Friday, March 23

I only received on time 1 concept map. The rest of the groups did not submit anything, made the wrong assignment (despite clear announcements on this blog), or sent the work late. Anyway, every group has to present to the rest the outline/mindmap/graphic summary as requested, and we will start next week. Make, improve or/and complete your homework (the presentation is worth half of the grade). 

Today is due the work for this week. I will ask a copy in print (in addition to the electronic version), per group, at the beginning of the next session

On Wednesday 28th, the class will begin at 10:30am

This was up to you to inquire about, but to prevent appeals to the most predictable excuses, I link here two tutorials out of dozens available online. I am sure many of you use these tools long ago!

1. Bubbl

2. Spiderscribe

Week 8: March 19-23

From the beginning it was explained that consistent involvement is needed to be able to follow the course. This involves regular visits to this blog and following instructions.
For clarifications, assistance, and additional materials: write, ask, contact me via Skype or arrange for an appointment.

• On Friday, last week you were to hand in the conceptual map based on the file summarizing the past lecture on personality law. All assignments are to be made by the groups, unless otherwise instructed. Completing the outline with lecture notes or additional information is always welcome and recommended. On Wednesday 28 of this month the teams will begin presenting these to the rest of the group, explaining how the information was selected and organized. No group should take more than 5-7 minutes explaining this outline. Please refer to the previous post that proposed this exercise.

• The assignment for week No.8 is to be based on the topics proposed during the last lecture plus one that every group has to research about. You can select one of the following subjects and make the corresponding report. This should not exceed 3 pages. Submit by Friday 23 AND bring in print on the 28.

1. Consumer Protection Legislation	Look for the regulatory sources at the national level (your country) and briefly explain their content	-        Who are consumers -        Against whom they must be protected? -        Why this legislation would be necessary if the civil laws anyway protect? -        Examples -        How this affects businesses?
2. Corporate Criminal liability	Look for legislation and doctrinaire sources (writings of scholars, articles, books)	-        Discuss the connection between criminal laws and civil laws -        Comment on the responsibility that is attributable to fictional entities as opposed to personal responsibility -        Why this is relevant to the topic of Personality law? -        Can one talk about criminal companies?
3. Major Business Forms in Your Country	Look for the legal provisions that regulate and describe them, only then use other information sources to complete the chart	Draw a comparative chart that illustrates the main similarities and differences between these and explain the main aspects that are used to classify them. Bring up identifiable examples of such business arrangements

In addition, every group has to look for legislation and doctrine about the following special forms:
Joint Ventures, Syndicates, Federations, Trusts, Cooperatives, Foundations.
Are they all available to business?

SIMPLER IS ALWAYS BETTER. Turn cluttered information into simple outlines!

 

Week 7: March 12-16

Get acquainted with different tools to make concept maps or graphic outlines. Word and PowerPoint are the simplest ones, but hosted on line are plenty that could help your learning processes, and improve studying and presenting ideas. Some of them are: cmap, text2map, cayra, bookvar, etc. The next class, after reviewing the notes that arrived to your mailboxes today, each group will prepare a concept map to be explained to the rest. It might take one or two weeks to complete this assignment. To facilitate it, be ready and prepare.

Downloadable templates are widely available as well:

Week 6: March 5-9

Summary of the past lectures:
Some of the regulatory systems societies use to exercise social order and control are besides the laws, morals and uses. The sources of legal mandates are of two kinds; material corresponding to those inspiring and motivating legal development. Most probably reflecting ideology, societal needs or pressure, and cultural evolution. Nowadays technology plays a big role in these dynamics too. Formal sources refer to the processes and formats that contain normative legal content. These are only four according to legal science: doctrine (not binding but with interpretative value), jurisprudence (case law, the doctrine of precedent or stare decisis), custom (in as much as the law assigns to it a value) and the laws in general sense. The most restrictive meaning of the laws is explained in the theory of legal hierarchy and the functioning of the different regulatory layers we studied during the past weeks. Democracy is the political environment that we collaborate with and explain in more detail. This is a model that rests upon a well known doctrine, the doctrine of the rule of law.
This is the last introductory topic this class will extend with during the next lecture. With it the foundation to better be able to interpret more specialized content will be wrapped up. Each student should have get acquainted at least with the explanations we already made in class, one or several of the readings that were suggested or the use of such expression.
Think about the applicability of these ideas to the cyberspace and all emerging virtual communities (myspace, second life, even facebook, linkedin, etc).
On Wednesday the group will also start discussing civil laws on personality: Who are "persons?" What type of persons legal systems classify and why?