Class Contracts and General Conditions

This UC intends to deepen the knowledge of LLM students in the field of civil contracts, as well as improving their legal skills to act professionally in business law. It also intends to enable students to apply this knowledge in their legal professions and to be able to understand case law on problematic standard contract terms.

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1. Practical relevance of standard contract terms and optimization of business 2. Reasons for legal regulation of standard contract terms; 3. Standard contract terms control mechanisms; 4. Inclusion control: problematic aspects; 5. Content control system; 6. Critical assessment of the general principle of content control; 7. Analysis of the legal catalog of prohibited terms; 8. Function and practical scope of the abstract control; 9. Analytical examination of the most frequent unfair contract terms in various types of contracts; 10.The transnational character of contemporary contract law: European private law and the articulation between the domestic legal system and European Union law; 11. Conclusion: the economic and social dimensions of contract.

Innovative methodologies to support the teaching-learning process: case study; case law;  PBL; Flipped classroom.

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