LEGAL ASPECTS IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT. (DMSCML-04) Credit Hours: 30 Introduction: The entire course will introduce the students with various legal aspects of supply chain management, Course Objectives: + To study the importance of Indian contract act, rights and duties involved in shipping and maritime Law + To impart the knowledge on Indian sale of goods act + To create the knowledge of legal perspective and its practices to improve the business in shipping and maritime. UNIT-I: Sources of Law, Contract, Formation, Unenforceable Contracts, Contract Performance, Warranties and Product, Liability Remedies, Law of Ageney, Other Laws Affecting Purchasing, UNIT-IL Contracts for Goods, Employment, Consulting & Other Service Agreements, Software Contracts, Design Professionals-Architects and Engineers, Construction Contracts, Confidemtiality’Non—Diselosure Agreements UNIT-II: Basic Contract Elements, Interpretation of Contract Language, Specific Terms and Conditions, Remedies. UNIT-IV: Sources of Mercantile law, Scope of Mercantile law, Competition Act 2002, FEMA Act 1999, The Environment Protection Act 1986, Competence to contract, Consent, Forum Selection Clause, Agreements in Restraint of Trade, Restraints of legal proceedings. Text Books: Ms ~andit and Shobha Pandit, Business Law, HPH, Mumbai, 2010. 1 2. N.D. Kapoor, Mercantile Law, Sultan Chand & Sons, New Delhi, 2010 3. M.C. Shukla, Mercantile Law, 8. Chand & Co., New Delhi, 2011 4. Relevant Bare Acts. Reference Books: 1, Vibe Ulfbeck, Alexandra Andhov, Katefina Mitkidis, ‘Law and Responsible Supply Chain Management: Contract and Tort Interplay and Overlap", Routledge, 2019 2. Hillary J. Shaw (Author), Julia J.A. Shaw (Author),’ Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Justice and the Global Food Supply Chain: Towards an Ethical Food Policy for Sustainable Supermarkets’, Routledge,2019 Page No. 83