1. Polish Commercial Law Course Outline
Dr hab. Krzysztof Oplustil
Dr Marek Porzycki
Dr Marcin Spyra

2. Course parts Company law (dr hab. K. Oplustil)
Secured transactions, enforcing claims and insolvency law (dr Marek Porzycki)
Capital market law (dr Marcin Spyra)
Aim: to provide an introductory overview of Polish commercial law

3. Exam Written form 3 essay questions, one for each part of the course
Exact dates in June to be announced

4. Organizational
Course website: on=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid= 168 or: (Katedra Polityki Gospodarczej, Chair for Economic Policy, also accessible via „Jednostki” from the main page of the JU Law Faculty)  „Dydaktyka”  „Polish Commercial Law”

5. Company law – types of companies and partnerships
Civil partnership (Civil Code, no legal capacity, no legal personality)
Commercial partnerships (Code of Commercial Companies, legal capacity, no legal personality)
registered partnership
limited partnership
limited joint-stock partnership
professional partnership
Companies (corporations) (CCC, legal capacity and full legal personality)
limited liability company
joint-stock company

6. Secured transactions
guarantees and other ways of securing claims by liability of third parties
collateral arrangements (rights in rem)
mortgage
pledge
registered pledge
title transfer (not proper right in rem but a similar economic function)

7. Enforcement of claims and insolvency law
enforcement of claims from a solvent debtor (in principle) – enforcement proceedings under the Code of Civil Procedure
proceedings applicable against an insolvent debtor – bankruptcy proceedings under the Law on Bankruptcy and Rehabilitation

8. Financial market law Financial instruments and securities
Structure of the capital market
Trading in financial instruments
debt financing - bonds market