Penal Aspects of Economic Relations
The aim:
1. Student indicates regulations regarding criminal aspects of economic transactions in national, EU and international regulations.
2. Student is able to solve basic legal problems related to criminal liability in business.
3. Student determines the actual conditions of business activity.
Acquired knowledge:
1. Student recognizes the basic concepts and principles of criminal liability and the catalog of crimes against economic transactions.
2. Student indicates economic and organizational factors important in economic transactions.
3. Student indicates the regulations relating to intellectual property in the company’s activities.
4. Student indicates the regulations and methods of resolving disputes arising from running a business under EU and international law.
Acquired skills:
1. Student explains the socio-economic conditions of criminal liability in business.
2. Student solves simple cases of criminal liability in business activities.
Acquired social skills:
1. Student draws conclusions regarding criminal liability related to performing specific roles in business transactions.
2. Student justifies the need to update knowledge regarding the criminal aspects of running a business.
Course contents:
1. Principles of criminal liability.
2. Circumstances excluding criminal liability.
3. The purposes of punishment. Penalties and punitive measures.
4. Characteristics of selected white collar crimes (money laundering ect.).
5. Characteristics of selected white collar crimes (theft, Ponzi scheme, ect.).
6. Penal aspects of corporate business.
Recommended reading:
1. Criminal law in Poland, K. Kremens, W. Jasiński, Wolters Kluwer. Alphen aan den Rijn 2019.
Additional reading:
1. White-collar criminal : the offender in business and the professions, Gilbert Geis, editor., New Brunswick. London 2007.
2. An introduction to international criminal law and procedure, Robert Cryer, Hakan Friman, Darryl Robinson, Elizabeth Wilmshurst., Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2016.