Introduction to Law

Description

Students acquire a balanced legal grounding in order to apply it to business economic situations. As a result, this course should not be considered on its own but must be situated in a business economic context. The course is an introduction to legal science, basic structures of legal systems, legal terminology, and legal reasoning. The business economic context refers to the importance of law for the regulation of business economic situations and contracts. The course has an international, European and comparative perspective. In this course, the following key objectives are (partially or fully) realized: From a multidisciplinary perspective (and on the economic, legal, historic and social level), situates, analyses and evaluates the main powers and policies of international organisations regarding international trade and investment. Explains general problems of (business) economics in a legal way using a selection of relevant sources of law as well as the functional knowledge of law. The position of the course in the framework of the learning objectives of the programme can be found under the section “Objectives” of the “Bachelor of Business Administration (Brussels)”.