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1. What are the differences between torts and criminal law? There are many different types of crimes, but what are the different types of torts?
Consider the recent Las Vegas shooting incident. These facts give way to a crime and also to a tort. What crime is there? What tort is there?
2. What are some possible tort risks that arise in the business context? How can the risk management produce be used to mitigate business risk?
Text: Legal Environment of Business, Ch. 5: Constitutional Law for Business and E-Commerce
3. Describe the concept of federalism and the doctrine of separation of powers.
4. Define and apply the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
5. Explain the federal government's authority to regulate interstate commerce and foreign commerce.
6. Explain how the freedoms of speech, assembly, religion, and the press are protected by the First Amendment and how commercial speech may be limited.
7. Explain the doctrines of equal protection and due process.
Text: Legal Environment of Business, Ch. 6: Torts and Strict Liability
8. List and describe intentional torts against persons.
9. List and explain the elements necessary to prove negligence.
10. List and describe business-related torts.
11. Define the doctrine of strict liability.
12. Apply the doctrine of strict liability to product defects.