Fashion Law

Catalog description

Fashion Law provides primarily Human Ecology students and students with a fashion major or minor with an insight into the law surrounding the fashion industry. Topics will include starting and running a label and will introduce students to the common legal questions faced in the fashion industry, including how to choose and form a business entity, structure the ownership of the business, how to draft contracts with employees and work with independent contractors, protecting intellectual property and avoiding infringing others' intellectual property, and what the laws of antitrust and competition allow and punish. Assessment will be through a multiple choice and short answer exam.