SUNY OER Courses
SUNY OER Services offers template courses that can serve as starting points for your own development. You can mix, match, and adapt anything from the courses below quite easily.
These courses are delivered via the Lumen Learning platform, and can be integrated into your LMS (Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle) quite easily.
- Business Law
- Legal and Social Environment in Business
- Business and the Legal Environment
- Work Within the Law
- Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Economy – an Open SUNY Textbook
- Guidelines for Improving the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors of Nonprofit Organizations – an Open SUNY Textbook
Additional Offerings
Beyond what’s already hosted inside the SUNY OER Services platform, many OER collections contain useful material for Business Law courses. If you have suggestions of public domain or Creative Commons content to add here, please let us know.
| Title | Source | License | Notes |
| Intellectual Property: Law and the Information Society Cases and Materials | Duke Center for Public Domain | CC BY-NC-SA | Open intellectual property casebook |
| Oyez Project | IIR Chicago-Kent College of Law | CC BY-NC | Archive of Supreme Court cases and system |
| Outline of the U.S. Legal System | U.S. Department of State | Public domain | Overview of the U.S. legal system (somewhat outdated, but good for basics) |
| Docracy | Special license; see terms of service | Open collection of legal contracts | |
| Business Law and Ethics | Saylor | CC BY | Course in business law and ethics |
| Cautions About Business Agreements and Partnerships | JerrytheFixer | Standard YouTube license | Video on hazards of entering into agreements and contracts w/o legal advice |
| List of Supreme Court Cases | Wikipedia | CC BY-SA | Comprensive annotated list of SCOTUS cases |
| The Law of Mergers and Acquisitions | MIT Open Courseware | CC BY-NC-SA | Course provides introduction to law-sensitive aspects of M&A |
| Landmark Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court | Street Law Inc | Public domain | Landmark cases |
| 2014 Supreme Court Case Summaries and Teaching Materials | Street Law Inc | Public domain | Case summaries and teaching materials |
| SBA | U.S. Small Business Association | Public domain | Resource for articles that affect business |
| The Environments of the Organization | OpenStax | CC BY | Rubrics for exams and group projects in ethics |
| Work within the Law | Various | Various | Textbook |
If you’d like to utilize any of the above resources in your own classroom, you’re welcome to
- link directly to them in your learning management system (LMS)
- copy and paste these materials into any format you’d like (a page in your LMS or a Word document, etc.). Include the copyright information and attribute the source as needed
- print out materials and distribute them in your classroom. Include the copyright information and attribute the source as needed
- talk with SUNY OER Services about integrating them into your LMS
- talk with SUNY OER Services about collecting them in a bound, printed version to provide through your campus bookstore
The timeline for these last two options can vary, and will be discussed as part of your consultation with SUNY OER Services. Get started with consultation services here.
