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<title>Business Law</title>
<cid>BITM-220</cid>
<sapsubmodule>P440-0096</sapsubmodule>
<bkey>itm2</bkey>
<ctypes>
<hours>4</hours>
<type>V</type>
</ctypes>
<cp>5</cp>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory>yes</mandatory>
<language>German</language>
<exam>Written exam (90 minutes / can be repeated semesterly)</exam>
<curriculum>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>BITM-220</cid>
<branch>International Tourism-Management</branch>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory_tag>mandatory course</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>BITM-220</cid>
<branch>International Tourism-Management</branch>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory_tag>mandatory course</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>BITM-220</cid>
<branch>International Tourism-Management</branch>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory_tag>mandatory course</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>BITM-220</cid>
<branch>International Tourism-Management</branch>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory_tag>mandatory course</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
</curriculum>
<workload>
60 class hours (= 45 clock hours) over a 15-week period.The total student study time is 150 hours (equivalent to 5 ECTS credits).There are therefore 105 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.</workload>
<prerequisites>
<prerequisite>
<pfcid>BITM-130</pfcid>
<pftitle>Fundamentals of Law</pftitle>
</prerequisite>
</prerequisites>
<prerequisitesfor>
<prerequisitefor>
<pfcid>BITM-412</pfcid>
<pftitle>Business Taxation and Aspects of International Corporate Taxation</pftitle>
</prerequisitefor>
<prerequisitefor>
<pfcid>BITM-420</pfcid>
<pftitle>International Contract Law and Law for Managers in the Tourism Industry</pftitle>
</prerequisitefor>
</prerequisitesfor>
<convenor>Prof. Dr. Sybille Neumann</convenor>
<convenor-person-key>sne</convenor-person-key>
<lecturers>
<lecturer>Prof. Dr. Holger Buck</lecturer>
<lecturer-person-key>hbu</lecturer-person-key>
<lecturer>Prof. Dr. Sybille Neumann</lecturer>
<lecturer-person-key>sne</lecturer-person-key>
<lecturer>Dozierende des Studiengangs</lecturer>
<lecturer-person-key>all</lecturer-person-key>
</lecturers>
<objectives>After successfully completing this module, students will: 
- be familiar with the most important types of contracts, in particular sales law
- know commercial and corporate law

- be able to handle relevant legal texts independently
- understand the relevance of regulations for business practice
- be capable of developing solutions to concrete cases in the areas of sales, commercial 
  and corporate law by classifying the problem, 
  subsuming the facts under the characteristics of the relevant regulations and 
  deriving the result from them
</objectives>
<content>
Special law of obligations: Complete overview of special contracts under the law of obligations; the sales contract (including defective performance) will be dealt with in more detail.
Commerical law: (Concept of &quot;merchant law&quot;, commercial and company register, company, commercial powers of attorney, transfer of a company to a new entity, commercial transactions)
Corporate law: Partnerships and corporations, a brief introduction to European company forms.</content>
<media>Lecture based on introductory cases with exercises for solving legal cases
Board and slides
Learning material from the Internet (charts, diagrams, practice cases)
</media>
<literature>- Hirsch, Christoph, Schuldrecht Besonderer Teil, Nomos, Baden-Baden, latest 
  edition
- Brox, Hans/Walker, Wolf, Besonderes Schuldrecht, C.H. Beck 
  München, latest edition
- Klunzinger, Eugen, Grundzüge des Handelsrechts, Vahlen, München, latest 
  edition
- Klunzinger, Eugen, Grundzüge des Gesellschaftsrechts, Vahlen, München,    
  latest edition 

</literature>
<offered>
</offered>
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