Commercial Law (Nego. Inst, Com. Enterprise)
fulurya@yahoo.com
tayoglu@gsu.edu.tr
anlamaltay@gmail.com
adural@gsu.edu.tr
omyilmaz@gsu.edu.tr
Content
Objective
This course is aimed to teach the basic concepts and methodology of Commercial Law.
Course Content
1. Concept and elements of commercial enterprise
2. The notion of businessmen, pledge, merchant
3. Commercial business, commercial provision, commercial interest
4. Trade register, commercial books
5. Unfair competition
6. Commercial Agents
7. Trademark
8. Definition of negotiable instruments
9. Negotiable instruments
10. Bill of exchange
11. Bill of exchange
12. Promissory notes
13. Cheques
14. Cheques
Course Learning Outcomes
Commercial business law will be explained for the first 7 weeks, and negotiable instrument law for the second 7-week period. In commercial business law; the establishment, functions, merchant, commercial business, unfair competition and brand issues of the commercial enterprise will be processed.
Regarding negotiable instrument law, it will be ensured that the student has the formation of the legal and internationally uniform regime of the negotiable instruments (bills of exchange, bonds, checks).
Teaching and Learning Methods
Theoretical lectures and practical exercises.
References
Reha Poroy/Hamdi Yasaman, Ticari İşletme Hukuku, İstanbul 2017.
Hüseyin Ülgen/Mehmet Helvacı/Abuzer Kendigelen/Arslan Kaya/Füsun Nomer Ertan, Ticari İşletme Hukuku, İstanbul 2015.
Fırat Öztan, Kıymetli Evrak Hukuku, İstanbul 2017.
Hüseyin Ülgen/Mehmet Helvacı/Abuzer Kendigelen/Arslan Kaya, Kıymetli Evrak Hukuku, İstanbul 2016.
Weekly Contents
| Week | Weekly Contents |
|---|---|
| 1 | Commercial enterprise, its elements |
| 2 | Transfer, pledge of the enterprise |
| 3 | Commercial transactions |
| 4 | Trade registry, ledgers |
| 5 | Unfair competition |
| 6 | Commercial agents |
| 7 | Trademark law |
| 8 | Negotiable instruments |
| 9 | General principles of negotiable instruments |
| 10 | Bill of exchange |
| 11 | Bill of exchange |
| 12 | Promissory notes |
| 13 | Cheques |
| 14 | Cheques |
Assessment System
| Activities | Number | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade | 1 | 50 |
| Contribution of final exam to overall grade | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 2 | 100 |
| Activities | Number | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 50 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Other Applications | 0 | 0 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 |
| Term Paper/ Project | 0 | 0 |
| Portfolio Study | 0 | 0 |
| Reports | 0 | 0 |
| Learning Diary | 0 | 0 |
| Thesis/ Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 1 | 50 |
Relation of Proficiency
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Recognizing fundamental legal concepts, defining, interpreting and using them. | X | ||||
| 2 | Recognizing fundamental disciplines of law and their content, including legislation, case-law and the doctrine in the relevant discipline. | X | ||||
| 3 | Recognizing positive norms in the legislation and being able to define and explain the principals of methodology. | X | ||||
| 4 | Being able to determine, identify and restate legal problems. | X | ||||
| 5 | Being able to use legal interpretation principals in an efficient manner in order to analyse and resolve a legal problem and in order to develop a strategy. | X | ||||
| 6 | Being able to conduct academic researches on legal problems and to propose solutions. | X | ||||
| 7 | Assuming responsibility individually or collectively for resolving complicated legal problems. | X | ||||
| 8 | Being able to criticise positive norms of the law system. | X | ||||
| 9 | Being able to explain technical legal knowledge in Turkish, French and English verbally or in writing, being able to report personal opinion concerning a legal problem verbally or in writing in a persuasive manner. | X | ||||
| 10 | Being able to follow up the local and international legal literature, to update technical legal knowledge permanently, to use information technology in an efficient manner in order to achieve these goals. | X | ||||
| 11 | Being able to conduct comparative academic researches between different law systems. | X | ||||
| 12 | Respecting human rights and universal principals and notions of law. | X | ||||
| 13 | Respecting the ethical standarts, good faith, fairness and equity principals. | X | ||||
| 14 | Being sensitive to social problems, democracy, laicism and rule of law principal. | X | ||||
ECTS
| Activities | Number | Period | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class Hours | 13 | 5 | 65 |
| Working Hours out of Class | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other Applications | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Term Paper/ Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Portfolio Study | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reports | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Learning Diary | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thesis/ Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total Workload | 121 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 | 4.84 | ||
| Credits ECTS | 5 | ||