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Business
Law
Know your legal ground in the business world. Contracts, liability, employment, and compliance made clear and practical for non-lawyers.
What You'll Learn
A full semester of business law — completed at your own pace, with no deadlines or fixed class times.
What You'll Be Able to Do
- Apply fundamental legal principles — including contracts, torts, and regulatory frameworks — to analyze and resolve real-world business problems
- Interpret legal documents such as contracts and statutes, and understand the relationships between various laws and business practices
- Master advanced legal techniques including statutory interpretation, case law analysis, and legal writing to navigate complex business operations
- Evaluate legal and ethical considerations in employment law, anti-discrimination statutes, and workplace rights
- Analyze corporate governance, business organization structures, and the legal duties of agents, partners, and directors
- Identify protections in intellectual property, consumer law, antitrust regulation, and emerging internet law
Major Course Topics
Course chapters and lessons
Business Law has 18 chapters across 80 instructional hours, as listed in the course syllabus. Expand any chapter to see the lessons inside it.
- Chapters
- 18
- Lessons
- 143
- Instructional hours
- 80 hrs
- Semester hours
- 3
Chapter 1
Introduction to Law and Legal Systems
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 What Is Law and What Functions Does It Serve?
- 1.3 Modern Legal Systems of the World
- 1.4 Sources of Law
- 1.5 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 2
The United States Court System
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Separation of Powers
- 2.3 Federalism
- 2.4 Trial and Appellate Courts
- 2.5 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 3
Litigation
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The Parties, Attorneys, and Jury
- 3.3 Standing
- 3.4 Subject Matter and Personal Jurisdiction
- 3.5 Venue
- 3.6 Pretrial Procedures
- 3.7 The Trial and Appeal
- 3.8 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 4
Alternative Dispute Resolution
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Negotiation
- 4.3 Mediation
- 4.4 Arbitration
- 4.5 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 5
The Constitution
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Federalism and Preemption
- 5.3 The Commerce Clause
- 5.4 Business and the Bill of Rights
- 5.5 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 6
International Law
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 The Nature of International Law
- 6.3 Sources of International Law
- 6.4 US Laws that Apply to US Nationals Abroad
- 6.5 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 7
Administrative Law
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Creation of Administrative Agencies
- 7.3 Agency Functions
- 7.4 Judicial Review of Agency Actions
- 7.5 Public Access to Agency Information
- 7.6 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 8
Criminal Law
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The Nature of Criminal Law
- 8.3 Constitutional Rights and Defenses
- 8.4 Common Business Crimes
- 8.5 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 9
Torts
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Intentional Torts
- 9.3 Negligence
- 9.4 Strict Liability
- 9.5 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 10
Contracts
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Contract Elements
- 10.3 Types of Contracts
- 10.4 Performance and Breach of Contract
- 10.5 Defenses to Contracts
- 10.6 Assignment, Delegation, and Third Party Beneficiaries
- 10.7 Parol Evidence Rule
- 10.8 Remedies
- 10.9 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 11
Employment Law and Anti-Discrimination Laws
- 11.1 Introduction to Employment Law
- 11.2 Employment At Will
- 11.3 Common Employment Law Torts
- 11.4 Wage and Hour Laws
- 11.5 Family Medical Leave Act
- 11.6 Occupational Safety and Health Act
- 11.7 Employee Retirement Income Security Act
- 11.8 Workers’ Compensation Laws
- 11.9 Unemployment Compensation
- 11.10 Labor Relations
Chapter 12
Anti-Discrimination Laws
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 The Equal Pay Act of 1963
- 12.3 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- 12.4 Enforcement of Title VII
- 12.5 The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
- 12.6 The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
- 12.7 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008
- 12.8 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 13
Agency and Business Organizations
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 The Agency Relationship
- 13.3 Duties of Agents and Principals
- 13.4 Liability to Third Parties
- 13.5 Termination of Agency Relationship
- 13.6 Concluding Thoughts
- 13.7 Sole Proprietorship
- 13.8 Partnerships
- 13.9 Franchises
- 13.10 Joint Venture
- 13.11 Corporations
- 13.12 Limited Liability Entities
- 13.13 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 14
Partnerships and Corporations
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Types of Partnerships
- 14.3 Partnership Agreements
- 14.4 Rights and Duties of Partners
- 14.5 Termination of a Partnership
- 14.6 Concluding Thoughts
- 14.7 Corporate Structure
- 14.8 Shareholder Rights
- 14.9 Corporate Officers and Directors
- 14.10 Legal Theories
- 14.11 Mergers, Consolidations, and Dissolutions
- 14.12 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 15
Antitrust Law and Consumer Law
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Historical Development
- 15.3 Monopoly
- 15.4 Unreasonable Restraints on Trade
- 15.5 Price Discrimination
- 15.6 Enforcement
- 15.7 Concluding Thoughts
- 15.8 Protecting the Purchaser
- 15.9 Protecting the Debtor
- 15.10 Enforcement
- 15.11 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 16
Workplace Privacy and Property
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Right to Privacy
- 16.3 Workplace Privacy
- 16.4 Information Security Issues
- 16.5 Concluding Thoughts
- 16.6 Personal Property
- 16.7 Real Property
- 16.8 Wills and Trusts
- 16.9 Land Use Regulation
- 16.10 Environmental Law
- 16.11 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 17
Intellectual Property and Bankruptcy
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Intellectual Property
- 17.3 Constitutional Roots
- 17.4 Patents
- 17.5 Trade Secrets
- 17.6 Trademarks
- 17.7 Copyright
- 17.8 Concluding Thoughts
- 17.9 Types of Bankruptcy
- 17.10 Bankruptcy Proceedings
- 17.11 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 18
Internet Law and Social Media
- 18.1 Understanding Internet Law: Spam, CAN-SPAM Act, and the U.S. Safe Web Act
- 18.2 Domain Names and Their Role in E-Commerce
- 18.3 Understanding Cybersquatting and Legal Protections
- 18.4 Trademark Issues in the Online World
- 18.5 Copyrights in Digital Information
- 18.6 Copyright Infringement and File Sharing: Key Issues in the Digital Age
- 18.7 Social Media and Its Legal Implications
- 18.8 Protection of Social Media Passwords
- 18.9 Understanding Online Defamation and Internet Service Provider (ISP) Liability
These chapters come straight from the official course syllabus, which also sets out the graded assignment and the proctored final exam.
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