Business Law

Enterprise regulation is a joint sub-area of authorized research that engages each a strong information of the authorized system and an in depth understanding of the enterprise setting. Students are launched to the three principal forms of business organization (proprietorships, partnerships, corporations) including variations of those kinds resembling restricted partnerships, limited liability partnerships, professional companies in addition to distributing and non-distributing firms.

UVic Legislation’s Business Regulation Clinic course (LAW 349) offers college students a possibility to develop their authorized expertise and understand the lawyer’s position in facilitating enterprise transactions for shoppers, all within a scientific context.

Students examine chosen enterprise regulation matters together with the Sale of Items Act and client protection legislation, precedence of creditors and enforcement of secured and unsecured debt obligations, the regulation of personal and actual property including enforcement of mortgages along with bailment of personal property and landlord and tenant relationships.

Michael has enjoyed a various profession as a corporate lawyer and administration consultant together with time spent with a national agency in Vancouver, establishing a corporate/commercial legislation company in the interior of British Columbia and most recently founding a management consulting firm, Thinklab Consulting Inc.

Bankruptcy (supplied once per academic 12 months) emphasizes particular person debtors and covers the discharge of money owed, whereas Corporate Chapter (provided as soon as per educational year) focuses on enterprise reorganizations underneath Chapter 11 of the Chapter Code.