BUS 5313 - Legal Environment of Business

3 Credit Hours

Introduction to the Anglo-American legal system beginning with the historical and continuing to present-day basis of the common law and its influence on our modern statutory law. Emphasis on how to foresee and avoid legal entanglements before becoming involved in litigation. Contracts and sales and torts; the legal nature of the corporation; business organizations and agency law. Practice in the art of careful listening, analysis, logic and expression of issues both verbally and in writing. Combines case and problem analysis, lecture, class discussion, group projects and individual and group presentations.

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