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
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)
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