Criminal Business Law

Brief description

Overview of the following sub-areas and selected legal issues:
Prosecution of and combating white-collar crime, criminal liability and impunity, sanctions, typical general white-collar offences, special abuse offences, creditor protection offences, accounting offences, money laundering, corruption offences, protection of business and trade secrets, computer criminal law, intellectual property criminal law, unfair competition, investor protection, capital market criminal law and violation of banking secrecy, food criminal law, environmental offences, financial criminal law, criminal procedure law

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Printed edition of the Austrian Criminal Code “KODEX Strafrecht 2022"
M. Eder-Rieder (2019), Einführung in das Wirtschaftsstrafrecht, (currently 5th edition) NWV.
Further course materials (in particular power point-slides) will be distributed by the lecturer.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lecture, assignments, student participation, student presentations, brainstorming, legal research, case discussion and analyses, legal writing.

Assessment methods and criteria

Written final exam (70%); Continuous assessment, student participation, group discussion and analysis of legal problems (30%)
Content-related assessment criteria: degree of problem identification and problem characterisation, complexity of the solutions.
Formal criteria: completeness of the answers, task-specific requirements, linguistic differentiation of the presentation of results.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

none

Infos

Degree programme

European Economy & Business Management (Bachelor)

Cycle

Bachelor

ECTS Credits

3.00

Language of instruction

German

Curriculum

Full-Time

Academic year

2024

Semester

4 SS

Incoming

No

Learning outcome

After successful completion of this course, students can
· explain principles of criminal law and typcial white collar-crimes, rights of criminal defendants, court organisation and criminal procedure,
· argue legally in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure, both in speaking and in writing,
· analyse and solve practical cases relating to criminal law, in particular the subsumption of criminal offences and violations of procedural rights.

Course code

0389-20-01-VZ-DE-46c