COURSE INFORMATION
Course Title: BUSINESS LAW
Code Course Type Regular Semester Theory Practice Lab Credits ECTS
LAW 203 A 3 3 0 0 3 5
Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) NA
Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours: Gelanda Shkurtaj , 48
Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours: NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours: NA
Language: English
Compulsory/Elective: Compulsory
Classroom and Meeting Time: LAW 203
Course Description: Business Law: The titles of the subjects are; Commercial undertaking, commercial affairs and results, merchant, trade register, unfair competition, classification of companies, Stock Corporation, negotiable instruments.
Course Objectives: Business law to make students understand the life of a company from all the points of view. It is a field of right, that aims to understand all the aspects of a company, by touching in a transversal way all the legal frame related to his life. So from this point of view, during this course, it will be treated civil law, labour law, commercial law, taxation law, under the codes in the Republic of Albania.
COURSE OUTLINE
Week Topics
1 Presentation of the syllabus. Introduction to the notion of Albanian Constitutional law, law and society, law and morality, law and justice
2 Legal systems and legal sources according to Albanian Civil Code.
3 Civil Code. Contract law. What are the Legal Transactions?
4 Continuing Civil Law and Contracts. Legal capacity and capacity to act.
5 Commercial Law in General. Legal Transactions and their validity.
6 Commercial Law sh.p.k. and sh.a. Companies. Moment of gaining legal capacity to act.
7 Commercial Law sh.p.k. and sh.a. Companies. Moment of gaining legal capacity to act.
8 Midterm
9 Commercial Law other Companies under Albanian Law. Types of companies under C.L
10 Taxation Law and Fiscal system in the Republic of Albania.
11 Central and Local Taxes. What is the flat rate and the progressive tax.
12 Law on Tax Procedures 9901/2008. Process and international taxation
13 Labour Law. General provisions under the Albanian Labour Code.
14 Intellectual Property Law. General provisions under the domestic law.
Prerequisite(s): NO
Textbook: ASPEKTE TE SE DREJTES SE BIZNESIT NE SHQIPERI. MEDIA PRINT . ARGITA MALLTEZI, JONIDA RYSTEMAJ, LEALBA PELINKU. THE BASES OF THE ALBANIAN CONSTITUTION. ALBANIAN CIVIL CODE. ALBANIAN COMMERCIAL CODE. ALBANIAN LAW ON TAX PROCEDURES. ALBANIAN LAW ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. ALBANIAN LABOUR CODE.
Other References: NO
Laboratory Work: NO
Computer Usage: NO
Others: No
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
1 The students will receive basic and general information about law
2 The students have ability to use the legal knowledge in daily life
3 The students will receive sufficient information about business law and its use in the financial system
4 The students will receive basic information about business law.
5 The students will receive sufficient information about european law and their use in international relations
COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES
(Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)
No Program Competencies Cont.
Bachelor in Banking and Finance (3 years) Program
1 The students are gained the ability to look at the problems of daily life from a broader perspective. They gain the needed skills not only to understand economic problems in banking and finance but also to construct a model and defend in meaningful way.
2 They have knowledge about the finance and banking.
3 They have knowledge about the money and banking.
4 They have knowledge about the international finance and banking.
5 They have ability to use mathematical and statistical methods in banking and finance.
6 They know how to use computer programs in both daily office usage and statistical data evaluations in banking and finance department.
7 They have necessary banking and finance skills that needed in private and public sector.
8 They are intended to be specialist in one of departmental fields that they choose from the list of general economics, finance economics, public finance, corporate finance, finance management, international finance markets and institutions, banking and central banking, international finance and banking, money and banking, international trade and banking.
9 They have ability to utilize fundamental economic theories and tools to solve economic problems in banking and finance.
10 They are aware of the fact that banking and finance is a social science and they respect the social perspectives and social values of the society’s ethics.
COURSE EVALUATION METHOD
Method Quantity Percentage
Midterm Exam(s)
1
45
Final Exam
1
45
Attendance
10
Total Percent: 100%
ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)
Activities Quantity Duration(Hours) Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) 16 3 48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) 16 3 48
Mid-terms 1 3 3
Assignments 1 20 20
Final examination 1 3 3
Other 1 3 3
Total Work Load:
125
Total Work Load/25(h):
5
ECTS Credit of the Course:
5