| source City University of New York (X) |
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department Law (X) |
This course is an in-depth examination of landmark cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that interpret amendments to the Constitution. Issues to be explored include freedom of speech and religion, the right to counsel, the permissible limits of search and seizure, double jeopardy, protection against self-incrimination, guarantees of a fair trial, and due process and equal protection of the law. The legal and ethical ramifications of the decisions and their impact on American home life and the workplace will be discussed.
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This topic is examined from the formation of the family, beginning with the contract to marry, to the marriage contract, through the dissolution of the family by judicial separation, annulment, and/or divorce. Expanded and emerging new definitions of family are explored in terms of their socio-legal-economic implications. The legal incidents of husband-wife and parent-child relationships are also analyzed, together with the related family law subjects of adoption, property rights, and inheritance rights of family members. Proceedings in family court are examined with special emphasis on jurisdiction and organization and the implications of uniform laws; specific proceedings, including child protective proceedings, permanent termination of parental rights, adoption, guardianship, and custody; and support proceedings and enforcement, paternity, and family offenses.
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This course provides an understanding of the nature of law and its role in business. The law of business contracts will be examined in depth. Other topics include tort liability, employment law, and bankruptcy. The course requires case analysis, problem solving, development of critical thinking skills, and oral and written communication.
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Following a review of the doctrines governing principal and agent, the course examines the law governing partnerships and corporations in their formation, operation, internal relationships, and dissolution, with particular reference to the law of New York.
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The legal aspects of the various and varied negotiable instruments in current use, involved in the transfer of monies and property in business and banking transactions. The course is organized around checks, notes, drafts, and acceptances, as well as involving instruments and documents, such as certificates of deposit and hybrid letters of credit, and their impact on current and future business and banking transactions. The rights and liabilities of accommodation parties, sureties, guarantors, and rights of subrogation relating to these various instruments are covered. The legal rights, obligations, and liabilities of banks, bank depositors and customers, and third parties are also explored and studied.
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The legal problems arising out of the sale of merchandise by manufacturers, distributors, and dealers (including consignments and licensing agreements) and out of the financing, processing, shipment, and warehousing of merchandise. The course also deals with bailments (ordinary and extraordinary) and the rights and duties of parties thereto.
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This course will examine the major legal issues faced by entrepreneurs and start-up businesses. The course covers issues such as the entrepreneur's choice of business form, and the legal regulation of capital formation, venture capital financing and initial public offerings. In addition, students will become familiar with a wide range of legal issues connected to the day-to-day operation of an enterpreneurial venture including: labor and employment law issues; intellectual property challenges; insurance matters; legal limits on marketing and competition; global trade issues and the regulation of e-commerce. Finally, we will address fundamental changes to the business, including mergers, acquisitions and the sale of the business.
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The legal aspects of regulating the American enterprise system are studied. Problems arising from monopolistic practices, contracts in restraint of trade, mergers, and intracorporate conspiracy are analyzed. The function of the courts, government, and private parties are considered, together with the civil and criminal liability of the enterprise and its management. Topics to be included are antitrust economics, the role of the Federal Trade Commission, antitrust exemptions, and deregulation.
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The course addresses the legal issues created bya the internet revolution, with an emphasis on law and e-business. Copyright and music/video piracy are studied, as is protection of databases and other internet content. Trademark law and internet domain name controversies (domestic and international) are addressed. Regulability, jurisdiction, and liabilities arising from internet activities are analyzed. Relationships with employees, vendors and customers are examined, and internet privacy and ethics are covered.
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The essential principles of the liability of the providers of goods and services under the law of products liability, including liability of manufacturers, certifiers of quality, testing companies, advertising agencies, insurance companies, designers, suppliers of component parts, repairmen, and all other suppliers of "products" and services under the theories of tort (negligence liability), breach of warranty (under the Uniform Commercial Code and federal legislation) and strict liability in tort, including proximate cause and other defense problems, special products case law, punitive damage problems, and class (derivative and representative) actions.
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An examination of the legal system governing the debtor and creditor relationship before and after bankruptcy under the Uniform Commercial Code and the Federal Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978.
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An introduction to law, legal principles, and legal systems and institutions affecting business in a global economy with multicultural features. Topics to be covered include international sales contracts, letters of credit, jurisdiction, nationalization, sovereign immunity, choice of forum, international arbitration, and choice of laws.
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An in depth examination is undertaken of the legal framework within which health care is rendered. Topics addressed include the organization of health care industry, professionalism vs. commercialism, access and delivery of health care services, costs and quality of care, statutory regulation and industry sponsored controls to monitor quality/costs, anit-trust challenges, purchase of health care services, contracts, medical malpractice, right to life, definition of death, human organ allocation.
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The law and art of business negotiation and the agony of commerical dispute resolution are studied. With regard to negotiation, topics covered include developing negotiating strategies, study of the sales cycle, creating Requests For Proposals and responses, and an examination of standard business contract terms and ethical issues. The study of dispute resolution includes a comparison of commerical litigation and arbitration, agreements to arbitrate and the law of arbitration, and mediation and other ADR techniques, and international arbitration.
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The course will examine curent legislative, regulatory and judicial regulation of the securities markets. It will also consider issues of criminality under other statutes, but the primary focus will be on measures designed to protect investors in the securities markets and on the disclosure requirements that apply to companies that issue securities. The course will also consider corporate governance requirements that apply to publicly traded companies. Aspects of criminality, including corrupt practices, RICO, antitrust and fraud are also covered.
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An in-depth examination of law as it applies to marketing, advertising and product development. Topics include the tort of unfair competition, false adversting, product disparagement, usurpation of business opportunity and other "business torts". The law of trademarks, patents, copyrights and trade secrets is examined. Internet domain-name controversies are studied and international treaties are covered.
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This course will initially review basic legal concepts and legal process as related to business, environmental law and regulations. The course will then consider issues of federalism and principles of administrative law and include a study of important environmental legislation including The Clean Air Act of 1970, The Clean Water Act, The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, and The Toxic Substances Control Act. The course will conclude with a survey of criminal and corporate liability for environmental law violations and international environmental law issues.
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The course will examine curent legislative and judicial regulation of the employment relationship. The primary focus will be on measures designed to protect private employees against disrimination in decisions such as hiring, termination and other changes in employment conditions, and against other types of "wrongful discharge". Other topics considered may include privacy and testing issues, regulation of benefits and regulations regarding health and safety.
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A comprehensive study of the legal, regulatory and business issues confronting the entertainment industry. The course includes academic analysis as well as pragmatic deal negotiation and structure. The various aspects of the industry that will be studied include music, motion pictures, television, theatre, sports, book publishing as well as the major support functionaries such as talent agencies, managers, accountants and attorneys. The course utilizes interactive class participation including mock deal and contract negotiations, dispute resolution and small group problem solving.
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The course covers real estate law and its institutional setting, with emphasis on interests in land, sales, zoning, leasing, property management, brokerage, and mortgage lending. Students will develop the ability to analyze underlying economic concerns, see both sides of an issue and read legal documents.
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Real estate involves long-term relationships that are structured through legal documents. This advanced course, building on the knowledge developed in RES3000/LAW3301, focuses on understanding transactional law and the underlying economics of transactions. It analyzes problems relating to legal documents for leasing, lending and brokerage, and also discusses topics in environmental law, federal income tax, entity structuring and negotiation. Students will develop a thorough grounding in the types of legal issues that businesspeople typically negotiate in real estate transactions. They will also develop ethical awareness through a consideration of the issues involved in negotiating aggressively, but honestly.
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This course covers the law of construction lending and postconstruction lending, participating mortgages, junior financing, lease financing, default, lender liability and ethics, and lender environmental issues. The course will discuss institutional real estate lenders and their business and regulatory structures. Basic finance, tax, and business cycle concepts will provide a business context. The course emphasizes the structuring of transactions, discussing legal cases and problems, documents, and negotiated resolutions.
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Courts, legislators and regulators routinely address controversial matters of social and public policy. This course will teach students about the major schools of legal theory and constitutional interpretation, including formalism, law and economics, pragmatism, originalism, feminist leagl theory and critical legal studies. By the end of the course, students will be capable of engaging in a sophisticated discussion of the strenghts and weaknesses of competing approaches to legal decision-making about significant public policy issues.
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The course reviews and analyzes contemporary U.S. Immigration, Naturalization and Citizenship law and the policy and politics behind it. Students will gain an understanding of the law and wills tudy proposed changes to it. Through lecutres, readings, and guest presentations, we will study the history of our immigration laws, how immigration laws are made, including both the legistlative process and how that process is influenced by current events, politics, and immigrant communities and the oranizations that represent them. Finally,we will study the impact of immigration on U.S. culture and economy.
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Real estate transactions cannot be understood without an understanding of the legal framework. This course introduces students to interests in real property, leases, contracts of sale, brokerage, mortgages, environmental law, and land use law. The course emphasizes the structuring of transactions and discusses legal cases and problems, documents, and negotiated resolutions.
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