本课程是为法律系本科生开设的学科专业类必修课，属于国务院学位委员会确定的法学核心课程。经济法作为调整市场经济关系的重要法律，在市场经济发展过程中 发挥着巨大的作用，在整个国家法律体系中处于重要地位。通过开设本课程，使学生全面了解经济法的地位与作用，理解掌握经济法的主要内容，了解经济法与其它 部门法之间的联系及区别。由此起到完善法学专业学生知识结构的重要作用。Economic Law--In the legal system of the Soviet Union, economic law was the legal theory and system under which economic relations were a legal discipline independent of criminal law and civil law.In the Law of the United States and some other legal systems this approximately corresponds to the commercial law (business law).