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Presentation
Presentation
This course unit aims to familiarize students with the legal framework governing organized economic activity, focusing on contracts, the company, and its legal forms of organization. It also seeks to develop competencies regarding the legal regime of contracts and commercial companies, including operations such as merger, demerger, transformation, and dissolution.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Bachelor | Semestral | 5
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
1 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULP7018-26499
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
1. Contracts 1.1. The concept of contract. 1.2. Contract as a legal instrument of economic collaboration. 1.3. The legal regime of contracts in general. Companies 2.1. Concept. 2.2. Types of companies. 2.3. Legal personality of commercial companies. 2.4. Obligations and rights of shareholders. 2.5. Shareholders' resolutions. 2.6. Corporate governance. 2.7. Transformation, merger, and division of companies. Dissolution and liquidation of companies.
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Objectives
Objectives
The central objective of the course is to familiarize students with the law governing organized economic activity, with a focus on contracts, companies, and the forms of their legal organization as the central themes of the program. It is considered essential to promote skills from the perspective of their private legal regulation and the environment in which business activities operate. In the first part, the legal regime of contracts will be studied with a view to obtaining in-depth knowledge of this privileged instrument of economic collaboration. Next, commercial companies will be addressed as a privileged form of legal organization for businesses. The aim is for students to acquire skills that enable them to understand the regulatory framework governing commercial companies as well as related operations such as mergers, splits, transformations, and dissolution.
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Teaching methodologies
Teaching methodologies
The evaluation methodology is based on expository and active methods. The expository methodologies are used to transmit the basic knowledge of the curricular unit, while the active methodologies will be implemented through the performance of exercises and/or practical works where the ability of students to work in groups is stimulated, favoring the deepening of the themes in a motivating perspective their creativity and at the same time the application of the acquired knowledge.
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References
References
Paulo Olavo Cunha; Direito das Sociedades Comerciais , Almedina, 2019. ISBN: 9789724079646 H. Hörster; A parte geral do Código Civil português. Teoria geral do Direito civil, Almedina, 2011 Carlos Ferreira de Almeida; ;Contratos I: Conceito, fontes, formação, Almedina, 2008 Jorge Leite Areias Ribeiro Faria; Direito das Obrigações - VOL I, Almedina, 2003. ISBN: 9789724004556 Jorge Leite Areias Ribeiro Faria; ;Direito das Obrigações - Vol. II, Almedina, 2001. ISBN: 9789724004563
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Assessment
Assessment
Descrição dos instrumentos de avaliação (individuais e de grupo) ¿ testes, trabalhos práticos, relatórios, projetos... respetivas datas de entrega/apresentação... e ponderação na nota final.
Exemplo:
Descrição
Data limite
Ponderação
Teste de avaliação
dd-mm-yyyy
30%
Portfolio
dd-mm-yyyy
40%
(...)
Adicionalmente poderão ser incluídas informações gerais, como por exemplo, referência ao tipo de acompanhamento a prestar ao estudante na realização dos trabalhos; referências bibliográficas e websites úteis; indicações para a redação de trabalho escrito...
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Mobility
Mobility
No
