BLAW 320 Legal Environment of Organizations

General

• To explain the ways in which the U.S. legal system is organized and operates, including alternative dispute resolution, ethics, and business decision making.
• To understand the concepts, principles, rules of law, and ethical considerations pertaining to the legal environment in which businesses function.
• To differentiate the sources of law, including constitutional law, common law, statutory law, and administrative law.
• To identify the elements required to form an enforceable contract, including when a contract must be in writing, the consequences of breaching a contract, and the effect of the Uniform Commercial Code on contracts.
• To analyze legal issues concerning contract law, tort law, employment law, consumer law, environmental law and other laws that commonly confront businesses.
• To brief a case.