Course Title: Legal Environment in Business
Campus Course Code: BLAW 6301
UTTC Course Code: MBAO 6333
Campus: UT Brownsville
Program: MBAO
Course Description
This course examines real-world cases and statutes and discusses problems that confront managers in today's increasingly complex legal environment.
Businesses are in a paradigm shift from the industrial age to the information age--from bricks to clicks, from concrete to cyberspace and this has affected the nature of both commercial transactions and the law applicable to those transactions. The course will include a cyberlaw perspective on traditional topics.
Course topics include: a survey of American constitution, court systems, torts, contracts, e-commerce, corporations and limited liability companies, and business crimes. We will look at hypothetical and real cases and risk management (how the legal damage was--or might have been--minimized). We will discuss the ethical imperatives imposed on businesspersons by law and see how unethical behavior can be minimized by enforcing legal strictures.
Objectives
The course has general objectives and specific objectives. Specific objectives for each unit of the course are listed at the beginning of each lesson. The general objectives are presented below. The student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- apply legal theory to problems confronting managers in today's contemporary legal environment;
- spot legal issues;
- search legal databases for laws, cases and articles that may apply to a legal problem;
- draft a legal analysis based on the Issue-Rule-Analysis-Conclusion format;
- assist corporate counsel with legal risk management.
Materials
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Credits:3
Level:Graduate
Faculty
Mark Blakemore
mark.blakemore@utb.edu
956-882-7884