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Department of Banking and Financial Management

3rd Semester

Commercial Law

At A Glance
Course Code
ΧΡΔΙΚ03
Course Type
General Background
Teaching Language
Greek
Is the course offered to Erasmus Students?
No
Teaching Delivery
Classroom teaching - Teaching is based both on the books listed below, as well as on selected, additional teaching material (e.g. assignments and studies) distributed to students on a complementary basis.
Use of Information and Communications Technology

All teaching material (eg. Power Point lectures, case studies, supplementary material) are uploaded to: https://eclass.unipi.gr/courses/XTD115/

Independent Teaching Activities
Type
Lectures
Weekly Teaching Hours
4
ECTS Credits
7,5
External Links
Student Performance Evaluation

The course is assessed by a one written examination (two hours duration) with multiple choice questions covering all of the course components.

Learning Outcomes

The objective of the course is to present, in a comprehensive and at the same time intelligible manner, the institutional framework underlying the most important thematic areas – parts of Commercial Law, so that students obtain, as far as possible, an all-inclusive depiction of how the real economy and the market operate. In this context, it is expected that students will:

  • comprehend how a commercial business (sole proprietorship or corporate) operates as well as the wider environment in which it operates;
  • acquire the ability to synthesize the acquired knowledge in order to solve practical problems and adequately deal with case studies discussed in the course
General Competences
  • Analytical skills and critical thinking
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Ability to place facts within the scope of rules
  • Development and supporting of arguments in order to resolve problems
Syllabus

Course content

  • Introduction to law and commercial law – commercialism and law
  • The concept of “enterprise” and basic principles of labor law
  • Associations of persons – companies and basic principles governing legal entities
  • The “association” and the “civil company”: fundamental principles
  • Partnerships
  • Capital companies
  • Securities
  • Industrial property
  • Unfair competition and consumer protection
  • Free competition
Bibliography
  • G. Argyros, Commercial Law (Benos Publications, 2019)
  • I. Rokas, “Companies” (Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2019)
Undergraduate Courses
1st Semester
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ΧΡΜΑΘ06
Microeconomics Ι
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Regulation of Financial Markets
ΧΡΘΠΧ01
Statistics I
ΧΡΣΤΑ 01