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.

Explores the intersections of law and business at a broad level with the aim of building a general understanding of how legal systems and contemporary legal issues affect businesses. Students will develop their abilities to (a) identify and understand legal issues in a dynamic business environment and (b) communicate more effectively with legal counsel.