Teaching Legal Risk Management and Intellectual Property Law to Non-law Students: Benefits and Challenges

The merits of having a course on law in a business school cannot be underestimated. The goal of most students is to contribute to the commercial environment in some capacity. In this article, I illustrate how weaving together intellectual property law with contract law, competition law, data protection, and several other areas is imperative. This equips future managers and consul-tants with the wherewithal necessary to execute their jobs. Using the example of the course entitled ‘Legal Risk Management and Intellectual Property Law’ offered to graduate students, the impact on a generation of consultants in the creative industries is highlighted.
Following an autoethnography methodology, the paper first dwells on the aim of the course. This aim is raising legal risk analysts possessing a helicopter vision of different spheres of law, which assists them in dealing with complex emerging legal issues. Thereafter, the paper spells out how case-based teaching methodology is integrated into the course to provide experience of the real world. Next, a critical reflection is offered on the benefits and challenges experienced while teaching the course, which is legal to the core but is delivered to non-law students.