MBA524 - Business Law and Ethics

This course examines the legal and ethical environment of business with particular attention to principles of law relating to business operations. The course emphasizes how organizational leaders identify, address, minimize, and prevent legal and ethical issues in areas of law important to business including: constitutional law; properly law, with a focus on intellectual property; contract law, including UCC Article 2, Statute of Frauds remedies, and e-commerce; tort law, including intentional, negligence, strict, and product liability; criminal law, including cybercrime, white-collar crime, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; regulatory law; agency and employment law; international law; forms of business organization; bankruptcy law; and litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Finally, students will be expected to apply critical thinking and legal reasoning to consider both the legal and ethical impacts of decision-making and business practice.
Credits: 3
Course Learning Outcomes

Evaluate the relationships among law, business, and ethics by developing an awareness of legal and ethical principles involved in economic relationships and business transactions. [PLO5, 6, and 7]
Analyze the free enterprise system and debate the propositions that law is an expression of the public will, and that private property and free enterprise under the rule of law is a public good. [PLO6]
Develop skills and habits of analytical thinking and logical reasoning as a technique for decision-making, as evidenced in methodological argumentation, when examining real world scenarios. [PLO5, 6, and 7]
Formulate and present an argument for and against a variety of legal propositions based on readings, research, logic, and analysis of multiple factors such as statutory and case law, economics, and technological innovations. [PLO6 and 7]
Construct and organize multiple viewpoints with respect to business ethics and social responsibility as applied within a variety of organizational circumstances. [PLO2 and 7]
Evaluate the interconnections of the law and ethics as applied to other business disciplines, and to enrich and make more meaningful all areas of business study. [PLO5 and 7]