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COURSE TITLE: BUSINESS LAW
COURSE CODE: LLW
1201
HOURS TAUGHT: 3
hrs per week
PREREQUISITES: None
PURPOSE OF COURSE
The Course
introduces key principles/basic of law in relation to a business person and or
commerce. The course outline delineates relationship between that exists
between a business person and the legal regime in the Country. It brings out
the importance of basic knowledge of the law to a business person and or a
student studying business/commerce related course. The course further helps the
students to understand and apply legal principles in the various course unit
they do learn and or study and the course also forms a basis for understanding
complex business transactions.
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
By
the end of the course unit students should be able to;
·
Explain
and analyze the classification, purpose, sources, enactment process of the
law(legislation) and the courts system in
·
Define
and learn the basic principles of law and the relationship that exists between
them and the running of a business and or a commercial enterprise;
·
Explain
the importance of law to a business person and or a person engaged in
commercial activities;
·
Examine the Law of
Contract in the context of its historical development in
·
Examine the general
principles of the subject with reference to the leading English, Ugandan and
East African cases and problem areas.
·
Examine key areas that
affect the contractual obligations, identity essential elements required to
make a valid contract and when parties intent to create legal relationships.
·
Asses and analyze the
forms of contract and the method of which they can be discharged and breached.
·
Examine contemporary
issues and problems and enable students in understanding the Law of Contracts
as a fundamental factor in the context of business practices.
·
Analyze
the process of contract formation, both local and international, including the
negotiations process and further to learn how to draft a contract.
·
Examine
the processes involved in the formation and execution (including drafting) of
how contract of sale of goods including international sale of goods;
·
Define
the various terms that expose students to the nature of
international sales forms of contract especially methods of sale (standard
terms in international sale of goods).
Kampala International University,
Box 20000, Ggaba Road, Kansanga, Kampala
+(256) 392 001 816
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