BUS& 201 - Business Law I

• Identify strategies in how to review Case Studies.
• Recognize, describe, and apply correct legal terminology to basic legal concepts and selected areas of law affecting business transactions.
• Recognize and describe ethical issues in business, including their legal implications.
• Solve legal problems and questions using critical thinking methods
• Explain relationship between U.S. law and foreign jurisdictions and, in particular, the international commercial law of contracts.

1. Introduction to law, sources of law and legal thinking
2. Ethics and Social Responsibility in Business
3. Structure of the Courts and Alternate dispute resolution
4. Basic Civil Procedure
5. Introductory international law issues for US consideration
6. Constitutional Authority to regulate business
7. Intentional torts, negligence, strict liability and products liability
8. Criminal law and business
9. Real property and landlord/tenant law
10. Wills, estate and elder law
11. Extensive coverage of contracts: elements, analysis, performance, discharge, breach of contract and contracts in cyber space
12. Business organizations (sole proprietorship, partnerships, corporations) law for small business
13. Agency law
14. Employment law
15. Government regulation and business
16. Professional liability and ethics recap
17. Intellectual Property
18. Intro to the UCC, Article 2: Sales Contracts
19. Will, Estates, & Trusts, Insurance, Personal Property & Bailments
20. Personal property and bailments
21. Negotiable instruments and banking
22. Creditor rights and bankruptcy
23. Secured transactions
24. More extensive Art. 2 and warranty
25. Corporations and securities law