Creditor's Rights and Insolvency Law, 15 credits

Main field of study

Course level

Advancement level

Course offered for

• Business and Economics Programme

Entry requirements

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to
- account for the judicial fields of specific importance for work with payments funding, credit granting and economic control,
- demonstrate knowledge of different forms of execution and property law crimes,
- identify, analyse and solve practical legal issues,
- identify the origin and winding-up of a claim,
- describe the origin of property law protection,
- analyse typical legal risks in credit-related security arrangements,
- calculate expected outcome for each creditor in a simple bankruptcy,
- describe the fundamental features of the occurring forms of insolvency,
- identify typical property law crimes,
- reflect on the issues of said legal fields,
- critically examine and analyse legal source material.

Course content

This course covers civil law and economic criminal law. The civil law part of the course involves obligation law, credit and execution law, and property law.

Obligation law comprises the concepts of demand and debt, the origin and contents of demands, and payment, offset and limitation. The section credit and execution law covers the credit agreement, credit security and collection of demands via both special execution and general execution. Joining this are the property law rules concerning when an acquirer of ownership or other right gains protection against a competing acquirer or the creditors of the transferor/lessor. Covered in economic criminal law are the general economic crimes, as well as fraud and embezzlement and the more business related crimes, such as crimes against creditors and dishonesty crimes.

Teaching and working methods

The teaching takes the form of lectures and exercises. Seminars and written assignments may also occur, the latter to be solved in groups and/or individually. The students should also study independently.

Examination

The course is examined through an independent written examination. If seminars and/or written assignments occur, these are included in the examination. Seminars are completed through active participation in them. Detailed information can be found in the study guide.

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.

Department