BSc Management (Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship) with Industrial / Professional Experience / Course details

Year of entry: 2024

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Course unit details:
Business Law 1: Common Law and Common Business Liabilities

Course unit fact file
Unit code	BMAN24761
Credit rating	10
Unit level	Level 2
Teaching period(s)	Semester 1
Available as a free choice unit?	No

Overview

An introduction to the fundamental importance of law in everyday commerce in the common law world. This will deal with the common law approach to law, its creation, dynamic development and practical application to business, focussing on two of the most important areas regulating business obligations : contract law and negligence. It will also deal with risk evaluation and the capacity to influence, develop and change the law itself.

Aims

This course unit will examine how the law operates to ensure coherence, fairness and efficiency in the conduct of business.

This includes the common law method of creating, interpreting and progressing the law, through two particularly creative areas of business law – contract and negligence. The unit aims to demonstrate the commercial status of English law especially, and its important place in the international business context.

The unit will focus on the practical application of rules to real and hypothetical case studies, and the everyday relevance via current issues in the business world.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this course unit students should have:

A fundamental awareness and understanding of common law attitudes to business regulation and the importance for the international business world.
A fundamental awareness and understanding of the original common law system on which the others are modelled worldwide.
The ability to research existing law and to track new law as it develops, by locating and updating information from a variety of specialist sources in a fast moving legal area and by analysing legal trends and assessing their importance for business strategy.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures and Seminars

Virtual Learning Environment

Lecture slides and seminar materials will be provided on Blackboard

Total study hours: 100 hours split between lectures, classes, self study and preparation for classes and coursework.

Employability skills

Analytical skills: Key content enhancing these skills: Working with primary resources such as international databases and live case studies Practical exercises for confidence of application Contextual approach throughout
Problem solving: Skills highlighted include: Precision-based subject Group study & team work : allocation ; co-ordination; application & presentation Individual cold-start research Recognition & evaluation of new developments in the field Hands-on application of primary resources Practical case study analysis
Other: General skills included: Analysis, interpretation and critical thinking Communication Problem-solving Time management Organization IT and innovation Initiative Commercial awareness

Assessment methods

Coursework (100%)

Feedback methods

Informal advice and discussion during lectures and seminars
Specific course related feedback sessions
Written comments on assessed coursework

Study hours

Scheduled activity hours
Lectures	22
Seminars	10

Independent study hours
Independent study	68

Teaching staff

Staff member	Role
Fiona King	Unit coordinator

Additional notes

Programme Restrictions: Available only on the following programmes Level 2 BSc Management/Management (specialism), BSc International Management, BSc International Management with American Business Studies, BSc IBFE, BSc ITMB & BA (Econ); Option for level 3 BA ( Econ)

Timetablehttps://ughandbook.portals.mbs.ac.uk/Myprogramme/Teachingtimetables.aspx

For Academic Year: 2024/25

Updated: March 2024

Approved by: UG Committee

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