Business Law 636

Administrative Materials

• Textbook
• Syllabus
• Grading Rubrics
  • Grading Rubric for Papers
  • Ethics Grading Rubric
  • End-of-Chapter Questions Grading Rubric
  • Current Events Grading Rubric (for groups only - individual reports get participation credit)
  • Peer Review Grading Template
• Food List (when you agreed to bring food - in case you forget)
• Seating Chart - Group Assignments
• Student Information Collection Form

Slides for Class

• Chapter 1 & 2 - Ethics
• Chapter 3 Courts, Sources of Law and Dispute Resolution
• Chapter 6 Administration Law
• Chapter 7 Contracts - first half of slides
• Chapter 7 Contracts - second half of slides - remedies
• Chapter 8 Sales
• Chapter 9 Torts
• Chapter 10 Product Liability (reading not assigned - but I will lecture on parts of it)
• Chapter 11 Intellectual Property
• Chapter 5 Agency
• Chapter 12 Employment Law
• Chapter 13 Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination
• Chapter 20 Business Organization Entity Type

TEXTBOOK AND OTHER MATERIAL

Selected chapters from:  Managers and the Legal Environment: Strategies for the 21^st Century, Sixth Edition, Constance E. Bagley and Diane W. Savage, South-Western Cengage Learning (© 2010 • ISBN-10: 0324582048 • ISBN-13: 9780324582048).  Consider buying at http://www.ichapters.com/market/index.html search for Bagley and Savage or use the ISBN 9780324582048 and then click on the button for view “eChapters: $6.99 (EA)”  The first chapter is free online.  Buying online allows you to print and save the chapters on your computer; however, the software is difficult to work with and includes a lot of security to prevent copyright infringement. Expect some hassles with an online purchase.

Chapter 1 – Law, Value Creation, and Risk Management

Chapter 2 – Ethics and the Law 

Chapter 3 – Courts, Sources of Law and Dispute Resolution

Chapter 6 – Administrative Law  

Chapter 7 – Contracts  

Chapter 8 – Sales  

Chapter 9 – Torts 

Chapter 11 – Intellectual Property  

Chapter 5 – Agency  

Chapter 13 – Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination

Chapter 20 – Business Entity Structure (limited coverage)  

Additional reading assignments will be made throughout the semester from materials outside the text book some of that is included with this syllabus:  web site material, current articles, current legal cases, as well as material published by government regulators and others with the purpose of educating on marketing law.  

University Computers with Software.   You can use the computers in rooms 415 and 491 in Centennial Hall but only the ones along the hallway wall.  You must use the same one each time and you can only install the program on two computers.