• General Meeting
• European SA
• Piercing of the corporate veil
• Duties of care and loyalty
• Civil liability of managers
• Abusive deliberations
• Civil liability of shareholders for abusive resolutions
• Challenge of resolutions
• Resolutions of the Board of Directors
• Corporate law and digitalization
• Share capital
• Increase and decrease of share capital
• Managers’ liability insurance
• Shareholders’ agreements
• Management
• Right to information
• Sole proprietorship
• Profit and its distribution
• Ancillary obligations, supplementary benefits and supplies
• Dissolution and liquidation
• Division, merger and transformation of companies
• Right to dismissal and guardianship of partners in the Merger and Spin-off
• Transformation process: from report to registration, the deliberations in the transformation
• Immediate dissolution and administrative dissolution
• Administration and supervision
• Groups
• Environmental, social and corporate governance and purpose
• AI in corporate governance

PART I: LAW OF THE COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS IN GENERAL
Chapter I: Fundamental concepts of commercial contracts
PART II: LAW OF THE COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS IN SPECIAL
Chapter I: Commercial distribution contracts – Agency, commercial concession and franchising contracts
Chapter II: Merchandising contracts
Chapter III: Leasing contracts
Chapter IV: Factoring contracts
Chapter V: Bank guarantee
Chapter VI: Insurance contracts
Chapter VII: Contract of transport: in particular the case of maritime transport
Chapter VIII: Hardship clauses and change of circumstances

I. Social Sciences and the knowledge of reality – conceptualization.
II. Scientific work in Social Sciences: the profile of the researcher in science; ethics in research; the scientific research process.
III. Scientific research in legal science: epistemological perspective, methodology and research techniques.
IV. Structural and discursive organization in scientific communication: the APA standard; quoting and referencing; elements of written works and dissertations.
V. Digital research and bibliographic reference in law.

1. General notions on Industrial Property
   1.1. Industrial Property and Innovation.
2. Legal regimes of industrial property
   2.1. Patents, utility models
   2.2 Topography of semiconductor products
   2.3. Drawings or Models,
   2.4. Trademark
   2.5. Rewards
   2.6. Logo
   2.7. Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications
   2.8. Other distinctive trade signs
   2.9. Unfair competition
   2.10. Business secrets
3. International Industrial Property Regime
   3.1. European, Community and international Patent
   3.2. European Union Trademark
   3.3. International Registration
4. Current Issues of Industrial Property
   4.1. Non-traditional trademarks
   4.2. Olfactory trademarks.
   4.3. NFT (non-fungible token).
   4.4. Can Artificial Intelligence systems file and register Industrial Property rights?

• International insolvency;
• Civil and criminal liability in insolvency;
• Contracts and effects of the declaration of insolvency;
• Insolvency and labour law;
• Extrajudicial and judicial reorganisation of companies;
• Insolvency of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises;
• The future of insolvency law.

Free Elective I

The “Free Elective” unit must be selected from among the curricular units offered across all ESTG degree programmes and made available for this purpose, under the guidance of the higher education institution.

Competition and Consumer Law

Part I: Competition Law

1. Foundations of Competition Law
2. Legal and economic framework for the defense of competition at national and European level
3. Anti-competitive practices and merger control (
4. The administrative and private competition litigation
   Part II: Consumer Law
5. Introduction to Consumer Law
6. Consumer contracts in general
7. Consumer contracts in particular
   4.Judicial and extrajudicial resolution of consumer disputes

Company Tax Law

• Corporate Taxation Principles
• The taxation of dividends
• The special taxation of corporate groups
• Subsidiary tax liability and reversion
• Tax infringements
• VAT taxation of companies
• Corporate income tax

Social Responsability in Business

• The Fundamentals and the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility
• Dimensions of Corporate Social Responsibility
• Indicators of practices of Corporate Social Responsibility
• Institutions and associations to promote Corporate Social Responsibility
• Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility for SMEs
• The guidelines and the study of the Portuguese case

• Historical evolution
• The constitutional protection and the diferent forms of idealizing the social security
• The principles of the social security system
• The social security juridical relationship

• International Labour Law.
• Instruments of collective labour regulation.
• Trade unions and employers associations.
• Workers’ committees and other employee associations.
• Collective labour disputes.

• Dependent and independent work.
• Contract elaboration and irregularities.
• Employment contract, personal rights and fundamental rights.
• Protection of specific legal situations.
• Employment contracts with a special regime and modalities of employment contracts.
• Business organization and work relationship.
• Auxillary clauses of the employment contract.
• Duration and organization of working time.
• Contract modification and termination.
• Termination of employment.
• Professional training.

I – Labour conflicts: types and management
II – Individual labour dispute resolution

1. Negotiation and social agreement
2. Labour mediation
3. Conciliation
4. Arbitration: specificities

III – Collective labour dispute resolution

1. Dispute resolution prediction in collective agreements
2. Collective labour dispute resolution mechanisms

Free Elective II

The “Free Elective” unit must be selected from among the curricular units offered across all ESTG degree programmes and made available for this purpose, under the guidance of the higher education institution.

Work-related Accidents and Diseases

1. Accident at work and occupational disease
2. The evolution
3. Legal regime for accidents at work
4. The concept of an accident at work
5. Objective and subjective civil liability
   a. The. Generating liability
   b. Damage
   c. Causal link between the fact and the damage
   d. Indemnity
6. Mandatory insurance
7. Occupational diseases
8. The processes arising from accidents at work and occupational diseases
9. The impact of accidents at work and occupational diseases on the employment contract

Procedural Labour Law

• Labor offenses.
• Precautionary proceedings.
• Common declaratory proceedings.
• Special declaratory proceedings.
• Executive proceedings.

Health and Safety at Work

• Legal framework.
• Occupational risk prevention system.
• The employer’s obligations with regard to HSW.
• Worker rights and duties with regard to HSW.
• The right to safety at work and the personality rights of workers and jobseekers.
• Workers’ occupational safety and health representatives.
• Occupational safety services.
• Occupational health services.
• Protection against special risks.
• Safety and health at work – sectors in particular.

Dissertation

The student should develop a scientific paper on a topic related to the scientific areas of the course.This school year students will undertake work in the following areas:

• Commercial Contracts
• Labour Law
• Social Security
• Insolvency
• Consumer Law
• Labor Dispute Resolution

Project

Students must develop a Project that aims to solve a pratical problem related with one or more subjects of the course.

Internship

To be defined at each internship. The internship will take place according with the fields of study of the study cicle.