COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BUSINESS LAW

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MBA 1032 BUSINESS LAW COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Maritime Business Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR FATMA ITIR BINGÖL

Offered to

Maritime Business Administration
Maritime Business Administration

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to introduce basic concepts of business law and provide information on general principles governing law of obligations and commercial law. The students are expected to develop their skills of solving legal problems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explain the law making process
2   Identify the legal issues in a variety of business situations
3   Solve legal problems that a person might face in professional life
4   Analyse and apply the legal rules to resolve factual problem situations
5   Attribute the application of national norms related with business law

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to business law
2 Law of Obligations Contracts: Definition, Classification, Formation
3 Contracts: Capacity, Legal Cause, Legality of the Subject Matter
4 Tort, Unjust Enrichment
5 Scope and Sources of Commercial Law, Commercial Enterprise,Commercial Transaction Merchant, Trade Name, Commercial Registry
6 Ordinary Partnerships and General Partnerships
7 Mid-term
8 Stock Corporations: Characteristics and Incorporation
9 Stock Corporations: Organization, Shares and Shareholders
10 Negotiable Instruments
11 Unfair Competition
12 Intellectual Property Law
13 Labor Law, Consumer Protection Law
14 New Contractual Relations in Commercial Life

Recomended or Required Reading

1.ESENER Turhan, Turkish Business Law 1(Law of Obligations),Boğaziçi University Press, Istanbul, 2004
2.ESENER Turhan, Turkish Business Law 2,Boğaziçi University Press, Istanbul, 2003
3.ANSAY Tuğrul, SCHEIDER Eric, Introduction to Turkish Business Law, Turhan Kitabevi, Ankara, 2002
4.SÖZER Bülent, Legal Environment of Business,Beta Basım A.Ş.,Istanbul,2001
5.AKI Erol, Hukukun Temel Kavramları, Barış Yayınları, Fakülteler Kitabevi, Izmir 1996
6.KOCAMAN Arif, Temel Hukuk Bilgisi, Siyasal Kitabevi, Ankara, 1998
7. ÖNEN Mesut, Işletme Hukuku, Arıkan Basım Yayım, Istanbul,2006

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Cooperative and active teaching and learning strategies

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.20 + MTE 2 * 0.20 + FINS * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.20 + MTE 2 * 0.20 + FCGR * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be anounced.

Assessment Criteria

To be anounced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be anounced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

itir.bingol@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be anounced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 118

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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