Business Law: A Comprehensive Summary

Business Law: A Comprehensive Summary

Welcome to The Law Simplified's comprehensive course on Business Law! This course has been designed to provide the fundamentals of the Law pertaining to Contracts, Intellectual Property, Sale of Goods and Company Law.

'Business Law: A Comprehensive Summary' harnesses lessons from some of The Law Simplified's best selling courses in Law, on Udemy, to provide you with a structured, academically proven set of lessons which are essential for both students and professionals in Law and Business.

This course broadly covers:

• Contract Law

• Commercial Law

• Intellectual Property Law

• Company Law

Including specifics, such as:

• How a Contract is formed and discharged

• The regulation of terms and exclusion clauses

• Fundamentals of Agency Law and the relationship between Principals and Agents

• Sale of Goods and the obligation of buyers and sellers

• Copyright Law and the enforcement of Economic and Moral Rights

What's more, the inclusion of a comprehensive guide on Company Law ensures a practitioner's approach towards formation of a Company, its operation and liquidation.

Complete Topic Breakdown:

1. Contract Law

   1. Agreement (Offer & Acceptance)

   2. Consideration

   3. Formative Requirements

   4. Terms

   5. Regulation of Terms

   6. Misrepresentation

   
   

2. Commercial Law

   1. Introduction to the Law of Agency

      1. Types of Authority

      2. Agency by Estoppel

      3. Ratification

      4. Necessity

      5. Relationship with Third Parties

      6. Merger & Election

      7. Undisclosed Agency

      8. Duties of an Agent

      9. Duties of a Principal

      10. Termination of Agency

   2. Introduction to the Sale of Goods

      1. Definitions

      2. Categorizations

      3. Types of Acts

      4. Passing of Property

      5. Risk

      6. Transfer of Title

      
      

3. Intellectual Property

   1. Introduction to Intellectual Property

   2. Copyright Law

      1. Introduction

      2. Economic Rights

      3. Moral Rights

   3. Industrial Design

      1. Introduction

      2. Rights to an Industrial Design

   4. Patents

      1. Introduction

      2. Rights of the Owner

   
   

4. Company Law

   1. Forms of Business Organization

      1. Sole Trader & Partnerships

      2. Companies

   2. Nature of Legal Personality

   3. Lifting the Veil of Incorporation

      1. Legislative Intervention

      2. Evolution of Caselaw

      3. Commercial Tort

   4. Promoters and Pre-Incorporation Contracts

   5. Raising Capital

      1. Equity

         1. Introduction

         2. Financial Conduct Authority & LSE

         3. Regulating Takeovers

         4. Insider Dealing

      2. Debentures

         1. Introduction to Debentures

         2. Redress for Lenders & Liquidation

         3. Book Debts

   6. Share Capital

      1. Doctrine & Raising Capital

      2. Returns

      3. Reduction of Share Capital

      4. Public Companies

   7. Class Rights

      1. Fundamentals of Shares

      2. Classes of Shares

      3. Variation of Class Rights