Law as Part of Managerial Skills Reform Proposals for Teaching Law to Business Administration and Economics Students
| Author | Alexander J. Wulf |
| Published date | 01 July 2016 |
| Date | 01 July 2016 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/2322005816640323 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Article
Law as Part of Managerial Skills
Reform Proposals for Teaching Law
to Business Administration and
Economics Students
Alexander J. Wulf1
Abstract
Law is firmly established as an integral and independent component of most business and economics
degree courses. The objective of this article is to examine the contents and teaching methods gener-
ally employed in the law courses required for degrees in business and economics. As a rule, both the
contents and the teaching methods are adopted from degree courses for law students. However, to
date there has been little discussion as to whether teaching procedures that have been developed for
law students are also suitable for business and economics students. The article shows what problems
can arise if course contents and teaching methods are adopted without reflection and without adapting
them to the needs of the target group. This overview is then taken as a basis for a proposal as to how
the content of law courses can be taught in a practice-oriented way, adapting and further developing the
curricula that have proved suitable for law students to the needs of students of business and economics.
The use of presentations of the legal life cycle of business organizations and discussions of management
case studies on legal problems as didactic models are introduced, and practical teaching issues are
discussed. The aim is to raise students’ awareness of the legal problems that are important in running a
company and to teach them skills that they can later use to deal with problems in their daily work.
Introduction: Teaching and Learning Law in
Business Administration Degree Courses
Neither in law nor in business administration or economics much attention is paid to how law is taught
to and learned by business administration and economics students. This is regretful, since the number of
1 SRH Hochschule Berlin and Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Berlin, Germany.
Asian Journal of Legal Education
3(2) 129–143
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Corresponding author:
Alexander J. Wulf, SRH Hochschule Berlin and Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Ernst-
Reuter-Platz 10, 10587 Berlin, Germany.
E-mail: alexander.wulf@srh-hochschule-berlin.de
Acknowledgments: This is a revised and translated version of an article also published in German in the
Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Rechtswissenschaft. I would like to thank Dr Denis Basak, Professor Dr Victoria Büsch,
Professor Dr h.c. mult. Peter Eichhorn, Professor Dr Florian Faust, Professor Dr Karl Riesenhuber and Professor
Dr Stefan Voigt for their valuable comments and suggestions. I am responsible for any remaining shortcomings.
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