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ERIC Number: EJ996144
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Mar
Pages: 53
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0896-5811
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"The Social Network" and the Legal Environment of Business: An Opportunity for Student-Centered Learning
McGill, Shelley
Journal of Legal Studies Education, v30 n1 p45-97 Mar 2013
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.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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