Business Law course FREE teacher resources and trial access to online course solution as well as a correlation to WI state standards.

This lesson uses the example of the 2008 contested Senate election between Al Franken and Norm Coleman in Minnesota to discuss contested elections, counting votes, and recount laws. Looks at recount laws in your own state.

Role of the engineer as patent expert and as technical witness in court and patent interference and related proceedings. Rights and obligations of engineers in connection with educational institutions, government, and large and small businesses. Various manners of transplanting inventions into business operations, including development of New England and other US electronics and biotech industries and their different types of institutions. American systems of incentive to creativity apart from the patent laws in the atomic energy and space fields. For graduate students only; others see 6.901.

In The Law of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets, much of the course focuses on M&A and the law-sensitive aspects of financial services and financial markets. The course is designed to be an introduction to business law which covers the fundamentals, including contracts, liability, regulation, employment, and corporations. 15.617 provides an in-depth treatment of the law of finance.

This is a short and fun mock trial to try with kids (and adults!) of any age. It is a criminal case that revolves around the testimony of the witnesses on each side. Concepts involved inculde:
• Criminal v. Civil Law
• Prosecution & Prosecutors
• Defense and Defendants
• Witnesses
• Telling the truth
• Understanding different perspectives
• Responsibility for actions
• Questioning (including direct and cross examination)
• Developing a theory or explanation of a case
• The roles of people in the courts