Please note that this course is not currently being offered. The course follows a detailed case study that follows the life cycle of a medium-sized enterprise. The case study is designed to be realistic as well as rich in legal issues of relevance to all varieties of enterprise. The initial focus of the course will be to get students to consider the variety of relationships created by commercial activity and understand the way in which legal principles apply to these relationships. Thus the course will involve relationships among and between: Co-venturer Managers vis a vis shareholders, stakeholders, employees, consumers and regulators/government, ordinary commercial parties dealing at arm's length, citizens (including corporate citizens) and the State. The course will, aside from teaching students the essential principles of law in key areas (as derived from statutes and case law), teach students how to work with legal principles in a practical manner. We will therefore focus on the process of bargaining "within the shadow of the law", mediation and negotiation and use of extra-legal and self-help remedies as means of managing legal and business risks. The course will also require students to consider the way in which the law interacts with ethical and sound managerial practice. You will be exposed to legal issues as they emerge in the real world and learn how to be a more informed and efficient user of the services of legal professionals to manage those issues.
