Department: Bachelor of Law
Module Description: This module aims to introduce students to principles of commercial law and familiarize them with the framework and mechanisms of commercial law and provide them with knowledge of the main principles of commercial law. The module covers the legal framework of commercial law and the application of fundamental principles to business transactions in the domestic and international sphere, including the nature of commercial law; contract law (formation of contracts, validity of contracts, performance, breach, termination & remedies for breach); traders and commercial activities; business entities; commercial papers; law of agency (authority of an agent, duties of an agent etc); UAE Commercial Agencies Law; the UAE Civil Transactions Code and Commercial Transactions Law; tort law and criminal law in the business context; movable and immovable properties, transfer of title; real estate laws; landlord-tenant relations.
The module coordinator will provide students with mandatory texts on UAE Law, prepared purposefully for this particular module.
D S El Alami and K El Alami, The Commercial Code of the United Arab Emirates: Federal Law No. 19 1993, the Law of Commercial Transactions (Lexgulf Publishers Ltd, 2011).
R Goode & E McKendrick (eds), Goode on Commercial Law (6th edn Penguin, 2020).
N. Ryder, M. Griffiths & L. Singh, Commercial Law: Principles and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
A Liuzzo, Essentials of Business Law, (12th edn, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2025).
M J Loewenstein & R W Hillman (eds), Agency and Partnership Law (Edward Elgar, 2018)
B Cave, Business Laws of the Middle East: The United Arab Emirates (Kluwer Law International, 1999)
N James, Business Law, (6th edn., Wiley, 2022).
The International Sale of Goods 4th ed., Michael Bridge (2017)
The Sale of Goods 4th ed., M G Bridge (2019)
Transnational Commercial Law: Texts, Cases and Materials 2nd ed., Roy Goode, Herbert Kronke, and Ewan McKendrick (2015)
Transnational Commercial Law: Texts, Cases and Materials 2nd ed., Roy Goode, Herbert Kronke, and Ewan McKendrick (2015)
