Business Law I
This course is an introduction to the legal setting in which businesses operate. Coverage includes introduction to the law and the legal system, constitutional law, administrative law, torts, criminal law, contracts, ethics and the effect of government regulation on businesses.
How this course works
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- 1Activity 1
Legal Mind
A vague opinion collapses the moment someone pushes on it; a legal argument is built to take the push. Legal reasoning is the discipline behind that difference: spot the…
- 2Activity 2
U.S. Constitution
A complaint about a county zoning rule goes nowhere in a U.S. senator's inbox. The Constitution divides power between the national government and the states, so a…
- 3Activity 3
Administrative Law
The Occupational Safety and Health Act never says how high a guardrail must be. OSHA, the Labor Department agency that sets workplace safety standards, wrote the number…
- 4Activity 4
Caselaw
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars an employer from firing a worker "because of" sex. The federal appeals court over Florida read those words not to protect…
- 5Activity 5
Court System
Florida's county courts hear money disputes up to $50,000, and a claim for one dollar more has to start in circuit court. Lines like that run through the whole American…
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Civil Litigation
Most lawsuits never reach a jury. They end on a motion or in a settlement, and the stage where a case ends decides what it costs and who controls the result. A business…
- 7Activity 7
Alternative Dispute Resolution
A business can decide where its future disputes will be heard, and by whom, on the day it signs a contract. An arbitration clause sends them to a private judge whose…
- 8Activity 8
Contract Law - Part 1: Formation and Performance
A contract is a promise a court will enforce, and plenty of business disputes turn on whether a promise ever became one. The answer depends on three questions: which…
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Contract Law - Part 2: Remedies
Contract law does not punish a broken promise. A court asks what would make the injured party whole, and the answer is usually a number. Most damages fights are…
- 10Activity 10
Contract Law - Part 3: Draft a Contract
Whoever writes the contract decides what the deal says, and a court will hold both sides to those words long after the handshake is forgotten. Drafting is the skill of…
- 11Activity 11
Tort Law
Tort law sets the terms on which one party pays for harm it causes another, whether or not anyone broke a contract or committed a crime. For a business, it shapes how…
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Intellectual Property
A company's most valuable assets are often ones no one can touch: its brand, its designs, its software, its formulas. Four main bodies of law protect them, and each sets…
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Business Law Story
Put a customer's slip-and-fall into a novel, and a reader who knows tort law can tell within a page whether the writer does. Fiction is unforgiving that way: a courtroom…