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Business Law

Module name (EN):
Name of module in study programme. It should be precise and clear.
Business Law
Degree programme:
Study Programme with validity of corresponding study regulations containing this module.
International Tourism-Management, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2013
Module code: BITM-220
SAP-Submodule-No.:
The exam administration creates a SAP-Submodule-No for every exam type in every module. The SAP-Submodule-No is equal for the same module in different study programs.
P440-0096
Hours per semester week / Teaching method:
The count of hours per week is a combination of lecture (V for German Vorlesung), exercise (U for Übung), practice (P) oder project (PA). For example a course of the form 2V+2U has 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of exercise per week.
4V (4 hours per week)
ECTS credits:
European Credit Transfer System. Points for successful completion of a course. Each ECTS point represents a workload of 30 hours.
5
Semester: 2
Mandatory course: yes
Language of instruction:
German
Assessment:
Written exam (90 minutes / can be repeated semesterly)

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Applicability / Curricular relevance:
All study programs (with year of the version of study regulations) containing the course.

BITM-220 (P440-0096) International Tourism-Management, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2013 , semester 2, mandatory course
BITM-220 (P440-0096) International Tourism-Management, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2015 , semester 2, mandatory course
BITM-220 (P440-0096) International Tourism-Management, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2017 , semester 2, mandatory course
BITM-220 (P440-0096) International Tourism-Management, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2020 , semester 2, mandatory course
Workload:
Workload of student for successfully completing the course. Each ECTS credit represents 30 working hours. These are the combined effort of face-to-face time, post-processing the subject of the lecture, exercises and preparation for the exam.

The total workload is distributed on the semester (01.04.-30.09. during the summer term, 01.10.-31.03. during the winter term).
60 class hours (= 45 clock hours) over a 15-week period.
The total student study time is 150 hours (equivalent to 5 ECTS credits).
There are therefore 105 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.
Recommended prerequisites (modules):
BITM-130 Fundamentals of Law


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Recommended as prerequisite for:
BITM-412 Business Taxation and Aspects of International Corporate Taxation
BITM-420 International Contract Law and Law for Managers in the Tourism Industry


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Module coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Sybille Neumann
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Holger Buck
Prof. Dr. Sybille Neumann
Dozierende des Studiengangs


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Learning outcomes:
After successfully completing this module, students will:
- be familiar with the most important types of contracts, in particular sales law
- know commercial and corporate law
 
- be able to handle relevant legal texts independently
- understand the relevance of regulations for business practice
- be capable of developing solutions to concrete cases in the areas of sales, commercial
  and corporate law by classifying the problem,
  subsuming the facts under the characteristics of the relevant regulations and
  deriving the result from them


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Module content:
 
Special law of obligations: Complete overview of special contracts under the law of obligations; the sales contract (including defective performance) will be dealt with in more detail.
Commerical law: (Concept of "merchant law", commercial and company register, company, commercial powers of attorney, transfer of a company to a new entity, commercial transactions)
Corporate law: Partnerships and corporations, a brief introduction to European company forms.

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Teaching methods/Media:
Lecture based on introductory cases with exercises for solving legal cases
Board and slides
Learning material from the Internet (charts, diagrams, practice cases)


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Recommended or required reading:
- Hirsch, Christoph, Schuldrecht Besonderer Teil, Nomos, Baden-Baden, latest
  edition
- Brox, Hans/Walker, Wolf, Besonderes Schuldrecht, C.H. Beck
  München, latest edition
- Klunzinger, Eugen, Grundzüge des Handelsrechts, Vahlen, München, latest
  edition
- Klunzinger, Eugen, Grundzüge des Gesellschaftsrechts, Vahlen, München,    
  latest edition
 


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