Tony Bangs : Courses and Seminars
Legal Transactions--Retail Sector
LAWS 91592
This seminar offers an overview of the U.S. high end retailing industry's principal legal issues and challenges. This seminar will focus on luxury retailer relations with vendors and other third-party business associates, customers, and investors. The instructors will emphasize the practical interplay and tension between commercial realities and legal requirements. Students will develop an understanding of key licensing, intellectual property (including counterfeit goods), antitrust, corporate governance, and professional responsibility legal issues and practice pitfalls. The instructors will strive to demonstrate the increasing professional responsibilities and burdens to which in-house counsel are subject.
Course materials will include actual contracts, retailer policies and practices, litigation and internal-investigation documents, and other relevant materials.
There are no prerequisites for this seminar, but the instructors believe that students who are interested in, and have some knowledge of, the many facets of business law, such as intellectual property, antitrust, and corporate governance, will derive the greatest benefit from this seminar.
Grades will be based upon short written exercises (40 percent), a take-home examination (40 percent), and class participation (20 percent) - including participation in mock negotiations and business-planning exercises.
The instructors will emphasize quality of oral and written expression and legal analysis.
Spring 2012
Tony Bangs, David Zarfes
