COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BUSINESS LAW

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISL 3033 BUSINESS LAW COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Business Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASLI TUTUCU

Offered to

Econometrics
Economics (Evening)
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
Public Administration
Public Finance (Evening)
Econometrics (Evening)
Economics
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations (Evening)
Business Administration (Evening)
Business Administration
Public Finance
Public Administration (Evening)

Course Objective

Objective of this course is to state that commercial relations mainly developed by commercial enterprises and their owners as natural or corporate persons are set forth by legal regulations. To raise awareness of necessity of authentic interpretation and understanding correctly of legal regulations those are based on and generated by legal knowledge. Attendants are expected to acquire ability at least to take precautions or to apply the authentic interpretation of legal regulations in settling actual or fictional conflicts.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To manifest and interpretate the concepts of commercial transactions
2   To interpretate the effects and consequences of being a tradesman or not
3   To present the legal nature of models organizing the distribution of goods and services and diversities between such models
4   To express the concept of trademark, registration of trademarks and rights endowed by registration.
5   To identify the unfair competition and to express the types and consequences of unfair competition.
6   To put forth the distinctive features of partnership from other civil law associations
7   To express the establishment and general features of trade companies, functioning of executive and legislative bodies of trade companies.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to commercial law- systems- basics of international trade law
2 Definition and elements of commercial enterprises, distinction between commercial and craft enterprises' center and branch offices.
3 Some transactions related to commercial enterprises, pledge and ownership contracts of commercial enterprises- business transactions (into, TTK art. 3)
4 Business transactions- presumption of commerce, commercial contract for a party- consequences of business transactions (intro).
5 Consequences of business transactions (presumption of solidarity- rate of interest in business transactions) Regulations binding business transactions and commercial litigation.
6 Tradesmen (both natural and legal persons)- expiration of the title- bankruptcy of a tradesmen
7 Consequences of being a tradesman (trade name, trade registry, commercial books, prudent businessman, commercial customs, ext.)
8 Trade registry- trade name- enterprise name
9 Unfair competition and trademark
10 Commercial agency
11 Concept and elements of partnership, ordinary partnership
12 Establishment of collective and commandite company, liabilities of their partners-
13 Establishment of a limited company, liabilities of their partners, functioning of their bodies
14 Establishment of joint stock company, liabilities of their partners, functioning of their bodies

Recomended or Required Reading

Arkan, Sabih., Ticari Işletme Hukuku, Ankara, 2009
Poroy, Yasaman., Ticari Işletme Hukuku, Istanbul, 2007
Pulaşlı, Hasan., Şirketler Hukuku Temel Esaslar, Ankara, 2007.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, question and answer teaching, case studies

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

Will be announced later concurrently curriculum announcements in every semester.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 122

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51
LO.61
LO.71