It's Not Easy Being Green: Bringing Real Life to the Undergraduate Legal Environment of Business Classroom

摘要

The new trend is to buy organic items and have a sustainable business. Utilizing this company and its legal hurdles will engage the students with a current and interesting business model and help them better understand the application of legal principles to real-world situations. Student evaluations have indicated that they have enjoyed the utilization of this case to discuss many of the legal concepts in class. The instructor of a Legal Environment of Business course can use the facts of this case to further generate discussion in other areas studied in class with "what if TerraCycle did this?" Active learning with a real business example is likely to be more effective in teaching the legal concepts and making them memorable for the students.