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Course Syllabus

Course Type: Electives (choose 4 Courses) (Done via Tubeclasses or other universities for Credit)

Course Code: MBA607

Course Name: Business Law

Course Outline

One of the most interesting and important developments in social science since 1970 has been the "discovery" of a consistent economic logic underlying the great common law subjects of property, contract, tort and crime, the thousand-year-old bedrock of the English and American legal systems. This logic prevails in the information age. Property and contract provide the institutional scaffolding that makes free exchange in markets possible, while the liability systems of tort and crime appear to mimic market exchange in areas of human activity where free exchange itself, for well-defined reasons, is not possible. This course seeks to expose this underlying economic logic through the close investigation of a series of paradigmatic problems and examples in light of some simple but very powerful economic ideas. The course assumes no prior background in economics or law, and begins with an introduction to the basic concepts of property, exchange, efficiency and externality. On this foundation, specific topics in the law, including property, tort and crime, eminent domain, intellectual property and criminal procedure, are considered. Each group of lectures will elaborate on a different concrete problem or example to suggest the range of legal issues and questions to which economic reasoning can be productively applied. The ideas and modes of analysis developed in the course are not difficult or mysterious, but the questions of interpretation and policy that they raise about a subject that affects everyone are challenging and provocative.

Course Syllabus

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WHAT TO DO NEXT (If you are interested in this course)

Students please note that all ‘Value’ courses must be done via Calwest Tubeclasses. However for the Core building block and Electives courses students will have four alternatives choices for completing the course.

Please Click on One Choice from List Below and then Scroll Down to Register.

  1. undertaking the course via Tubeclasses (if available) ($ 800.00) ;
  2. undertaking (free) MOOC courses and having the assessments suitably externally proctored and then applying to Calwest for credit towards their degree program ($ 25 per course);
  3. undertaking similar courses elsewhere (including MOOC Courses) and having them assesses for credit by Calwest professors via a Challenge Exam ($ 250 per course);
  4. OR

  5. (4) applying for Prior Learning Credit for a course done in the past from a recognized institution ($ 25 per course).

If you wish to undertake the Calwest Tubeclass for this course, the lecture topic PowerPoint’s that relate to the text book will be provided upon payment of the course fee ($ 250). The link to the recommended MOOC provider will also be provided, and can be used as a supplementary vehicle for those undertaking the course. Students however have the choice of undertaking a MOOC course without enrolling in a Tubeclass, but need to have their assessments suitably proctored. Some Calwest elective courses do not have a Tubeclass, and in such cases students need to undertake the course via a MOOC offering, or at another accredited university.