NEW YORK UNIVERSITY



NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Business Law for Managers – B95.2314.20

Monday/Wednesday: 3:00 – 4:20pm

Room: KMEC 3-60

SPRING 2007

Course Outline

Professor Jeremy Wiesen

KMEC 10-85

(212) 998-0052

jwiesen@stern.nyu.edu

Office hours:

Course Description: What social and environmental impact issues do we cover in the MBA Business Law course? They are: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Corporate Governance, Insider Trading, Fraud and Fiduciary Duty, Ethics and the Origins of Law and Legal Procedures and Court Processes, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Mediation and Arbitration.

Text: Wiesen abridged edition of West's Business Law, 9th edition, West Publishing, 2003

Requirements: Students are expected to read the assignments listed below and prepare answers to the questions at the end of the chapter, to be handed in (keep copy for yourself.) The mid-term and final will each count for 50% of the final grade. The final exam is not cumulative.

|Date |Assignment |

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|January 22 |Chapter 1: Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning |

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|January 24 |Chapter 2: Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution |

| |Chapter 3: Court Procedures |

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|January 29 |Chapter 9: Nature and Terminology |

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|January 31 |Chapter 10: Agreement |

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|February 5 |Chapter 11: Consideration |

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|February 7 |Chapter 12: Capacity and Legality |

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|February 12 |Chapter 13: Genuineness of Assent |

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|February 14 |Chapter 14: The Statute of Frauds |

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|February 19 |No Class: President’s Day |

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|February 21 |Chapter 15: Third Party Rights |

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|February 26 |Chapter 16: Performance and Discharge |

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|February 28 |Chapters 17: Breach of Contract and Remedies |

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|March 5 |Chapter 6: Torts |

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|March 7 |Mid-Term Exam |

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|March 12-16 |No Class: SPRING BREAK |

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|March 19 |Chapter 6: Strict Liability and Product Liability |

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|March 21 |Chapter 23: Sales and Lease Warranties |

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|March 26 |Chapter 31: Agency Formation and Duties |

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|March 28 |Chapter 32: Liability to Third Party Parties and Termination |

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|April 2 |Chapter 37: Corporations – Formation and Financing |

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|April 4 |Chapter 38: Corporations – Directors, Officers, and Shareholders |

|April 9 |Chapter 40: Corporations – Investor Protection and Online Securities Offerings |

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|April 11 |Appendix B: The BarChris Case & The Texas Gulf Sulphur Case |

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|April 16 |Appendix B: The BarChris Case & The Texas Gulf Sulphur Case |

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|April 18 |Appendix A: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 |

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|April 23 |Appendix A: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 |

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|April 25 |Article: “Congress Enacts Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Two-Ton Gorilla Awakes and Speaks” by Jeremy |

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|April 30 |Final Exam Review session |

|May 2 |FINAL EXAM |

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