Legal Studies

Examines the legal environment of today's businesses, the sources of American law, and ethics and corporate social responsibility. Provides an overview of constitutional, statutory, administrative and common law, tort law, agency, contracts, cyber law and privacy, LLCs, corporations, and bankruptcy, intellectual property, securities, consumer protection and environmental law, intellectual property, real property, international law and the federal and state courts.

This course expands the student’s knowledge on business law topics, including agency, contract-law, creditor-debtor interactions, governmental regulations of financial transaction and the uniform commercial code.

This course familiarizes students with the origins of criminal law and explores its historical development into modern American crimes codes. Each lesson introduces students to substantive criminal law and associated legal principles and terminology. This course contrasts elements of crimes against persons, crimes against property, cybercrime, white collar crime and other types of crime. Early and modern approaches to identifying, deterring, preventing, detecting, prosecuting and punishing criminal behavior are also examined.

This course examines the American judicial system to include federal, state and local courts. The professional courtroom work group, nonprofessional courtroom participants, the trial process and challenges to the trial process are described. The activities of lawyers, judges and related occupations and professions are reviewed. An overview of the juvenile court system is included.

Examines legal and regulatory aspects associated with federal acquisition and administration of contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Topics include contract formation and award protests, standards of conduct, governmental liability, the dispute process and administrative and judicial methods of resolution of procurement and contract disputes.

Examines and evaluates the legal environment and ethical challenges of management and organizations. Reviews approaches to enhance corporate accountability, foster an ethical work environment, ensure legal compliance and provide effective leadership in an organization. Analyzes the impact of management decisions, corporate governance and the leader's individual conduct on a firm's ability to meet its obligations to stakeholders. Evaluates alternative courses of action from an economic, legal and ethical perspective to ensure management meets corporate responsibilities to create wealth, obey the law and observe society's ethical standards. Examines the key elements of effective corporate governance, the predominate schools of ethical thought in relation to strategic management and the ethical consideration for global operations.

Presents the management considerations (government and contractor) and processes for addressing legal issues associated with federal acquisition and administration of contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Topics include contract formation and award protests, standards of conduct, governmental liability, the dispute process and administrative and judicial methods of resolution of procurement and contract disputes.

Analyzes the legal environment in which business must operate. Examines key provisions of the major federal laws related to labor, consumer protection, property rights, securities, bankruptcy and environmental protection. Reviews the various forms of business and the topic of corporate governance. Examines contracts and the UCC, product liabilities, torts and issues associated with intellectual property. Discusses legal issues associated with international business.