Legal Issues for Executive Leaders

Catalog description

This course will investigate the intersections of the multidisiplinary fields of education, health care, business and social work, as well as strengthening the basic knowledge of legal issues within each specific discipline. This multidisciplinary approach to legal issues allows for a broader dialogue from wider perspectives. This course is not intended to be an in-depth investigation of any one discipline, but rather their intersection and relevance to one another. Students will contribute knowledge and investigate specific issues relative to educational organizations with the outcome to develop a practical framework for comparing and contrasting the legal issues in various disciplines. The course will cover constitutional law as it applies to various disciplines. The course will cover constitutional law as it applies to various settings, labor law issues, civil rights, governance, regulatory compliance, contract law, legal issues relative to finance, among other areas. The course provides students with a working knowledge of the law regarding such issues as well as a functional ability to identify and analyze such legal issues and to ascertatin the state of the law their regard.