COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: BUSINESS LAW

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
LAW 203	C	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 Economics (3 years) Program
1	Students define the fundamental problems of economics	4
2	Students describe key economic theories	4
3	Students critically discuss current developments in economics	4
4	Students appropriately use software for data analysis	4
5	Students critically contextualize the selection of an economic problem for research within scholarly literature and theory on the topic	4
6	Students apply appropriate analytical methods to address economic problems	4
7	Students use effective communication skills in a variety of academic and professional contexts	4
8	Students effectively contribute to group work	4
9	Students conduct independent research under academic supervision	4
10	Students uphold ethical values in data collection, interpretation, and dissemination	4
11	Students critically engage with interdisciplinary innovations in social sciences	4
12	Student explain how their research has a broader social benefit	4

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