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Economics and business administration (Academic Year 2020/2021) - Financial management

Business law


Credits: 9
Content language:English
Course description
The course aims to provide a first picture of the legal aspects related to the performance of business: contract law, aspects of comparative private law, financial instruments linked to the performance of the business, bank contracts, International bank guarantees and consumer law , antitrust , ICC's models.
Prerequisites
No formal prerequisites.
Objectives
By the end of this module, the student will have: 1. Closely examined the legal aspects of the three basic forms of international business: trade; licensing of intellectual property; and foreign direct investment - within the context of managerial decision-making. 2. Examined the fundamental principles of public and private international law, as well as of the law of the European Union, as they relate to the regulation of trade, licensing of intellectual property rights and direct investment. 3. Had conveyed a basic knowledge of the law of contracts for the sale of goods as embodied in the Convention for International Sale of Goods in a comparative perspective with other legal systems and principles concerning the subject-matter. 4. Have been offered a comparative approach to the study of business law and of legal systems so as to understand how legal problems are treated in different societal and cultural environments. 5. Developed an awareness of the special legal problems facing Multinational corporations that are trading, licensing and investing in foreign countries.
Program
Contents of the course: 1. Introduction to Business Law 2. The Law of Contract 3. Sale of Goods 4. UICC 5. International Trade part I 6. International Trade part II 7. Documentary Credits 8. Foreign Direct Investment 9. FDI Risks and Risk Management 10. Employment Issues 11. EU Single Market 12. NAFTA plus other Free Trade Areas 13. Tax Issues 14. Intellectual Property - Patents 15. intellectual Property - Trade Marks 16. intellectual Property - Copyright 17. intellectual Property - Design Rights and Patents 18. Intellectual Property - Enforcement 19. EU Competition Law article 101 20. EU Competition Law article 102 21. EU Competition Law Merger Control 22. U.S. Anti Trust law Exclusionary Conduct 23. U.S. Anti Trust law Merger Control 24. Competition law Enforcement 25. Competition law Leniency programs
Book
The recommended course book for this subject matter is Schaffer, Agusti, & Earle, International Business Law and Its Environment, Cencage - Western Legal Studies in Business 8th Edition 2012 (international edition) , ISBN-13 978- 1133587583 ISBN-10: 1133587585.
Professor/Tutor responsible for teaching
Massimiliano Silvetti
Video professors
List of lessons
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