The European Union is one of the world’s largest and most important economies, increasingly recognized as a threat by the current US administration. Therefore, its legal system and especially business law regulations have very significant roles. This course will provide students with an insight into the complex system of regulations that make European business law. The topics range from considering the basic structures and principles of the European Union to focusing on various areas of business law. In the first part, the course will give the students an understanding of the laws and policies that regulate the internal market of European Union, as well as relevant case law and guiding inputs from leading practitioners in the field. In the second part of the course, focus will be on the main legal acts that regulate various aspects of establishing and running a business within the European Union. In the final part, dedicated to business competition in Europe, we will go into more depth about how to compete on the internal market and protect brands, products, and inventions. This class should equip students with the fundamentals of the legal regulation of companies and other business entities and their commercial activities in the European Union’s internal market. Furthermore, students will increase awareness of the European Union’s law’s impact on the progressive harmonization of member states’ and candidate countries’ regulations, including the role of the European Union’s courts regulating European Union’s internal market. (Lecturer: Djuro Djuric)
