"The Social Network" and the Legal Environment of Business: An Opportunity for Student-Centered Learning

Autor/in	McGill, Shelley
Titel	"The Social Network" and the Legal Environment of Business: An Opportunity for Student-Centered Learning
Quelle	In: Journal of Legal Studies Education, 30 (2013) 1, S.45-97 (53 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0896-5811
DOI	10.1111/j.1744-1722.2013.01114.x
Schlagwörter	Business Administration Education; Law Related Education; Undergraduate Students; Films; College Instruction; Experiential Learning; Cognitive Development; Corporations; Web Sites; Course Organization; Course Content; Intellectual Property; Torts; Conflict Resolution; Ownership; Employment; Copyrights; Privacy; Assignments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Film; Hochschullehre; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Kognitive Entwicklung; Unternehmen; Web-Design; Course organisation; Kurskonzept; Kursprogramm; Geistiges Eigentum; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Eigentum; Dienstverhältnis; Privatsphäre; Assignment; Auftrag; Zuweisung
Abstract	Aaron Sorkin has a passion for words--his signature movie and television scripts are fast talking, jargon laced, word pictures that are instantly recognizable. "The Social Network," Sorkin's 2011 Academy Award Winning movie about the founding of Facebook, Inc., offers more than just witty banter; it provides an ideal teaching platform for undergraduate business law instructors. The movie's reach extends well beyond intellectual property law, presenting multiple business law and legal environment topics conveniently set in a student-friendly, reality-based, entrepreneurial context. The movie's story makes an ideal foundation for business law or legal environment courses. It can be a challenge to make a business school law course relevant and engaging for the young undergraduate student who is not pursuing legal studies. This article recommends teaching law to undergraduate business students through the lens of one current multidimensional business story already familiar to most undergraduate students: the founding and rise of Facebook. The story is dramatized in the movie "The Social Network" and Part II of this article provides a brief overview of the movie's plot. Part III reviews the pedagogical, experiential learning, and cognitive development theories that support the adoption of "The Social Network" as a course foundation. Part IV of the article describes how the movie and supplemental material can frame and contextualize typical business law and legal environment topics. The article concludes with lessons learned from the first attempt in Part IV and a discussion of exercises and assessments in the Appendices. (Contains 3 tables and 191 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10