Business Law and Ethics

Catalog description

This course examines the legal and ethical environment of business with particular attention to principles of law relating to business operations. The course emphasizes how organizational leaders identify, address, minimize, and prevent legal and ethical issues in areas of law important to business including: constitutional law; properly law, with a focus on intellectual property; contract law, including UCC Article 2, Statute of Frauds remedies, and e-commerce; tort law, including intentional, negligence, strict, and product liability; criminal law, including cybercrime, white-collar crime, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; regulatory law; agency and employment law; international law; forms of business organization; bankruptcy law; and litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Finally, students will be expected to apply critical thinking and legal reasoning to consider both the legal and ethical impacts of decision-making and business practice.