ANTALYA BİLİM UNIVERSITY
Course Information Package

BUSI 306 - Business Law

Basic Information

Course Code:
BUSI 306
Course Name:
Business Law
Language of Instruction:
English
Course Type:
Class
Course Level:
Bachelor
ECTS:
5.00
Instructor:
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi MİNE KARAYALÇIN

Course Objectives

Comprehending the general principles of business law

Course Content

Doing business involves many risks, involving legal ones. A successful and prudent entrepreneur or businessperson should be able to foresee and understand the risks before investing in a domestic or a foreign market and should have the sufficient background about the techniques to minimize them. As business law is based mainly on the transactions and recently more and moresmaller businesses are involved in international trade, this course will concentrate on the international aspect of different transaction types that are crucial to trade. The objective of this course is to familiarize and sensitize future entrepreneurs and businesspersons to the main legal risks that surround the international trade and the tools to minimize such risks, by focusing on the different rules of various national laws as well international legal instruments that harmonize and unify the rules of international trade. The main topics that will be covered throughout the semester arethe sources of international commercial law and legal risks, company incorporation, comparative law, joint ventures, franchise contracts, international sales, agency, IP rights, payment systems, transportation, trade finance and international commercial dispute resolution. These topics will be discussed in the lectures by adopting a functional approach to help business students to connectabstract legal knowledge to business strategies.

Prerequisites / Corequisites

NA

Course Books / Materials / Recommended Resources

DiMatteo, Larry A (2021). International Business Law and the Legal Environment: A Transactional Approach, 4th Edition, Routledge. Budak, Ali Cem and Yağcı, Mustafa Okan (2020). Introduction to Turkish Business Law Cases & Materials, Adalet. Ansay, Tuğrul and Schneider, Eric C. (2014). Introduction to Turkish Business Law, Wolters Kluwer.

Learning Outcomes

Code Description
LO1 Analyzing Business Structures and Corporate Liability
LO2 Managing National and International Commercial Contracts
LO3 Structuring Trade Finance, Payment Systems, and Logistics
LO4 Applying Intellectual Property, Competition, and Corporate Governance Rules
LO5 Evaluating Dispute Resolution and Emerging Legal Trends

Weekly Course Content

Week Content
1 Introduction
2 The Legal Climate Surrounding Businesses: the function of the law to eliminate business risks, Turkish and comparative commercial law in general, international legal instruments regulating trade
3 Starting the Business: commercial enterprise, merchant, ordinary partnership, general information on commercial companies
4 Starting the Business: corporations, legal personality, piercing the corporate veil, joint venture
5 Doing Business: business transactions, B2B sales contracts
6 Doing Business: international B2B sales law, standard terms in contracts, damages
7 Doing Business: franchising & distribution contracts, agency & other intermediaries
8 Midterm Exam
9 Doing Business: payment systems & trade finance Student presentations
10 Doing Business: transport of goods, documentary transactions Student presentations
11 Doing Business: IP rights, licensing, unfair competition, competition law
12 People in Business: employees, shareholders, managers, directors, auditors, potential buyers, creditors
13 Changes in the Business: structural changes and closing the business Student presentations
14 Commercial Dispute Resolution: commercial courts & jurisdiction in Turkey, mediation, arbitration Current topics: environmental protection & law, the law on AI Student presentations
15 Student presentations

Workload Calculation

Activity Count Duration (Hours) Total
Attendance 3 14.00 42.00
Pre-Class Individual Study 1 104.00 104.00
Midterm Exam/Preparation 1 2.00 2.00
Final Exam/Preparation 1 2.00 2.00
Total Workload (Hours) 150
ECTS Credit (Workload / 25) 5

Assessment

# Assessment Type Contribution (%)
1 Midterm Exam %40
2 Final Exam %60
TOTAL %100

PO - LO Matrix

PO \ LO
LO1
LO2
LO3
LO4
LO5
PO-1
PO-2
PO-3
PO-4
PO-5
PO-6
PO-7
PO-8
PO-9
PO-10
PO-11
PO-12
1
Low Contribution
2
Medium Contribution
3
High Contribution

Teaching and Learning Methods

# Method Name Description Tools
1 Lecture (expository teaching), interactive discussion Listening and taking notes. Standard classroom technologies, multimedia tools (projector, computer, digital presentations)
2 Controversial Course Listening and comprehension, critical thinking Standard classroom technologies, multimedia tools, projector, computer, overhead projector

Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence

Plagiarism is using the words or ideas of others and presenting them as your own. Plagiarism is a type of intellectual theft. It can take many forms, from deliberate cheating to accidentally copying from a source without acknowledgement. You are expected to be sensitive in this issue.