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286 The Boston College Catalog 2003-2004 MANAGEMENT MJ 022 Law II Business Law (Fall/Spring: 3) Prerequisite: MJ 021 Recommended for Accounting and Marketing students and for Prelaw students who are interested in a comprehensive overview of the law. Required for those taking the CPA Examination in New York and numerous other states. The course complements the Law I I ntroduction to Law course, providing broad coverage of topics related to law in business. The content includes many subjects tested on the Business Law portion of the CPA examination including the Uniform Commercial Code law of contracts and sales, negotiable instruments, and secured transactions. The law of personal and intellectual property; bailments; agency; various forms of business organizations including general and limited partnerships, corporations, and LLCs; bankruptcy, wills, trusts and estates, and accountants liability are discussed. The Department MJ 031 Introduction to Law Honors (Fall: 3) This course is a more rigorous version of MJ 021 designed for students in the Honors Program. David P. Twomey MJ 147 Constitutional Law (Fall: 3) This course covers, in-depth, the following subjects: the nature and scope of judicial review, national legislative powers, the distribution of federal powers, state power to regulate, state power to tax, substantive protection of economic interests, protection of individual rights, freedom of religion, equal protection, congressional enforcement of civil rights, limitations on judicial power and review, and current trends. Angela Lowell MJ 148 International Law (Fall: 3) The course examines the legal relationships between individuals, business enterprises, and governments in the world community. Emphasis is on the private business transaction. Course objectives include how to assess the risks of doing business internationally and what legal steps may be taken to minimize or assign risk. Topics covered include different methods of transacting international business, from exporting and importing to direct foreign investment, issues in international contracting, the documentary transaction, and licensing intellectual property. Stephanie Greene MJ 152 Labor and Employment Law (Fall/Spring: 3) Considerations pertaining to organized labor in society are examined including the process of establishing collective bargaining, representation, and bargaining status under the Railway Labor Act and the National Labor Relations Act. Discussion of leading cases relevant to the legal controls that are applicable to intra-union relationships and the legal limitations on employer and union economic pressures. The law of arbitration, public sector collective bargaining, and employee safety and health law are studied. Topics including laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability are examined, and the developing law of employee privacy. David P. Twomey MJ 154 Insurance (Spring: 3) The structure and organization of different types of insurance policies, including life, property, and casualty policies, will be examined and the fundamental legal principals of insurance law as applied to modern business requirements will be reviewed. The goal of this course is to focus students attention on how insurance solves problems for business firms, individual consumers, and society. The pervasiveness of insurance in our society, as well as the role of the federal and state governments in regulating the insurance industry will be examined carefully. Richard Powers MJ 156 Real Estate (Fall/Spring: 3) The course examines the sources of property law, legal nature and forms of real estate interests, inter-vivos transfers of real property rights, brokerage operations, principles of real estate, tax aspects, land development, management of real estate properties, government involvement in constitutional and public policy considerations of land use, and transfers of real estate at death (wills and intestacy). Richard J. Monahan Frank J. Parker, S. J. MJ 159 Topics: Law Visual Arts and Ethics (Fall: 3) This course is designed for the art history, studio art, and performing arts majors. We cover topics such as museum and gallery administration, art collecting, history and archeology, international law, intellectual property law (copyright and trademark), constitutional law (issues of obscenity, censorship, and politically offensive work), fakes and forgeries, auctions, photography, choreography, music and Internet law, and theater issues. Megan Carroll Shea Undergraduate and Graduate Course Offerings MJ 600 Topics/Business Law: Bermuda Law and Practice (Spring: 3) This course in international law and business practice uses an island 600 miles from the American shoreline as a study example of the interrelationship of all sectors of Bermuda with the U.S. Bermuda is a nation currently 70 percent non-white in racial composition. The International Business, International Banking and Tourism sectors will be studied as will Caribbean integration. Frank J. Parker, S.J. MJ 603 Cyberlaw for Business (Spring: 3) This course in business law examines the legal issues and challenges created by the rapid emergence of the Internet and e-commerce. The course will emphasize issues that effective managers should be familiar with regarding online transactions. Topics discussed in this dynamic area include business and government functions that have migrated to the Internet, contracting, privacy, information security, copyrights, trademarks, patents, obscenity, defamation, crime, international law, securities offerings, jurisdiction, and tax issues. Margo E. K. Reder MJ 631 African Business (Fall: 3) Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement A survey of political, economic, physical, legal, cultural, and religious influences that affect the ability of foreign corporations to do business in Africa. North-South dialogue, development questions, nationalization, strategic concerns, economic treaties, and import-export regulations will be examined. Frank J. Parker, S.J. MJ 674 Sports Law (Fall: 3) This course will examine the legal aspects of four major components of the American leisure time industry: entertainment, sports, tourism, and gambling. Among the subjects to be discussed are business issues in the entertainment field; protecting creative works through copyrights and trademarks; copyright defamation and privacy; principles of recording contracts; film and TV contracts; managers, agents, and producers; liability and legislation in sports; the regulation of organized sports; rights of players and own-

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