(Fall or Spring) 9 units. One of three alternative courses (15.615, 15.616, and 15.617) each designed to provide managers with the solid foundation in business law needed to exercise judgment and leadership when confronting a broad range of complex law-sensitive issues. Organizing a new company, venture capital, contracts, liability, employment, intellectual property, taking a company public, antitrust, managerial and corporate crime, going international, selling a business, bankruptcy and reorganization, and business disputes. Focus on US law but comparisons to other systems.

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