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Private Commercial Law

Module name (EN):
Name of module in study programme. It should be precise and clear.
Private Commercial Law
Degree programme:
Study Programme with validity of corresponding study regulations containing this module.
Digital Business and IT, Bachelor, SO 01.10.2023
Module code: WINF-B23-420
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.
P460-0021
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.
2V+2U (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: 4
Mandatory course: yes
Language of instruction:
German
Assessment:
Exam

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

WIB21-420 (P450-0308) Industrial Engineering, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2021 , semester 4, mandatory course
WINF-B23-420 (P460-0021) Digital Business and IT, Bachelor, SO 01.10.2023 , semester 4, 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):
None.
Recommended as prerequisite for:
Module coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Holger Buck
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Holger Buck

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Learning outcomes:
After successfully completing this module students will
- be familiar with the most important types of contracts in commercial law, in particular sales law and its right of warranty
- be familiar with commercial and corporate law
- be familiar with the functions and mechanisms of business, commercial and corporate law
- understand the law as one of the basic conditions for entrepreneurial activity and the relevance of the regulations for business practice
- be able to incorporate legal considerations into the operational of a company
- will be able to handle relevant legal texts independently
- will be able to develop proposals for solutions to specific cases relating to purchase, commercial and corporate law, by classifying the problem, subsuming the facts under the characteristics of the relevant regulations and deriving the result therefrom
- will have developed drafting proposals for simple legal transactions,
- be able to evaluate and review the results based on general legal value judgements.

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Module content:
1. Civil law
- Law, the legal system, law enforcement
- Legal entities in private law
- Freedom of contract and its limits, abstraction principle
- Legal transactions and declaration of intent
- All about contracts (introduction, steps involved in concluding a contract, effect of the contract, special features of a consumer contract)
- Basic features of the law on general terms and conditions (definition, inclusion, reference to content control)
- Agency according to BGB
- Destruction and nullity of legal transactions (selected topics, including nullity due to lack of form)
- Debtor and creditor, cession, joint and several liability
- Performance by the seller (place of performance, transfer of risk, time of performance, retention of title)
- Performance by the buyer (payment, set-off)
- Statutory limitation
- Laws governing performance disruptions using the purchase contract as an example (withdrawal and compensation for damages according to BGB, warranty for material defects according to BGB)
- Overview of special obligations and a selection of important contract types (purchase contract, contract for work and services and contract for work and materials)
 
2. Principles of commerical law
- Significance, tasks and functions,
- Merchant status
- The appearance of merchants and the protection of legal transactions (company name, commercial and business register)
- Conclusion of contracts by dependent auxiliary persons (procuration, power of attorney)
- Basic features of commercial transactions (in particular § 377 HGB)
 
3. Principles of corporate law
- Types of enterprises for economic purposes and their selection
- Overview of the most important corporate forms
- Overview of partnerships
- Corporations based on the example of the GmbH

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Teaching methods/Media:
Interactive lecture with integrated tutorial (Solving legal issues)
Visualization by means of transparencies
Learning material from the internal eLearning management system

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Recommended or required reading:
- Brox, H. / Walker, W.-D. Allgemeines Schuldrecht. München: C. H. Beck, aktuelle Auflage
- Brox, H./Walker, W.-D., Besonderes Schuldrecht. München: C. H. Beck, aktuelle Auflage
- Brox, H. / Henssler, M., Handelsrecht. München: C. H. Beck, aktuelle Auflage
- [Führich, E., Wirtschaftsprivatrecht. München: Franz Vahlen, 13. Auflage 2017, teilweise überholt]
- Führich, E./Werdan, I. Wirtschaftsprivatrecht in Fällen und Fragen. München: Franz Vahlen, aktuelle Auflage
- Gildeggen, R. u. a. Wirtschaftsprivatrecht: Kompaktwissen für Betriebswirte. Berlin; Boston: de Gruyter Oldenbourg, aktuelle Auflage (e-book in htwsaar-Bibliothek)
- Güllemann, D. Wirtschaftsprivatrecht: BGB Allgemeiner Teil, Schuldrecht, Sachenrecht, Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht. München: Franz Vahlen, aktuelle Auflage
- Kindler, P., Grundkurs Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht. München: C. H. Beck, aktuelle Auflage
- Metzler-Müller, K. Wie löse ich einen Privatrechtsfall. Stuttgart: Boorberg, aktuelle Auflage
- Saenger, I., Gesellschaftsrecht. München: Franz Vahlen, aktuelle Auflage

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