This course covers basic principles of law and their application to business problems. Topics include a discussion of legal rights and social forces; the legal relationships of government, business and society; law of contracts; personal property, bailments, sales of goods, torts and business crimes.

This course provides a study of the legal principles covering negotiable instruments, debtor-creditor law, including bankruptcy; agency, employer-employee relations; insurance; business organizations; and real property, including property ownership and landlord-tenant relations.

This course explores the nature of legal, ethical and societal environments of business. Emphasis is placed on business's social, legal, political and ethical responsibilities to both external and internal groups for business. Topics include corporate social responsibility, legal, political, and ethical aspects of business, state and federal laws, contracts, intellectual property, employment law, product liability, safety issues and environmental regulation.

Students will apply legal concepts of transacting business across national borders. The focus will be on transactional international business law including, the legal and ethical environment of international business, international contracting, importing-exporting, trade finance, and international intellectual property law, trade agreements and licensing. The student will gain an appreciation of the special risks of conducting business internationally and the legal pitfalls associated with those risks.