Department

Management

Course Code

210 MGT

Course Title

Legal Environment of Business

Course Credit

 3 hours

Prerequisite Course

101 MGT

Course Level

5

Course Description

This course provides explanation of the nature and components of the legal environment of business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The course focuses on the legal aspects of individual and business transactions and covers the following topics: contracts, agency, laws of employment, securities, personal, real-estate, and intellectual property, e-commerce, the environment, and rights of creditors and debtors, the legal rules regulating products, marketing, and advertising, and the responsibility of the producer towards the consumer.

The Course will provide students with the following :

•  Understand the interrelationships among the basic components of legal environment of business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia including the judicial system, the legislative system, and the executive system.

• Apply the legal principles in solving problems related to contracts, responsibility, agency, employment, personal, real-estate, and intellectual property, e-commerce, the environment, rights of creditors and debtors, marketing and advertising.

• Understand the important legal issues affecting international business and to realize the role of the main organizations dealing with international business.

• Monitor the legal developments related to the business environment and connecting them to the course.

• Realize the ethical issues related to conducting business.

Course Material

Book: Business Law and the Regulatory Environment. by Jane P. Mallor, A James Barnes, Thomas Bowers, Michael J. Phillips & Arlen W. Langvardt (MCGRAW HILL 2006)

Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment,; 14 edition by Jane Mallor, A. James Barnes, L. Thomas Bowers, and Arlen Langvardt, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2009.

Reading Recommendation

Book: Business & Legal Environment. by Mariane Moody Jennings (PWS-Kent Publishing Boston. 2^nd Edition.

The Legal and Regulatory Environemnt of

Business, 14^th Edition, by O Lee Reed, Peter J Shedd and Jere W Morehead, McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Law, Business and Society, 8^th Edition, by Tony McAdams, McGraw-Hill, 2007.

Law for Business, 9^th Edition, by A James Barnes, Terry Morehead Dworkin and Eric L Richards, McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Course Language

English