Aims

For graduates of business economics and business engineering a basic knowledge of the jurisdical rules that controle the economic activities is essential.
The whole of Law is one discipline with communal institutions, sources, methods and concepts. All laws come into existence according to a standard pattern. Statements of the court often concern problems from Procedural Law, as well as from other different branches of Law or the code (for example the civil code and the corporation code). 
Traditionally - especially for pedagogical reasons - National Law is divided into Public Law and Private Law (with further subdivisions). Private Law regulates the relationships between private persons (including corporations and government, when they act as entrepreneur) and Public Law regulates the functioning of State and the Law relationships between State and private persons.
The jurisdical rules that regulate economic activities can be found in several branches of Law: the Civil Law and Commercial Law that belong to Private Law, the Market Law concerning the government's regulation of and intervention on the market and that is mixed Public Law/Private Law, Tax Law, Administrative Law and even Criminal Law (all belonging to Public Law).
In this introductory course future economists will be familiarized with the jurisdical argumentation and fundamental principles of Law. Since economists are most often confronted with transactional linked jurisdical problems, the emphasis will be on Private Law. An introduction to Law of Obligations and Business Law (Branches of Civil Law) is necessary for a correct understandment of the jurisdical rules concerning direcly and specificly economic activities. Hence the title 'Introduction to Economic Law'. Economic Law includes classical Commercial Law (including Corporation Law) and Market Law.

Order of Enrolment

This course unit is a prerequisite for taking the following course units:
C03B0A : Commercial, Company and Economic Law (No longer offered this academic year)
C03B3A : Tax Law
C03B8A : Tutorial Methodology of Law
C02X8B : Tutorial Methodology of Law
C06X5A : Tutorial Methodology of Law (for Students working their way through University)

Identical courses

This course is identical to the following courses:
D0T01A : Introduction to Economic Law
D0H12A : Introduction to Economic Law
HBH60E : Introduction to Law
HBN56B : Introduction to Economic Law (No longer offered this academic year)

Is included in these courses of study

• Bachelor of Business Economics (Kortrijk) 180 ects.
• Bachelor of Linguistics and Literature (Programme for students started in 2023-2024 or later) (Kortrijk) (Module Business Economics) 180 ects.