Introduction to Law and Business

2 credits · Owen Graduate School of Management

This course is designed to introduce business people to aspects of the American legal system that they will likely confront in their professional lives. The goal is not to train students to deal with specific legal issues on their own - a law student would spend at least an entire semester on any one of the many topics we will touch on in this course - but rather to equip students to be more sophisticated consumers of legal services. Students will be exposed to several substantive areas of law that affect businesses, including contract law and the Uniform Commercial Code, tort law, corporate law, securities regulation, antitrust law, and intellectual property law. The course will also expose students to important structural features of the American legal system. [2]