 | | 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. | | Oasis Title: | LEGAL & REG ENV BUS | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LEGL 2800H | | Nontraditional Format: | This course is also offered through University System of Georgia
Independent Study (USGIS). | 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. | | Oasis Title: | LEGAL & REG ENV BUS | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LEGL 2700 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 4100H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Current Issues in Legal Studies (Honors) | Course
Description: | Legal issues of current importance to business managers designed to develop critical legal thinking skills. | | Oasis Title: | LS CURRENT ISSUES | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 and 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. | | Oasis Title: | ENT LAW | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 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. | | Oasis Title: | BUS ORGANIZATIONS | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 | 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. | | Oasis Title: | BUSINESS LAW | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 | 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. | | Oasis 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. | | Oasis 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. | | Oasis Title: | INTL LEGAL TRANS | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 | 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. | | Oasis Title: | SPCL TOPICS LEGL | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 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. | | Oasis Title: | REAL ESTATE LAW | | Prerequisite: | REAL 4000 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered 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. | | Oasis Title: | DIRECTED STUDY | | Nontraditional Format: | Directed study. | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 2700 | 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. | | Oasis 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. | | Oasis 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. | | Oasis 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 7400. 1.5 hours. | | Course Title: | International Legal Transactions for Business | Course
Description: | Laws, agreements, and institutions that affect international business transactions with particular emphasis on licensing, exporting, contract formation, dispute resolution, intellectual property rights, and cultural, political, and ethical problems. | | Oasis Title: | INTL LEGAL TRANS | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in LEGL 8400 | | Nontraditional Format: | Course meets on half-semester. | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 7010 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 8100. 1.5 hours. | | Course Title: | Law for Managers | Course
Description: | Antitrust, employment discrimination, products liability, environmental laws, securities fraud, and other current legal issues facing business managers. | | Oasis Title: | LAW FOR MANAGERS | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 7010 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LEGL 8300. 1.5 hours. | | Course Title: | Legal Aspects of Financial Institutions | Course
Description: | Legal issues facing regulated financial institutions, such as banks and credit unions. | | Oasis Title: | LEGAL ASPECT FIN IN | | Prerequisite: | LEGL 7010 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered 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. | | Oasis 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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