Business Law 265, Legal Environment of Business

Lecture Outlines

Please note that these are outlines only, not lecture notes.  Their purpose is to inform you of the topics that I intend to discuss in the lecture, and to make your note-taking easier by eliminating the need to copy the outline.  Simply download the outlines, and print them.  All reading assignments refer to the text  LAW FOR BUSINESS, 9th edition (2006), by Barnes, Dworkin and Richards.  Due to time constraints, some topics listed in these outlines might not be discussed in the lecture.  Copyright Jerry Wegman. 

                                                 I. Contracts  

Class 1               Nature of Contracts, Ch. 9

Class 2               Offers, Ch. 10

Class 3               Acceptances,  Ch.. 11                  

Class 4               Consideration  Ch. 12   

Class 5               Capacity, Ch. 13

Class 6               Voluntary Consent, Ch. 14

Class 7                Illegality, Ch. 15

Class 8                Oral/Written Contracts, Ch. 16

Class 9                Third Parties, Ch. 17

Class 10               Performance and Remedies, Ch. 18

                                            II.  Legal Environment

Class 11,               Dispute Settlement, Ch. 2

Class 12                Criminal Law, Ch. 5

Class 13                Negligence and Strict Liability, Ch. 7

Class 14                 Employment Law, Ch. 25

Class 15                 Bankruptcy, Ch. 44

                                               III.  Antitrust and Property

Class 16                 Antitrust, Ch. 45

Class 17                  Personal Property & Bailments, Ch. 33

Class  18 & 19        Real Property, Ch. 34

Class 20                  Real Property Transactions  (no reading assignment)

Class 21                  Landlord-Tenant, Ch. 35