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.

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.

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.

A comprehensive study of intellectual property law. Primary topics that will be covered include patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. Emphasis will be placed on creation, ownership, transfer, and use of intellectual property rights.

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.

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.

Debtor-creditor relations, commercial paper, contracts, securities, agency, partnership, joint ventures, corporations, professional and legal responsibility, sales, secured transactions, bankruptcy.

Debtor-creditor relations, commercial paper, contracts, securities, agency, partnership, joint ventures, corporations, professional and legal responsibility, sales, secured transactions, bankruptcy.

Study of domestic laws, regulations, and policies affecting the employment relationship, with particular emphasis on legal risk for employers, including wage and hour issues, hiring and promotion decisions, use of background checks and references, issues of worker privacy, and employment discrimination.

Styles of negotiation as a tool used to resolve and reduce conflicts and disputes. Also studied are ADR systems, such as arbitration and mediation.

Students will survey banking and securities law, look at how FinTech companies are disrupting old financial services models, and examine how these new technologies can serve communities that have been traditionally excluded from the financial services sector.

The current and potential roles of corporations in society as framed by legal rules. The curriculum delves into the duties of officers, directors, and shareholders through the basics of agency, and then explores how corporations relate to the rest of society.