LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS
LAW 2023 is an introduction to the fundamental elements of the Anglo-Saxon legal system and its common law origins. The scope of this course will include the application and operation of the legal system in the remedy of business disputes, the development and operation of the court system, and the regulation of American business and industry by the United States government.
A current Course Outline and Objectives will be available on Blackboard 8.
If you are enrolled in my Legal Environment of Business class you should log onto Blackboard 8 regularly to see the Course Schedule, Assignments, Announcements and Course Documents.
Interesting Web Sites:
For current legal news, see Current Legal News on Findlaw and Headline Legal News.
Go to the websites of the United States Supreme Court and Arkansas Judiciary for information about these Courts. FindLaw contains information about the U.S. Constitution. The First Amendment Center website has interesting news about the First Amendment. Also take a look at Notable First Amendment Court Cases on the ALA website.
See the AAA website for information about Alternative Dispute Resolution. See also JAMS.
The Arkansas Secretary of State website contains information about Arkansas corporations and other business entities.
The Arkansas Bar Association website has a lengthy list of helpful websites about Arkansas Government and Law, Federal Law, Law Schools, and various subject matter areas of the law.
Business Ethics websites include:
Business Ethics Online: The Magazine of Corporate Responsibility
Codes of Ethics – Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at IIT
Case Studies in Business Ethics
Links to Business Ethics Centers
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics – Business Ethics Resources
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Some Quotations about Law, Wisdom and Justice:
A lean
compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George Herbert (1593 - 1633) English author, poet, "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
By
education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man
passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to
obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.
Plato (427BC - 347BC) Greek philosopher, author, "Speakers Sourcebook I," by Eleanor Doan, 1960.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet . . . to carry out justice in every
case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the
challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
Warren E. Burger (1907 - 1995) US supreme court justice,
Address to the American Bar Association, 12 Feb 1978.
The
truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want
quiet.
Bill Cosby (1937 - ____) US comedian, actor, philosopher, author, "Fatherhood," 1986.
Let
him that would move the world first move himself.
The
greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
We
are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates (469-399 BCE), Philosopher
Today I give you two
examinations, one in
trigonometry and
one in
honesty. I hope
you pass them both, but if you must fail one, let it be trigonometry for there
are many good [people] in this world today who cannot pass an examination in
trigonometry, but there are no good [people] in the world who cannot pass an
examination in honesty. Former Chancellor
Madison Sarratt, Vanderbilt University.
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