 | | Course ID: | LEGL 2700. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business | Course
Description: | The legal and regulatory environment of business, emphasizing why legal duties are placed on the business community and how managers should appropriately respond to them. Covers legal institutions, constitutional law, common law, and public law. | | Athena Title: | Legal Regulatory Environ Bus | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LEGL 2700E, LEGL 2800H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 2700E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business | Course
Description: | The legal and regulatory environment of business, emphasizing
why legal duties are placed on the business community and how
managers should appropriately respond to them. Covers legal
institutions, constitutional law, common law, and public law. | | Athena Title: | LEGAL & REG ENV BUS | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LEGL 2700 or LEGL 2800H | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 2800H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business (Honors) | Course
Description: | The legal and regulatory environment of business, emphasizing why legal duties are placed on the business community and how managers should appropriately respond to them. Covers legal institutions, constitutional law, common law, and public law. | | Athena Title: | Legal Regulatory Environ Bus H | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LEGL 2700, LEGL 2700E | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 4200. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Law and the Entertainment Industry | Course
Description: | A comprehensive study of the legal issues confronting the
entertainment industry. Segments of the industry that will be
covered include music, motion pictures, television, and
sports. Particular emphasis will be placed on intellectual
property and contract/licensing issues, while also covering
agency, antitrust, labor and employment, and tort law. | | Athena Title: | Law and Entertainment Industry | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 or LEGL 2700E or LEGL 2800H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 4300E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Law of Business Organizations | Course
Description: | A managerial, entrepreneurial focus on the law applicable to
forming partnerships, corporations, and other business
entities, raising capital and structuring relationships with
agents, employees, partners, officers, and directors. | | Athena Title: | Law of Business Organizations | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LEGL 4300, LEGL 6300 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 or LEGL 2700E or LEGL 2800H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 4300/6300. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Law of Business Organizations | Course
Description: | A managerial, entrepreneurial focus on the law applicable to forming partnerships, corporations and other business entities, raising capital and structuring relationships with agents, employees, partners, officers, and directors. | | Athena Title: | Law of Business Organizations | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LEGL 4300E | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 or LEGL 2700E or LEGL 2800H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 4400/6400. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Business Law | Course
Description: | Debtor-creditor relations, commercial paper, contracts, securities, agency, partnership, joint ventures, corporations, professional and legal responsibility, sales, secured transactions, bankruptcy. | | Athena Title: | Business Law | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 or LEGL 2700E or LEGL 2800H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 4400E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Business Law | Course
Description: | Debtor-creditor relations, commercial paper, contracts,
securities, agency, partnership, joint ventures, corporations,
professional and legal responsibility, sales, secured
transactions, bankruptcy. | | Athena Title: | Business Law | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LEGL 4400 or LEGL 6400 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 or LEGL 2700E or LEGL 2800H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 4500/6500. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Employment Law | Course
Description: | Laws prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, gender (including sexual harassment), religion, national origin, age, and disability, with an emphasis on avoiding unnecessary liability. | | Athena Title: | EMPLOYMENT LAW | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 4600/6600. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems | Course
Description: | Styles of negotiation as a tool used to resolve and reduce conflicts and disputes. Also studied are ADR systems, such as arbitration and mediation. | | Athena Title: | NEGOTIATION & ADRS | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 4900/6900. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | International Legal Transactions for Business | Course
Description: | Study of laws, agreements, and institutions that affect
international business transactions with particular emphasis on
legal risk in global transactions, including sales contracts,
major trade agreements, regulation of imports and exports,
anti-trust law, intellectual property rights, labor and
employment law, environmental law, as well as cultural,
political, and ethical problems related to international legal
transactions. | | Athena Title: | Intl Legal Transact for Busi | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 or LEGL 2700E or LEGL 2800H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 5000. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Special Topics in Legal Studies | Course
Description: | Group study of selected topics from the field of legal studies,
such as more advanced study of areas of law relevant to
business and current legal issues affecting business. | | Athena Title: | Special Topics Legal Studies | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 or LEGL 2700E or LEGL 2800H | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL(REAL) 5200. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Real Estate Law | Course
Description: | How law impacts real estate, its ownership, conveyance, and development. Real property ownership interests, restrictions on such interest, methods of transferring such interest, private and public land-use controls, and legal transactions involving real estate, such as gifts, sales, and leases. | | Athena Title: | Real Estate Law | | Prerequisite: | REAL 4000 or REAL 4000H or REAL 4000E | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 5900. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 3 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Research in Legal Studies | Course
Description: | A research-intensive course requiring an original and
independent research paper/project on a legal studies related
topic under the supervision of a faculty member. | | Athena Title: | Research in Legal Studies | | Nontraditional Format: | Directed research and study done independently of a regularly
scheduled class. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | | Pre or Corequisite: | LEGL 2700 or LEGL 2700E or LEGL 2800H or BUSN 4000 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 5990. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Directed Study | Course
Description: | Individual advanced study, reading, or projects under the
direction of a faculty project director. | | Athena Title: | Directed Study | | Nontraditional Format: | Directed study. | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 or LEGL 2700E or LEGL 2800H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 7010. 1.5-3 hours. | | Course Title: | Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business | Course
Description: | The interrelationship of business and the ordering of society through law. Emphasizes why legal duties come to be placed on business and how managers appropriately respond to these duties. | | Athena Title: | LEGAL & REG ENV BUS | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LEGL 8000 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 7050. 1.5-3 hours. | | Course Title: | Negotiation | Course
Description: | Concepts and tools of integrative, interest-based negotiation. | | Athena Title: | NEGOTIATION | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LEGL 8050 | | Nontraditional Format: | Some sections of this class will be taught in a non-traditional, i.e., part distance delivery, format. Where taught in distance delivery for three credit hours, at least one credit hour of lecture, generally on campus, will be included. The remaining hours for this non-traditional format will consist of one or more of on-site lectures, distance lectures, virtual office hours, and other distance exercises and discussions. | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 7200. 1.5-3 hours. | | Course Title: | Negotiation and Conflict Resolution | Course
Description: | Complex negotiation simulations and interest-based conflict management systems, with emphasis on methods of recognizing and resolving underlying conflicts and resulting disputes. | | Athena Title: | NEG & CONFL RES | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LEGL 8200 | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 7050 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 7990. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Directed Study in Legal Studies | Course
Description: | Directed study in legal studies topics for MBA students, giving
particular attention to specialized problems in an area related
to a student's academic interests. | | Athena Title: | DIR STUDY IN LEGL | | Nontraditional Format: | Directed study. | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 8990. 1-15 hours. Repeatable for maximum 15 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Directed Study in Legal Studies | Course
Description: | Research in Legal Studies. | | Athena Title: | DIRECTED STUDY | | Nontraditional Format: | Course involves independent work outside the traditional classroom format. | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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