As the vice president of finance for a company producing and selling electronic switchboards, you are considering a foreign investment to build a plant to assemble electronic components. A source in China advises you that a town near Shenzhen may be an excellent location for a new plant. Chinese are well educated and willing to work for reasonable wages. Projected construction costs are acceptable. Both rail lines and airports are nearby, and the current Chinese government seems politically stable. The town even has a technical college that will be an excellent source for skilled employees. The plant will ship most of the finished electronic components back to the United States.

Do you know everything you need to make an investment decision?

If not, what else do you need to know about investment in foreign countries?

What does it mean to say that law is the foundation of the private enterprise system?

Three years ago the Darden Corporation bought a thousand acres of land that borders the Potowac River in Washam County. While waiting on development opportunities, Darden cut timber to help repay the mortgage loan it took out to buy the land. On March 2, the Washam County Commission proposed an ordinance to establish a 250-foot-wide greenway along the south side of the Potowac that will effectively ban both development and timbering on nearly 80 acres of Dardens land. The same day in an unrelated accident a Darden truck ran over a hunter who was hunting without permission on the companys land. Darden immediately contacted an attorney in Washam City.

What is the law?

What does it mean to say that Darden has property in the land? That the hunter has property in himself?

What sources of law will the attorney have to understand in order to advise Darden about the proposed greenway?

The companys potential responsibility to the hunter?