BU231 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intentional Tort, Corporate Social Responsibility, Strict Liability
Document Summary
Goals of the course: risk management - knowing if you have a legal risk, identify legal risk, recognize potential for legal liability, understand the link between law and ethics, corporate social responsibility, develop legal and ethical risk management strategies. What does the course cover: public law, law governing relationship between individuals and the government, maybe be personal affairs (marriage) but the government is still involved, private law, law governing relationship between individuals. Domestic law - laws that are international (aren"t really any because there is no enforcement) international law is called soft law because its based on compliance: public vs. Code: judges then interpret the law , laws are very similar between the two but the way the are enforced and made are very different. Fault is: two kinds of tort"s, intentional, unintentional, the goal of a tort suit is not to punish the wrongdoer but to simply compensate for the loss.
