Busn 420

Reading

Chapter 1: The Legal Environment

pp. 3 - 14 (Business Activities and the Legal Environment through Classifications of Law)

pp. 18 - 19 (Finding Statutory and Administrative Law)

pp. 21 - 25 (Case Titles and Terminology)

Chapter 2: Constitutional Law

pp. 32 - 35 (The Commerce Clause and the Expansion of National Powers)

pp. 37 - 40 (The First Amendment - Freedom of Speech)

pp. 44 - 48 (Due Process and Equal Protection through Privacy Rights)

Assignment

Complete the following, placing it in a single Word document:

As a new manager in your department, you are tasked with the job of providing employee training for members of your department who have interactions with the legal department. In order to ensure that everyone can effectively work with the legal staff, you must prepare a series of training document primers on various areas of law and legal concepts that are generally encountered in your company's day-to-day operations.

As an introduction to this training series, write a two-to-three page paper outlining the common law tradition and sources of law. In your treatment of these topics, you should also include a discussion of:

•What is common law?

•What are the sources of American law?

•What is the importance of precedent to the judicial decision-making process?

•What are equitable and legal remedies?

Note: Please be sure you refer to the numbers that appear on the printed pages in your electronic readings, not the numbers that appear with the navigation icons. Be sure to submit your work to the Week 1 Assignments Dropbox.