INTRODUCTION TO PRIVATE LAW

Course Code
02.02Κ
ECTS Credits
6
Semester
2nd Semester
Course Category

Compulsory

Compulsory

Course Description
GENERAL
TEACHING METHODS: TEACHING HOURS (WEEKLY)
Lectures 3
COURSE TYPE: General Background
COURSE PREREQUISITES: None
TEACHING LANGUAGE: Greek
THE COURSE IS OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS: No
LEARNIING RESULTS
Course Description and Learning Objectives

Knowledge: Upon completion of this course, students will know how to: a) analyze and apply the law in decision making. b) explain the legal process and its relationship to business. c) analyze and apply the basic rules of law for business activities. d) describe contract law, negotiable instruments, creditor and debtor rights, business relationships, and property law, and their applications in the business context. e) analyze legislation that regulates, affects, and/or influences business activity. f) apply employment law. g) apply employment law.

Skills: Students will be able to: a) organize and present analyses related to laws that affect and/or impact business activities. b) determine the economic impact of legal issues on the economy.

Competencies: Students: a) will have early developed a stock of primary knowledge, necessary for any area of the legal system; b) will have acquired a competent body of orientation in legal science; c) will have perceptive performances necessary to soon start writing legal texts or commenting on judicial decisions. Thus, their further involvement in legal science will be substantially facilitated

Competencies

Putting knowledge into practice

Decision making

Independent & teamwork

Respect for diversity and multiculturalism

Respect for the natural environment

Demonstrate social, professional, and ethical responsibility and gender sensitivity.

Exercise of criticism and self-criticism

Promotion of free, creative and deductive thinking

CONTENT

Short course description: Private Law means the set of rules governing the relations of private persons with each other or with private legal persons. The individual branches of private law to which this course refers are the following:

(a) Civil Law, which is concerned with the regulation of private law relationships, i.e. the rights that individuals may exercise in the context of their relationships and the mutual obligations that they are subject to (provided that these do not contain a commercial, industrial, social or agricultural element, and excluding the rules of judicial enforcement of law). The course will examine in part the main points of this branch, i.e. general principles, the law of obligations, the law of property and the law of succession.

b) Commercial Law, i.e. the set of legal rules regulating commercial transactions and traders (individuals and commercial companies).

c) Labour law, i.e. the set of rules of law applicable between the employee and the employer. It is divided into.

Module title

1.General Principles of Civil Law I (Introduction, rule of law, sources)

2.General Principles of Civil Law II (persons, rights)

3.General Principles of Civil Law I II (legal transaction)

4.Law of obligations (concept and types of obligations, civil liability, creation-strengthening-fulfilment-anomalous development-transfer-amortization of obligations)

5.Special Tort Law (e.g. contracts of merit: general, sale & lease of goods, torts, administration of alienation, unjust enrichment, enrichment of creditors)

6.Law of Property (the thing and its distinctions, rights in rem, possession, possession, ownership, servitude, security in rem)

7.Inheritance law (inheritance and succession, types of succession, heir's relations with creditors and co-heirs)

8.Commercial Law I (commercial transactions, traders, industrial property, securities)

9.Commercial Law II (civil partnership, partnerships, partnerships)

10.Commercial Law III (SA)

11.Commercial Law IV (Ltd., Incorporated, Private Limited Company)

12.Individual Labour Law (General, Formation & Termination of Employment Relationship, Rights & Obligations of Employee - Employer)

13.Collective Labour Law (Trade Unionism, Strike, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Labour Disputes)

Notes-Exercises E-Class


TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION
TEACHING METHOD

- Lectures in class

 

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES EClass and consolidation exercises email
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
Method Semester workload
Lectures 39
exercises 34

Independent Study

exams

75

2

 

Total workload in hours 150
STUDENT LEARNING ASSESMENT

Written Examination with Multiple-choice Questions (Formative, Summative)

- Written test with extended and/or short-answer questions (Inclusive)

- Written test with Problem Solving (Inclusive)

* Intermediate written examination (progress) in part of the material, which is counted (25%) if the final grade is at least five (5).

RECOMMENDED-BIBLIOGRAPHY

General:

1.Tsountas (K) "Introduction to the Greek Legal System", Papazisis, 2002

2.Christofilopoulos (D) "Introduction to Law", P.N. Sakkoulas, 2007.

3.Fefes (M) "Introduction to Law", Nomiki Vibliothiki, 2016

Special:

1.Agallopoulou (P) "Basic Concepts of Civil Law", Sakkoulas, 2016

2.Varka-Adami (A) "Introduction to Civil Law", Nomiki Libliothiki, 2016.

3.Panagiotou (P) "Commercial Law", Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2019

4. Agallopoulou (P) "Introduction to Labour Law", Sakkoulas, 2019