Course content
Purpose
The Minor in Law and Entrepreneurship provides a unique perspective on international law, legal startup and tech-law.
The minor provides a 22,5 ECTS-package in the autumn semester at CBS jointly with the students at the HA(jur.) (BSc in Business administration and Commercial law).
The minor has a specific focus on:
- international commercial law
- startup law
- legal block-chain law
- web3
International commercial law is a general business law course focussing on commercial transactions from a legal perspective, concerning, commercial litigation and arbitration as well as choice of law for contracts and the regulation of international sales of goods.
Startup law is a scenario-based course on various legal and adjacent strategic areas affecting a startup business situation.
Legal block-chain and web3 presents issues concerning block-chain as a new technology and how it interacts with the law.
Content
International commercial law
This course has a specific business perspective to the law. The course presents and discusses the legal issues concerning how to operate on the global market, including the EU. The course consists of the legal framework for international contracts and international dispute settlement through arbitration and litigation. Furthermore, the course discusses how businesses comply with commercial EU law and international commercial law to enter, perform and if necessary, enforce international commercial contracts.
Startup law
This course covers the legal areas most startups will face. This is for example intellectual property, data protection, tax or raising finance from the perspective of a founder who needs to anticipate legal issues that may be relevant for its startup or team members with an in-house counsel kind of role. It will manly apply an EU law perspective and in some case a national law perspective.
Legal block-chain law and web3
The content of this course is to present and discuss legal issue on data, IT and blockchain in general, for example bitcoin and Ethereum. The course will furthermore provide more specific and applied areas that raise legal issues such as smart contracts, distributed autonomous organisations, distributed finance, or non-fungible tokens, each contained in weekly modules. At this course an EU perspective will be applied, although in some instances national rules will also be applied.