Business Law

Integrated with

CyberLaw, Entertainment Law

and Sports Law

 

 

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This document is one of the projects created by the Business Education 2020 Leadership Committee.  Committee members who participated in the creation of this document were:   Jennifer Dunn, Adirondack Central School; Brenda Lee, Greenwich Central School; Sharon McPherson, Port Jervis Central School.

INTRODUCTION:

 

In the 21st century, business law as we know it is going through the growing pains of changing to keep up with our ever-evolving fields of business and technology.  Three of the fastest growing of these emerging trends involves the fields of sports law, entertainment law and cyberlaw. The purpose of this document is to make it easy to integrate the content from the three new courses into a traditional Business Law course.  Each of these three modules encompasses a multitude of areas of law.  Our goal is to show the connections between each of the traditional areas of law and each of the three courses through color-coded references.  See table below.

 

 

 

 

 

Business Law Modules

Cyberlaw

Entertainment Law

Sports Law

The Legal Environment

Contracts

 

Sales Contracts/Credit Transactions

Bailments

 

 

 

Real Property

 

 

 

Insurance

 

 

 

Financial Transfers

 

 

Employer/Employee Relationships

 

Business Ownership

 

 

 

Transfer of Property Through Wills & Intestacy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key:     Cyberlaw in Blue

 

            Entertainment Law in Red

           

            Sports Law in Green

 

 

 

COURSE:   BUSINESS LAW

MODULE:   THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT

ESTIMATED TEACHING TIME:  4 weeks

 

CONTENT OUTLINE

 

      1.1   Meaning And Necessity For Law

 

            a. Individual vs. group rights and responsibilities

            b. The need for law and order

              1. Protection of private property

              2. Protection against personal injury

              3. Right to bear arms

              4. Personal protection against crime

            c. Definition of law

 

      1.2   Classifications Of The Law

 

            a. Natural law

            b. Moral law

 


Course:  Sports Law, p. 12                                                                      

Module:  Classification of Sports:  Amateur Sports

Section:  Unethical Conduct

Case:      Conrad v. University of Washington

Topic:     Ethics

 


Course:  Sports Law, p. 23                    

Module:  Common Torts and Crimes in Sports

Section:  Betting/Gambling

Case:      Rose v. Giamatti

Topic:      Ethics

 

            c. Man-made law

              I. International law

              2. National law

              3. State law

              4. Municipal law

            d. Future implications of space law

              1. Satellite communications

              2. Shuttle disaster liability

              3. Ownership rights of space

              4. Patent development in space

              5. "Common heritage of mankind" principle

              6. Treaty applications

 

      1.3   Historical Development of Law

 

            a. Roman civil law

            b. English common law

            c. Law of equity

 

      1.4   Sources of Written Law

 

            a. Constitutional law

              1. Federal

 

 


Course:    Entertainment Law, pp. 5-16

Module:    Privacy

Section I:  Defenses:  First Amendment freedom of expression

Case:        Haelen Laboratories v. Topps Chewing Gum, p. 16

Topic:       “Right” of Publicity

 


Course:     Sports Law, p. 15

Module:     Classification of Sports:  Amateur Sports

Section:     Drug Testing

Case:         Veronia School District