Corporate Law with Focus on Economics, 15 credits

Main field of study

Course level

Advancement level

Course offered for

• Bachelor´s Programme in Commercial and Business Law

Entry requirements

Admission to the course requires, apart from the general entry requirements, satisfaction of the specific entry requirements that apply for admission to the Bachelor's Programme in Commercial and Business Law. In addition, the student should have completed the courses Commercial and Business Law 18 HE credits, Theories and Methods of Law, 12 HE credits, Contract, Tort and Insurance Law, 18 HE credits, Intellectual Property Rights, 7.5 HE credits, Real Estate Law, 7.5 HE credits and Labour Law, 7.5 HE credits. In addition, parts in external accounting should have been reviewed.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to
- account for the Swedish corporation forms that exist and the differences between them,
- demonstrate knowledge of formation of associations and their legal personality,
- account for the statutory qualifications that go with organs and functions in a corporation, the limits of the qualifications and authorities, and the law of damages related sanctions in case of infringements of these,
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the corporate law control systems,
- account for the capital raising of corporations and the protection of the own capital and its composition,
- demonstrate good basic knowledge of organisational theory
- identify and analyse the advantages and disadvantages of different corporation forms from different perspectives, for example from an owner perspective and a creditor's perspective,
- identify, analyse and structure legal issues in the field of corporate law,
- reflect on valuation issues and formulate deliberate positions to an advocated solution.

Course content

This course covers business as a corporation from a judicial perspective. Corporate law regulates a company's formal structure through regulations of decision methods, division of power and responsibility, how the company's fortune may be disposed and of insight for different stakeholder groups. In addition, studies of organisational theory models are included, as well as of how enterprises may be organised.

Teaching and working methods

The teaching takes the form of lectures, seminars, role play (moot shareholders meeting) and practical exercises. Participation in seminars, role-play and practical exercises are compulsory. The course also includes compulsory written assignments and minor essays, which also are presented orally. The work is carried out in small groups.

In the course, a project concerning foreign establishment is also included, which is presented both in writing and orally. The project is carried out with students in the Bachelor's Programme in Commercial and Business Law with Focus on Europe which intends to integrate both Swedish, French and German judicial aspects, mainly corporate law, with organisational theory application models.

Examination

The course is examined through written individual examination, active participation in seminars, moot shareholders' meeting, and through fulfilment of written assignments and minor essays. The latter is carried out in small groups.

If the LiU coordinator for students with disabilities has granted a student the right to an adapted examination for a written examination in an examination hall, the student has the right to it. If the coordinator has instead recommended for the student an adapted examination or alternative form of examination, the examiner may grant this if the examiner assesses that it is possible, based on consideration of the course objectives.

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

Other 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.

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