Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

  
Degree programme:Bachelor International Business Administration Part-time
Type of degree:FH Bachelor´s Degree Programme
 Part-time
 Winter Semester 2024
  

Course unit titleEuropean and International Business and Consumer Law
Course unit code025008050301
Language of instructionGerman
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional)Compulsory
Semester when the course unit is deliveredWinter Semester 2024
Teaching hours per week2
Year of study2024
Level of course unit (e.g. first, second or third cycle)First Cycle (Bachelor)
Number of ECTS credits allocated2
Name of lecturer(s)Tülay ALTUNTAS
Christina LINDNER
Wilhelm WACHTER
Alexander WITTWER


Prerequisites and co-requisites

Successful completion of the course Introduction to Private Law and Corporate Law.

Course content
  • Foundations and essential principles of European law
  • The four European fundamental freedoms
  • European law on state aid
  • European competition law
  • International Contract Law
  • The International Sale of Goods
  • Cross-border litigation
  • Special issues in international contract drafting
  • Cross-border security interests
  • International commercial agency and authorised dealer contracts
  • International consumer sales contracts
  • Selected areas of international tort law
  • Cross-border labour and social law
Learning outcomes

With the European internal market, the national legal framework is strongly influenced by European law initiatives to harmonise legal transactions. Particularly in the intra-European trade of goods and services, companies operate within a fixed framework, for which students of the International Business Administration degree programme require basic knowledge.

Students know international, especially European, legal sources and are familiar with European institutions and their composition. They understand the process by which European laws and regulations are transposed into national law.

Students can refer to selected European legal sources in the initial assessment of legal issues and argue with reference to them. They use their knowledge of European law in shaping management decisions, e.g. the assessment of location advantages or marketing strategies.

Students analyse legal problems and are able to decide when legal support is required.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Interactive course with lecture, case studies, exercises in individual and group work

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam

Comment

None

Recommended or required reading

Gildeggen Rainer; Wilburger Andreas (2017), Internationale Handelsgeschäfte, München: Vahlen.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning)

Classes with compulsory attendance 

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