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 2025
  

Course unit titleIntroduction to Private Law
Course unit code025008010301
Language of instructionGerman
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional)Compulsory
Semester when the course unit is deliveredWinter Semester 2025
Teaching hours per week2
Year of study2025
Level of course unit (e.g. first, second or third cycle)First Cycle (Bachelor)
Number of ECTS credits allocated2
Name of lecturer(s)Tobias GISINGER
Johannes PREISL


Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Course content
  • Fundamentals of law, including a brief outline of European and constitutional law.
  • Personal law, protection of personality, family and inheritance law
  • Property law (possession, ownership, lien, other rights in rem as well as security rights in rem, land register)
  • Contract law (conclusion of contracts, interpretation of contractual declarations, representation, general terms and conditions, contractual defects, content of contracts, disruptions to performance, amendments to contracts, selected sale contracts and contracts for the transfer of use)
  • Tort law including product liability law
  • Special private law: insurance contract law and labour law
  • Procedural law: enforcement of rights (civil proceedings, compulsory enforcement and insolvency)
Learning outcomes

The basics of private law are elementary for understanding economic matters. Students acquire basic knowledge of the applicable private commercial law and can thus explain fundamental legal concepts of private commercial law. They know the basic features of important areas of law, in particular personal law, family and inheritance law, property law, contract law, tort law, insurance contract law, labour law.

In doing so, the students learn legal thinking (content of claim, basis of claim, opposing party, legal consequences) and become familiar with the functioning of the legal system. They are able to classify simple facts legally and are able to recognise legal contexts. Students should be put in a position where they can legally assess simple facts and recognise whether and which legal claims exist. They are able to apply the acquired legal knowledge and adjust their course of action accordingly.

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

Bydlinski, Peter (2020): Grundzüge des Privatrechts für Ausbildung und Praxis, Wien: Manz-Verlag.

Gisinger, Tobias (2014): Wirtschaftsprivatrecht I, Wien: LexisNexis.

Kodex Unternehmensrecht, LexisNexis. (oder eine ähnliche Gesetzessammlung)

Weitere Fakultative Quellen werden in den Unterlagen zur Lehrveranstaltung genannt. Gesetze und Judikatur unter www.ris.bka.gv.at

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

Classes without compulsory attendance

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