Business law 2700-M-LM-D2PRGOS
The purpose of the class is to familiarize students with the principles of business law, their understanding of the role of law in the economy, and to learn the legal basis for undertaking and carrying out business activities, as well as the legal forms of conducting these activities, including their advantages and disadvantages. In addition, the class will also discuss the issue of legal security of business operations and ways to solve legal problems faced by entrepreneurs (based on case studies).
Detailed topics:
1) Introduction - legal theory in a nutshell: legal norms, sources and interpretation of law.
2) Economy as an object of legal regulation:
(a) axiology of the economy, the relationship of the state and the economy,
b) types, sorts and forms of state behavior towards the economy,
c) functions of law in the market economy.
3) The essence of economic law, its sources and features:
(a) public and private economic law,
b) sources and norms of economic law (including the concept of the so-called economic constitution and the so-called business constitution),
(c) principles of public economic law.
4) The concept of economic activity and the concept of an entrepreneur:
(a) the concept of economic activity,
(b) the concept and types of entrepreneur,
(c) rights and obligations of entrepreneurs involved in business,
(d) the concept of enterprise.
5) Legal forms of conducting business.
6) Registration and records of entrepreneurs:
(a) National Court Register,
(b) business activity register (CEIDG).
7) Economic freedom vs. regulation of economic activity:
(a) freedom of economic activity,
b) regulation of economic activity (regulated economic activity; permits, licenses, consents; concessions),
(c) control and supervision of entrepreneurial activity.
8) Selected contracts in business:
(a) contract - the basic source of obligations in trade,
(b) barter agreement,
(c) sponsorship agreement.
9) Legal protection of market mechanisms, competition and consumers:
(a) acts of unfair competition (the Law on Combating Unfair Competition),
(b) practices restricting competition (Law on Protection of Competition and Consumers),
(c) organization of competition and consumer protection (President of the OCCP, consumer organizations).
10) Taxes of the entrepreneur:
(a) basic concepts and constructions of tax law (elements of tax construction, tax obligation, tax liability, tax authorities),
(b) income tax,
(c) tax on goods and services.
11) Business disputes, restructuring and bankruptcy:
(a) settlement of business disputes,
(b) restructuring and restructuring proceedings,
(c) bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings.
12) Termination of economic activity.
Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
The student should:
1. know the legal conditions of state influence on the economy;
2. know the basic concepts and institutions of economic law, their interrelationships and the most important sources of economic law;
3. recognize the impact of law on the development of the economy and the negative consequences of the instability of economic law regulations and their excessive detail;
4. be familiar with the organizational and legal forms of doing business;
5. distinguish basic types of economic contracts;
Skills:
Students should:
1. understand the basic terminology of economic law;
2. be able to follow and understand changes in the regulation of business law.
Social Competencies:
The student should be able to:
1. undertake business activities (as an individual);
2. analyze legal risks in business and take possible corrective actions;
3. pose questions to a legal advisor or attorney regarding legal problems arising in connection with business activities.
Assessment criteria
Assessment methods:
- description,
- explanation with elements of lecture,
- discussion.
Assessment criteria:
- attendance (to pass students should attend classes at least 10 times; the lecturer does not provide the possibility to make up classes in which the student was not present; sick leave in case of absence of more than 50% means the necessity to pass in the form of a written test),
- active participation in the classes (activity, debate, solving case studies prepared by the lecturer, overview of media publications),
- credit papers (creation of draft legal documents, completion of official forms),
- written test (obtaining a minimum of 50% of the maximum number of points possible).
Completion of the course will be possible for students who have fulfilled all of the above criteria. The lecturer does not allow students to improve positive grades.
Practical placement
lack-of
Bibliography
• „Prawo gospodarcze. Aspekty publicznoprawne”, red. nauk. Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Marek Wierzbowski, Wolters Kluwer 2023.
• Zofia Snażyk, Adam Szafrański, „Publiczne prawo gospodarcze”, C. H. Beck 2023.
• „Prawo gospodarcze publiczne w pigułce”, C. H. Beck 2021.
• Katarzyna Bilewska, Aleksander Chłopecki, „Prawo handlowe”, C. H. Beck 2022.
• „Prawo handlowe w pigułce”, C. H. Beck 2022.
• „Prawo finansowe w pigułce”, C. H. Beck 2022.
• Danuta Młodzikowska, Bjorn Lunden, „Jednoosobowa firma”, Warszawa 2016. [*poradnik]
• Przemysław Mućko, Aneta Sokół, „Jak założyć i prowadzić własną firmę. Praktyczny poradnik z przykładami”, Warszawa 2022. [*poradnik]
Additionally: a selection of supplementary texts for each class theme.
Additional information
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