Course: Securities Law

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Course title Securities Law
Course code SPK/NPCP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kotásek Josef, doc. JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Černý Michal, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Hamuľáková Klára, JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Schedule of lessons in summer semester of academic year 2020/21: 26.02.21, 12.03.21, 26.03.21 (15:00-18:15). In the academic year 2020/21, teaching is carried out contactlessly, by making available records of presentations (and additionally also materials for printing). Lecture Topics: 1. Introduction to the Securities Law (the term, types, main terms), sources - the historical development, current sources, regulation draft in the upcoming codification, main principals of the Securities Law, the emission theory. Individual types of the Securities Law and its submission into the system of securities. 2. Corporate Securities. 3. Bonds in the Czech and European law, bond holders status 4. Allonges in the Czech and European law. Foreign and self- allonges - basic principles, primary and secondary exclusions of causal objections, comparison with the "negotiability conception " in the Anglo-American Securities Law. 5. Terms of the allonge and its emission, emission theory of the Securities Law, bill aval, blank bill 6. Negotiation of a bill (of exchange), status of the legal holder of a bill, comparison with the legal regulation in the Anglo- American area. Administration of the law and procedural aspects.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this subject is to privide orietation in the legal regulations within the Securities Law, law principles as well as economic importance of effects. Students will be acquainted with so called Emission theory and Securities classification. Parts of the interpretation are comparative exceedings;overlaps (especially comparison with the Ango-American negotiability conception and holder in due course doctrine) as well as czech and oversea judicature anylysis (primarily in the Law of Exchange, which is in Europe unified thanks to Geneva "single law of exchange"). As the Business Corporations subject focuses on shares, in this subject the attention is paid to one particular type of securities, namely allonges. Of the other securities, this course also deals mainly with bonds and, marginally, with checks and certain commodity securities.
Students who have completed this course will gain the knowledge of the securities on the national and international level. Students who have completed this course will be prepared to perfectly orientate themselves in the Securities Law questions.
Prerequisites
Completion of this course is not conditional upon completion of some other courses.

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark

Student must successfully pass the exam (final test). The test for exam includes theoretical and theoretical and application issues. The student demonstrates knowledge of securities law by both tests. Examination final test is processed via EDIS (http://edis.upol.cz ).
Recommended literature
  • Kotásek, J. (2005). Bill of Exchange Law: multimediální učební text. 1. vydání.. Mu, Brno.
  • Kotásek, J. (2007). Námitky směnečných dlužníků. 1. vydání.. Tribun EU, Brno.
  • Kotásek, J. (2006). Směnečné právo - komentář k čl. I zákona směnečného a šekového.. Prospektum, Praha.
  • Kotásek, J. (2002). Úvod do směnečného práva. MU, Brno.
  • Kotásek, J.:. (2013). Zákon směnečný a šekový. Komentář.. Praha : Wolters Kluwer.
  • Kotásek, J.-Pokorná,J.-Raban, P. a kol. (2005). Kurs obchodního práva. Právo cenných papírů. In Kurs obchodního práva. Právo cenných papírů. 4. vydání. od s. 163-202, 728. C. H. Beck, Praha.
  • Lavický, P. a kol. (2014). Občanský zákoník I. Obecná část (§1 - 654). Komentář. 1.vydání.. Praha: C.H.Beck.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Law Study plan (Version): Law (2010) Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Law Study plan (Version): Law (2010X) Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer