wir320 - Advanced Private Law (Complete module description)

Basic knowledge of Private Law

Upon completion of the module, students will:

• understand the content of the concepts of property law.
• understand the principles of property law.
• understand the system of tort law.
• know the relationship between property law and tort law in comparison to contract law.

The module gives the students an introduction to tort law and property law. Non-contractual liability law is the basic prerequisite for understanding business-related topics such as professional and manager liability.
The subject matter of tort law is the obligation to compensation on a non-contractual basis. Furthermore, the students shall learn that for the functioning of a free market economy the allocation, the content, as well as the marketability of property rights are of central importance. Property law deals especially with the legal relations of persons to things. It arranges these relationships both according to their legal intensity as well as to their factual influence. Following contents will be discussed in the module:
• History, function and basic concepts of non-contractual liability
• Basic and special acts of tort (liability) in the Civil Code
• Liability outside the Civil Code
• Producer and product liability
• Liability regardless of negligence or fault outside the Civil Code (e.g. environmental liability, liability in genetic engineering, drug, nuclear and data protection law)
• Damage concept and damage calculation
• Introduction to the basic concepts of property law
• Acquisition and loss of property
• Credit protection
• Rights in rem

Wolf/Wellenhofer, Sachenrecht, 33. Aufl., 2017.
Kötz/Wagner, Deliktsrecht, (13. Aufl.). 2016.
Fuchs/Pauker/Baumgärtner, Delikts- und Schadensersatzrecht, 9. Aufl., 2016.

Visiting the following lecture is recommended:
Practicing exercise for Specialization in Civil Law

differ according to type of examination

exam or
term paper or
seminar paper and presentation oder
oral exam