COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BUSINESS LAW

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MBA 1032 BUSINESS LAW COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Maritime Business Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FATMA ITIR BINGÖL

Offered to

Maritime Business Administration
Maritime Business Administration (Evening)

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to introduce basic concepts of business law and provide information on general principles governing law of obligations and commercial law. The students are expected to develop their skills of solving legal problems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explain the procedure of making contract
2   Identify the legal issues which can be come across while running a commercial enterprise
3   Attribute the rights and the duties of the merchant
4   Analyse and apply the legal rules to solve commercial disputes
5   Identify the types of corporations and the liability of the partners

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to business law
2 Fundamental principles of obligations law
3 The definitions of commercial enterprise and guild enterprise and the differences of them
4 Some of the main legal transactions related with commercial enterprise: The transfer of commercial enterprise and the pledge
5 The definition and the solutions of commercial work and the presumption of commercial work
6 The difference of commercial work-ordinary work and the work which is a subject of consumer contract
7 Commercial registery and registery of pledged movables
8 Commercial name, firm name and some basic concepts of intellectul and industrial property rights law
9 The rights and duties of merchant
10 Assistants of merchant
11 Unfair competition
12 Commercial notebooks
13 Types of corporations
14 Liability of the corporations and their Partners
15 Case study based on the decisions of Court of Cassation

Recomended or Required Reading

1) Türk Ticaret Kanunu, Derleyen Dr. Mustafa Emir ÜSTÜNDAĞ, Dora Yaınevi, Bursa, 2022
2) Mehmet BAHTIYAR, Ticari IŞletme Hukuku, Beta yayınevi, Istanbul, 2020
3) Sabih ARKAN, Ticari Işletme Hukuku, Banka ve Ticaret Hukuku Araştırma Enstitüsü, Ankara, 2020
4) Fatih BILGILI/ Ertan DEMIRKAPI, Ticaret Hukuku Bilgisi, Dora Yayınevi, Bursa, 2020
5) Ticaret Hukuku-I-Ticari Işletme HUkuku Fasikülü, Derleyen Mustafa Emir ÜSTÜNDAĞ, Adalet Yayınevi, Ankara, 2022
6) Selma ÇETINER/ Armağan Ebru BOZKURT YÜKSEL, Ticari IŞletme ve Şirketler Hukuku, Seçkin Yayınevi, Ankara, 2017
7) Şaban KAYIHAN/ Mustafa YASAN, Ticaret Hukuku, Seçkin Yayınevi, Ankara, 2019
8) Fatih BILGILI/M. Fatih CENGIL, Ticaret Hukuku Pratik Çalışmalar Serisi-Ticari Işletme Hukuku, Dora Yayınevi, Ankara, 2020
9) Cafer EMINOĞLU/ Süleyman KIRAN/ Nevin MERAL/ F. Betül ÇAKIR ÇELEBI/ Kemalettin Ahmet AKSOY, Adalet Yayınevi, Ankara, 2018
10) David M. NEIPERT, law of Global Commerce, Prentice Hall Publications USA, 2002
11) Turhan ESENER, Turkish Business Law 1(Law of Obligations), Boğaziçi University Press, Istanbul, 2004
12) Turhan ESENER, Turkish Business Law 2,Boğaziçi University Press, Istanbul, 2003
13) Tuğrul ANSAY/ Eric SCHEIDER, Introduction to Turkish Business Law, Turhan Kitabevi, Ankara, 2002
14) Rona AYBAY, An Introduction to Law, Der Yayınevi, Istanbul, 2020

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Literature review, scenario problem solving and case study based on decisions of Court of Cassation.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be anounced.

Assessment Criteria

To be anounced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be anounced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi F. Itır Bingöl,
Dokuz Eylül University,
Economics and Administrative Sciences Faculty,
Business Administration Department,
Division of Commercial Law,

Dokuzçeşmeler Campus,
35160-Buca-IZMIR

Room Nr. 327
Phone Nr. 420 41 80 (ext. 10626)

e-mail: itir.bingol@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

In Maritime Faculty: Monday 12-13:00
In Economics & Administrative Sciences Faculty: Friday 13:00-14:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 118

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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