The objectives below are tasks that you should be able to complete following the chapter coverage, or questions that you should be able to answer.

Chapter 1 - Business and Its Legal Environment

Section 1

1. Compare and contrast  schools of jurisprudential thought, including the natural law school, the positivist school, the historical school, and legal realism

Section 2

2. Explain Exhibit 1-1

Sections 3, 4 and 5

3. Illustrate how law is applied in our legal system. This involves:

    a. Identifying and applying the sources of law in America

    b. Understanding the rank ordering of the various sources of law

    c. Explaining our common law history and applying the common law process and the concept of stare decisis

    d. Comparing and contrasting law versus equity, including remedies

    e. Using sources of law to analyze Shannon v. Wilson, Jackson v. Cadillac Club, Archer v. Sigma Tau, and the related Arkansas statutes from my Website

    f. Explain the IRAC model of analysis

Section 6

4. Compare and contrast law classifications, including criminal versus civil law

Section 7

5. Explain the process of finding case and statutory law, including case citations

Section 8

6. Explain Berger v. City of Seattle

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