Basic Business Law

2024/2025

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The module provides a fundamental understanding of key elements of legal method, company law, contracts for international sales of goods, EU-law and international private law.

Through the module, the students gain basic legal skills in relation to the above-mentioned legal areas applied in a commercial economic context. In the module, the students will e.g., work with fundamental EU law, international buying and selling and company law.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

The objective is that the student after the module possesses the necessary knowledge on:

  • Basic application of legal method.
  • Basic principles of business law, contracts for international sales of goods, and international private law.
  • Basic EU law

Skills

The objective is that the student after the module possesses the necessary skills in:

  • systematize basic legal issues.
  • assess the solution of specific legal problems.
  • presenting a solution to a basic legal problem

Competences

The objective is that the student after the module possesses the necessary competences in:

  • identifying basic business law problems.
  • plan their own learning within business law.
  • organizing work involving legal issues.

Type of instruction

For information see § 17.

Exam

Exams

Name of examBasic Business Law
Type of exam
Written exam
Individual exam
ECTS5
Permitted aidsSee the Course Description on Moodle for details.
Assessment7-point grading scale
Type of gradingInternal examination
Criteria of assessmentThe criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures

Facts about the module

Danish titleBasic Business Law
Module codeJUR-AND-1-24
Module typeCourse
Duration1 semester
SemesterAutumn
ECTS5
Language of instructionEnglish
Location of the lectureCampus Aalborg
Responsible for the module

Organisation

Education ownerBachelor of Science (BSc) in Economics and Business Administration
Study BoardStudy Board of Law
DepartmentDepartment of Law
FacultyFaculty of Social Sciences and Humanities