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Offered each semester. Nature and function of law and legal institutions in society, with emphasis on those areas of law most relevant to business operations. Topics include the court systems, torts, the Constitution and business administrative agencies, international law, labor law, antitrust law, and environmental law. A student may not receive credit for both BA 3010 and BA 4400.

This course examines ethical and legal issues that affect business decision-making. The course covers ethical decision making, including the concepts of professionalism, integrity-based management, compliance-based management, and corporate social responsibility. The course then focuses on the ethical and legal issues associated with the legal system, the litigation process, alternative dispute resolution techniques, business torts based on negligence, intent and strict liability, including fraud, product liability, misrepresentations, and misleading advertising, contracts, consumer protection issues, business crimes, labor and employment law, laws surrounding equal opportunity, and property law.

The goals of this course are to make the student a socially responsible manager by focusing on the economic, ethical, legal, discretionary aspects of managerial decision. As a result of this course students should be able to: identify and analyze the basic legal and ethical issues affecting business decisions , improve critical and reflective thinking skills by identifying and addressing legal and ethical issues , improve communication skills through class participation, understand the basic elements of methods of resolving business disputes through litigation and alternative dispute resolution techniques, understand the basic elements of contract law, understand the basic legal issues associated with the employment relationship, understand the basic torts that affect business, and understand the basic elements of criminal law.

The University of New Orleans International Summer School program has a mandatory class attendance policy. All students are required to attend class for all morning classes and any required afternoon and/or weekend fields trips and lectures. No unexcused absences are allowed. However, LFU students who have to miss a UNO class due to LFU examinations in the first two weeks of our program, can receive one excused absence for this. Any further unexcused absences will result in an academic penalty. Each faculty member determines the penalty for missed classes. Most professors deduct a letter grade for each additional missed class day. For details, please refer to your course syllabi, which will be distributed on the first day of class. Mail: Center-New-Orleans@uibk.ac.at