COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LAW OF COMPANIES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ERA 3003 LAW OF COMPANIES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Law

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR AHMET TÜRK

Offered to

Law

Course Objective

Aim of the course is to introduce basic principles of Turkish Law of Companies and express its differences and similarities between other legal systems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to apprehend the basic rules of Law of Companies
2   Be able to apprehend the companies and types of companies.
3   Be able to consider and evaluate the academic works, judicial decisions and legislation about law of companies.
4   Be able to solve the problems in real life about law of companies.
5   Be able to express things, which have been learned in this course.
6   Be able to express new opinions and be able to justify these opinions, be able to criticise other opinions and be able to discuss subjects, which can be useful in this field of study.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The historical development of the concept of partnership and the Turkish legal system, partnerships and their classifications; partnership relationship elements
2 Ordinary partnership, organization, relations between the partners, relationships with third parties
3 Ordinary cases of termination and liquidation of the partnership, the general provisions for trading companies
4 Collective partnerships, the partnership elements and its definition, phases of the collective partnership organization, lack of incorporation, shareholders relations, financial relations (capital of putting debt, profit and loss participation, liquidation share), personal relations, external relations
5 Relationships with third parties and responsibility of partners, changes between partners, and its legal consequences of changes in the collective termination and liquidation of the partnership
6 Anonymous partnership concept, historical development, principles of joint stock companies, which dominate
7 Types of joint stock companies, joint-stock company's organization
8 Anonymous partnership functioning, relationships between bodies and organs, organs division of powers between the board, the duties and powers of the board of directors, board members of the legal status of the acquisition and loss of status as a member of the board of directors
9 Obligations and responsibilities of administrative body, auditing, auditors and their rights, duties and responsibilities in incorporated.
10 General Assembly, the powers of the general assembly, general assembly invoking the general assembly gathering and disability states of the provisions of General Assembly resolutions
11 Individual, acquired, minority rights in incorporated, concept of interests, types of interests, acquiring stakeholding name, losing stakeholding name, obligations and rights of stakeholders equities, types of equities, bearer securities, registered shares and connected registered shares.
12 Limited partnerships, definition and quality, organization, legal status of partners, inter-partner changes
13 Limited partnership organization (general assembly, management and representation, control), partnership agreement, modification, termination and liquidation of the partnership.
14 Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Şener, Oruç Hami: Ortaklıklar Hukuku, Ankara 2012.
Pulaşlı, Hasan: Yeni Şirketler Hukuku Genel Esaslar, Ankara 2012.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, practical work, case solution.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE roundKPU + FN,0
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) roundKPU + BUT,0


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Optional, if the instructor needs to add some explanation or further note, this column can be selected from the DEBIS menu.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Optional, if the instructor needs to add some explanation or further note, this column can be selected from the DEBIS menu.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yasar.goksoy@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 36 36
Preparation for final exam 1 46 46
0
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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