther information
Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus. The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.
Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus.
The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.
Department
Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utvecklingNo examination details is to be found.
Regulary literature
Books
ISBN: 9789139207900
ISBN: 9789139208372
ISBN: 9789177370192
ISBN: 9789152326756
Additional literature
Books
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Litteraturlista 2018 | Litteraturlista 2018.docx | |
Litteraturlista 2018 | Litteraturlista 2018.docx |