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Business Law

Welcome to Mr. Bushnell's Business Law Class

Business Law

INSTRUCTIONAL MANAGEMENT PLAN

Teacher: Mr. Bushnell
To contact teacher:
508-528-5600 Ext. 3151
Email: bushnellr@franklin.k12.ma.us



STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Students are to report to class on time.
2. Students are expected to report with books and workbooks.
3. Students will complete homework on time.
4. Students will show respect to the teacher and other students.
5. Students will contribute in a positive way to class activities.
6. Students are responsible to make up any work that is missed due to absence or other reasons.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
1. Students are required to read West’s Business and Personal Law.
2. Students are required to complete all class and homework assignments.
3. Students are required to complete all special projects.

GRADING AND MARKING POLICY
1. Tests or quizzes will be given after each chapter is completed. These will represent 60% of the grade.
2. Class and homework assignments represent 20% of the grade.
3. Special projects will represent 20% of the grade.
4. Student participation is an important component of the class. Student participation is measured using the following:
a. On time to class
b. Bringing books and workbooks to class
c. Cooperation with teacher and other students.
d. Willingness to join discussion


MISREPRESENTATION OF ACADEMIC WORK
1. See the academic honesty policy posted in each room.

LATE WORK POLICY
1. It is the responsibility of the student to pass in all assignments on time.
2. Class assignments or homework missed due to absence for any reason are due one day after the student has returned to class. No credit will be given for work not completed.
3. Missed quizzes or tests must be made up within one week after a student returns from an absence. No credit will be given for missed quizzes or tests.
4. No exceptions to (2) and (3) above will be made without the permission of the teacher, and those will be made only in extreme cases.


Text: West’s Business and Personal Law
Publisher: West Publishing Company
Authors: Donald L. Cooper, Roger Leroy Miller, Donna Parker Murray

Supplementary Materials: Student Activity Workbook and Case Law Handbook

Course Description:
Business Law is a course that focuses on both the substance and the process of our legal system, and reflects many social and ethical issues. The course has great practical value as it provides background for professional explorations as well as illuminating the problems of private life. Knowledge of business law is useful for all students, because all students eventually assume roles as citizens, workers, and consumers in their communities and in society at large.
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Course Objectives: After completing this course the student will be able to:
1. Recognize and discuss the differences in business law and personal law.
2. Explain legal procedures and the range of legal remedies.
3. List the sources and methods of legal research.
4. Discuss the five major sources of today’s law.
5. Define legal terms used in both business law and personal law.
6. Apply legal principles to legal situations.
7. Formulate both oral and written arguments based on facts and legal principles.
8. Explain the social impact of legislation and legal decisions.
9. Discuss the rights and duties of citizens, consumers, employees, and business
owners.


Topics Covered:

1. Introduction to the Law
· Understand history of American legal system
· Identify sources of American history
· Contrast the adversary system and the inquisitorial system
· Distinguish civil law from criminal law
· Compare federal law and state law

2. Law and Individual Rights
· Understand Constitutional principles for individuals and government
· Explain the judicial review process
· Identify the qualifications and terms of appointment for justices of the United States Supreme Court
· Explain the purpose of the Bill of Rights
· Explain freedoms of speech and religion

3. Courts and the Legal System
· Describe the state court system
· Describe the federal court system
· Explain the right to a jury trial

4. Criminal Law
· Define Criminal Law
· Understand the classification of crime
· Establish criminal liability
· Explain defenses against criminal liability
· Describe crimes that affect business
· Explain how bail is used in the legal system

5. Tort Law
· Explain the differences between civil law and criminal law
· Describe intentional torts against persons
· Describe intentional torts against property
· Explain negligence and strict liability
· Explain common defenses to torts
· Differentiate between intentional torts and unintentional torts

6. Ethics and Social Responsibility
· Describe business ethics
· Distinguish between ethics and the law
· Explain the role of ethics in business decision making
· Analyze corporate social responsibility to consumers, employees, and society


7. Agency
· Characterize types of agency relationships
· Describe how an agency is formed
· Explain the duties of agents and principals
· Explain the nature of an agent’s authority
· Explain the ways an agency can be terminated

8. Labor law
· Understand unions and collective bargaining
· List legislation pertaining to unions
· Describe legislation pertaining to employee rights
· Evaluate privacy rights of employees

9. Employment Law
· Discuss employment discrimination
· Interpret Title VII of The Civil Rights Act of 1964
· List federal acts that prohibit discrimination
· Explain federal and state acts that protect workers
· Specify federal acts that provide for retirement
· Explain how unemployment compensation programs work
· Discuss limits on the use of child labor



10. Minors and the Law
· Know the age of majority
· Describe an emancipated minor
· Explain the relationship between schools and minors
· Identify a minor’s responsibility and liability for torts
· Determine responsibility for crimes under the juvenile justice system

11. Family Law
· Describe the marriage contract
· Explain the legal rights and obligations of marriage
· Explain the legal processes involved in dissolution of a marriage
· Discuss the legal questions involved with the property distribution, spousal support, and child custody as it relates to the dissolution of a marriage
· Describe agreements that modify the marriage contract

12. Personal Property and Bailments
· Classify personal property
· Describe the typed of ownership of personal property
· Establish ways of acquiring personal property
· Differentiate between mislaid, lost, and abandoned property
· Specify the elements of a bailment
· Identify the rights and duties of bailors and bailees

13. Real Property
· Describe the nature of real property
· Explain four ways in which property is transferred
· Distinguish among an easement, a profit, and a license
· Relate the steps for the sale of real estate

14. Landlords and Tenants
· Characterize the landlord-tenant relationship
· Describe tenants’ rights and duties
· Describe landlords’ rights and duties
· Explain tenant remedies
· Explain landlord remedies

15. Insurance
· Explain insurance concepts
· Apply insurance terminology
· Analyze an insurance contract
· Characterize types of insurance

16. Wills and Trusts
· Discuss estate planning
· Describe types of wills
· Create a formal will
· Explain intestacy laws
· Define trusts
· Explain types of trusts





Students are currently studying the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They are working on a project to produce a poster about one of the Amendments to the Constitution, which will include a history of the amendment, and an explanation of what pushed the ratification of the amendment.

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Updated: Jan 13, 2006  



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