Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

apply the commercial act onto a concrete set of facts.
explain who acts as an entrepreneur.
describe the rights and duties of entrepreneurs and the legal consequences of a non-fulfillment of certain duties.

Introduction to Private Law
Contract and Labour Law

The lecture will focus on commercial law. The legal terms entrepreneur, commercial procuration and commercial power to negotiate are explained in detail. There will be case studies concentrating on the responsibilities of entrepreneurs. Besides there will be an introduction into the United Nations convention on the international sale of goods (CISG).

Gruber, Unternehmensbezogene Geschäfte, LexisNexisVerlag in aktueller Auflage (Skriptum).

Schummer, Allgemeines Unternehmensrecht, LexisNexis Verlag in aktueller Auflage (Skriptum).

Lessons & discussion
Case studies

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