Business Administration: Business Law II

Concepts of law as related to business, including law of contracts, sales, bailment, and negotiable instruments, business and law agency, partnerships, and corporations. BUS 2370 is not a prerequisite for BUS 2380. Prerequisites: BUS 1110, BUS 1101, ECON 1400, or ECON 1450 with a minimum grade of C-; Business major or minor; Law & Society minors by permission; minimum Sophomore standing.

BSAD major and minor, 2BUS Co-Major, and PACE students; L&S minors by instructor permission, email gsbcss@uvm.edu. Minimum Sophomore standing Prereqs enforced by the system: BUS 1101, 1110, ECON 1400, or ECON 1450 with a minimum grade of C-. BUS 2370 is not a prerequisite for BUS 2380

BUS 2380 is intended to provide students with a broad overview of several areas of U.S. law that commonly affect businesses. (BUS 2370, a Fall Semester course, is NOT a prerequisite for BUS 2380). The course is not designed to turn students into lawyers. Rather, the goal is to familiarize students with general outlines of business law, enough to avoid obvious problems once they begin their careers and enough to know when to call their lawyers. Specific topics include agency, employment law, partnerships and corporations, financing, property, security interests, insurance and consumer protection.

While the format is predominantly lecture-based, this course works best when students are engaged, ask questions, and come prepared to class by doing the assigned reading.

Grades are based upon three (3) exams (inclusive of the final), and class participation.