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Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business Syllabus Elizabeth J. Mustard |
| Purpose |
| The legal and regulatory environment of business, emphasizing why legal duties are placed on the business community and how managers should appropriately respond to them. This course covers legal institutions, tort, contracts, property, criminal and other legal matters relating to the business community. |
| Web Site |
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You are responsible for checking the class web site regularly. All announcements, assignements
and changes will be posted there. If you have administrative questions,
please check the web site first. Your second source of information on administrative
matters is classmates. For administrative questions, you should contact me only after you have pursued
these first two options. Website http://www.terry.uga.edu/~mustard/courses/l2700/ |
| Required Reading |
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The textbook is The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business (14th)
(Reed, Shedd, Morehead, Pagnattaro). This text is required.
Cases and readings from various sources are or will be linked directly on the outline of notes and can be found on a Cases and Readings link on the website. A tables page is also linked on the website. |
| Examinations and Grading |
| The course
grade will be based on two midterms (30% each towards average grade)
and a comprehensive final (40% towards average grade). All exams will be CLOSED BOOK, no aides or helps are permitted. All exams will be based on both the class notes and required reading. There will be NO make-up midterm exams. If you do not take a midterm, the weight of that midterm will be applied to your final exam. Your decision must be made before the midterm begins. You cannot take the midterm or part of the midterm and later choose to drop it. This policy obviously allows students to skip all the midterms, and place 100% of their course grade on the final. Research shows that students who pursue this strategy do poorly. Failure to take the final exam at the scheduled time will result in a grade of zero. Therefore, if you know that you will not be able to take the final at the assigned time, you should not take this course. Two exceptions to this rule are:
www.curriculumsystems.uga.edu In this case, please let me know one week prior to the last day of classes. (2) Family emergency or personal illness. The Office of the Vice-President for Student Affairs (110 Old College) must verify that you have a family emergency or personal illness. If this occurs please let me know before the exam or as soon as possible after the exam.
[TBD]
11:00 am class: Tues. May 5, 2009 12 noon - 3pm The first day of classes is Thurs. January 8, 2009. No extra credit will be given for the course. Academic
Honesty: UGA's Academic
Honesty Policy known as "A Culture of Honesty" will be strictly enforced in this course. I strongly
urge you to become particularly familiar with pages 6 through 8 which discusses required and prohibited conduct. |
| Course Outline |
| A general outline is presented
here. A more
detailed outline is posted in the class notes.
1. Law and Property as the Foundation for Business |