Knowledge and understanding
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- explain the concept and subject matter of company law;
- explain the boundaries and relation of company law with other branches of law;
- describe division of companies into partnerships and corporations;
- explain the concept of merchant, trade company, individual merchant, pre-company, seat of the company and branch company;
- define the role, organisation and operation of the court register;
- explain concept, formation, organisation and operation of a partnership, association, foundation, public company, limted partnership, silent company, economic interest grouping;
- explain the concept, historical development, economic significance, legal characteristcs, formation, organisation and characteristics of joint stock companies and limited liability companies;
- define connected companies and statutory changes;
- describe adopted legal solutions.
Application
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- interpret the position of company law in the system of law;
- interpret specific characteristics connected with operation of company;
- independently use regulations from the area of company law;
- conduct independent research of sources in order to find the most adequate solution in a concrete situation.
- interpret similarities and differences between individual types of companies and reasons for the existence of companies:
- demonstrate the manner of formation, organisation and operation of individual types of companies;
-apply knowledge about company law.
Analysis
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- examine consequences of membership in a partnership and corporation;
- check the possibilities of restriction and expansion of membership rights in corporations;
- identify advantages of simultanous and successive of formation of public limited (joint stock) company;
- compare advantages of monistic and dualistic organisation of joint stock company;
- compare public limited company with limited liability company;
- distinguish between functions of change (increase and decrease) of basic capital of a company;
- resolve conflicts of interest that occur in internal relation between company members, bodies and company itself.
Synthesis
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- propose concrete measures for protecting the company from harmful actions of members of companiy bodies;
- organise the allocation of rights and obligations between company members;
- offer solutions in case of conflict of interest between individual bodies of a corporation and a company and its members;
- propose a system of allocation of rights and powers between individual bodies of a corporation i.e. individual members of corporation bodies and partner in a partnership;
- propose entering into contracts in accordance with the needs of all involved parties.
Evaluation
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- conclude why company law separated from the system of law of obligations in a special branch of law;
- assess interaction of dispositive and cogent rules in individual company forms and how that influences the selection of a company form by its founders;
- estimate how the possibility of formation of company with one member influences the concept of company;
- evaluate the significance of restriction of liability for accumulation of investment capital.
