Legal Aspects of Business

Catalog description

Through lectures and practical exercises, students examine the laws governing various business organizations and relationships, including sole proprietorships, agencies, partnerships, corporations; assess the responsibilities of businesses toward their consumers; evaluate the requirements, rights, and obligations that contracts create; recognize the impacts of bankruptcy laws upon creditors and debtors; evaluate the consequences of willful and negligent acts; and identify methods for functioning successfully in corporate and business transactions. This course will not satisfy requirements toward majors in the School of Liberal Arts or the A.B. Freeman School of Business (Previously numbered as BSBL 3400)