Business Law II
This course is a continuation of Business Law I (BUL2241) with a focus on the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) as it applies to sale of goods, negotiable instruments, and secured transactions. The course also covers the law of business organizations and related topics.
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Agency Law
Every business larger than one person acts through agents. Employees sign leases, sales representatives quote prices, and delivery drivers put the company's name on the…
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Partnerships
A partnership is the only business form you can create by accident. Two people who run a business together and share its profits are partners under state law whether or…
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Limited Liability Company
The limited liability company is the form most new Florida businesses choose, and for good reason: it shields the owners' personal assets like a corporation while…
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Corporations (Part 1)
A corporation is a legal person of its own. It can own property, enter contracts, borrow money, and be sued in its own name, separate from the people who own it or run…
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Corporations (Part 2)
Forming a corporation is only the beginning. Once people are running it, a different set of questions takes over: who is in control, what they owe the corporation and…
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Secured Transactions
Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code governs loans secured by personal property: inventory, equipment, vehicles, accounts receivable, and nearly anything else a…
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Bankruptcy
When a person or a business cannot pay its debts, the law does not leave creditors to fight over whatever remains. Federal bankruptcy law provides one uniform system…
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Employment Law
Employment law governs the relationship between employers and the people who work for them: hiring, pay and hours, workplace safety, discrimination, union activity, and…
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Consumer Protection
Every business that sells something makes claims about quality, ingredients, performance, price, and value, and consumer protection law exists to keep those claims…
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Securities
Securities law governs how businesses raise money by selling ownership and debt interests to the public. Its founding idea is disclosure: a company that wants public…
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Antitrust Law
Markets work when businesses compete, because competition is what pushes prices down and quality and innovation up. Antitrust law protects the competitive process itself…
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Environmental Law
Environmental law is the body of statutes and regulations that governs a business's effect on air, water, and land. Four federal statutes do most of the work, the…
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Business Law Story
This project brings the course together by asking you to apply the doctrines you have learned to one cohesive story. Knowing the rules of agency, corporate governance,…