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This syllabus outlines a business law course that aims to provide students with a legal foundation for business operations. The course will cover topics such as business organizations, company formation, raising capital, insolvency, and contract law. Students will learn fundamental legal terms and concepts in English using the textbook Professional English in Use: Law. Assessment includes class participation, a mid-term exam on company law, and a final exam testing knowledge of company law, contract law, and alternative dispute resolution. The goal is for students to develop skills in reading and understanding basic legal documents and applying legal principles to business situations.

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Business Law Syllabus Lecturer: Khuong Thi Quynh Huong, LLM: Huongkq@neu - Edu.vn

This syllabus outlines a business law course that aims to provide students with a legal foundation for business operations. The course will cover topics such as business organizations, company formation, raising capital, insolvency, and contract law. Students will learn fundamental legal terms and concepts in English using the textbook Professional English in Use: Law. Assessment includes class participation, a mid-term exam on company law, and a final exam testing knowledge of company law, contract law, and alternative dispute resolution. The goal is for students to develop skills in reading and understanding basic legal documents and applying legal principles to business situations.

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BUSINESS LAW SYLLABUS

Lecturer: Khuong Thi Quynh Huong, LLM


[email protected]

1. Introduction
This subject is for students who are studying Actuary major at the National Economics
University (NEU). It provides students with the legal foundation necessary for
business operations and sale but also affords the students the opportunities to analyse
critically the social and political environments in which the law is made and in which
businesses must operate. Specifically, the course aims to provide a basic knowledge
regarding legal study and the four fundamental academic study skills with particular
emphasis on reading and writing within a legal context. This course will also look at
strategies for improving students’ soft skills in note-taking, drafting legal documents,
as well as speaking in English.
2. Language Proficiency
It is assumed that students undertaking this course have achieved the following level
of language proficiency: Intermediate level or upper-intermediate level of English.
3. Course material
The course book is Professional English in Use: Law (Cambridge) Gillian O. Brown
and Sally Rice. The book consists of 45 two-page units organised into 4 sections: the
Legal system, Legal professionals, Legal professionals in practice, and Law in
practice. The units proceed from general legal topics to more specific.
Each unit consists 2 pages, the left-hand page presents legal terms and
expressions in context and the right-hand page is design to let student check and
develop your understanding of them and how they are used through the series of
exercises. Keys terms and expressions may occur in more than one unit.
Some of the exercises, including the Over to you activities at the end of each
unit are designed for discussion or writing about the legal jurisdiction you study
in.
Website addresses at the bottom of the right-hand pages give link to further
information in English on related legal topics.
Handouts covering a variety of Legal English topics, terms and vocabulary will be
provided in class throughout the course.
4. Outcomes
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
(i) read through some basic legal documents and be familiar with fundamental legal
terms and concepts in English;
(ii) Understand the business organisations - Types of business entities with their
legal characteristics and the Law apply to them;
(iii) Understand the essential elements of a valid contract in a business context & be
able to apply the elements of a contract in a business situations.
5. Teaching and Learning Methods
The teaching method of this course is guided by the conviction that student in NEU is
an autonomous, self-motivated individual.
(i) Student-centred, task-based and collaborative;
(ii) Using the method of “learning by doing”, directly engaging students in problem
solving activities.
6. Subject Content
Week 1: Unit 19 Business organisations; Unit 20 Formation of a company
https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/setting-up
Week 2: Unit 21Raising capital by share sale
http://www.lawdonut.co.uk/business/business-ownership-and-management/shares-
and-shareholders/issuing-and-transferring-private-company-shares-faqs
Week 3: Unit 22 Debt financing: secured lending
https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/4-501-
3222?__lrTS=20170415103324220&transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Defaul
t)&firstPage=true&bhcp=1
Week 4: Unit 23 Company directors and company secretaries
https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/appoint-directors-and-company-
secretaries
Week 5: Unit 24 Insolvency and winding up
Week 6: Unit 25 Alternative dispute resolution
Week 7: Unit 26 Corporation tax
https://www.gov.uk/corporation-tax
Week 8: Revision & Mid-term examination
Week 9: Unit 31 Forming a contract 1;
Week 10: Unit 32 Forming a contract 2
Week 11: Unit 33: Structure of a commercial contract
Week 12: Unit 34: Express and Implied terms
Week 13: Unit 35: Exclusion, limitation and standard clauses
Week 14: Unit 36: Privity of contract, discharge, and remedies
Week 15: Revision
7. Assessment
- Attendance and participation: 10%
- A mid-term examination (40%): Test on knowledge of company law;
- A final exam at the end of the term (50%): 30% test on knowledge of company law,
60% test on knowledge of contract law, 10% test on knowledge of ADR.
8. References:
- Foundations of the legal environment of business, Marianne Moody Jennings
(Arizona State University).
- International Legal English, (Cambridge) Amy Knois Lindner,
- Business Law textbook, Faculty of Law, National Economics University
- Vietnamese legal normative documents

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