MASTER of SCIENCE in LUXURY GOODS AND SERVICES

Course Description

LXRY 643: The Luxury Legal Environment

Note: All courses carry three (3) credits unless otherwise stated.

This course presents the principal legal mechanisms used when working with luxury goods and services, and focuses on specific issues of law and the luxury industry.

The course begins by examining luxury business structures and liability of management, sales and transport contracts, unfair competition, licensing and selling of intellectual property - and intellectual property rights, and payment mechanisms and financing in a general way. Using examples, it then moves on to a focused treatment of topics such as specific intellectual and industrial property law, brand protection, international licensing, trademark law, negotiations and contracts, and franchising.

Students will master the relevant legal topics of international luxury transactions, and learn how to analyze the problems and methods of international law as it applies to the luxury industry clarify the interrelationship of international public and private law, and develop successful legally-based strategies for brand valuation and protection.