Visually engaging, enticing and current examples with an overall focus on
business.
Business Law continues to be the most engaging text for students and
professors by featuring a visually appealing format with enticing and current examples
while maintaining its focus on business. Students will learn business law, ethics, and the
legal environment in a way that will encourage them to ask questions and go beyond basic
memorization.
This edition of Business Law includes over 40 new cases, an up-to-date photo program,
several new enticing discussion topics such as “Entrepreneurship: The Founding of
Facebook”, “Ethics: Animal Testing”, and Paul McCartney’s Divorce, brief and
easy-to-read chapters and cases, new on-line research activities, 25 new ABC news clips
and a revised testbank with 500 new questions.
Table of Contents
Unit I Legal Environment of Business and E-Commerce
Ch.1 Legal Heritage and the Information Age
Ch.2 Court Systems and Jurisdiction
Ch.3 Judicial, Alternative, and Online Dispute Resolution
Ch.4 Constitutional Law for Business and E-Commerce
Unit II Torts, Crimes, and Intellectual Property
Ch.5 Intentional Torts and Negligence
Ch.6 Strict Liability and Product Liability
Ch.7 Intellectual Property and Cyber Piracy
Ch.8 Criminal Law and Cyber Crimes
Unit III Contracts and E-Commerce
Ch.9 Nature of Traditional and E-Contracts
Ch.10 Agreement
Ch.11 Consideration and Promissory Estoppel
Ch.12 Capacity and Legality
Ch.13 Genuineness of Assent and Undue Influence
Ch.14 Statute of Frauds and Equitable Exceptions
Ch.15 Third-Party Rights and Discharge
Ch.16 Remedies for Breach of Traditional and E-Contracts
Ch.17 Internet Law and E-Commerce
Unit IV Domestic and International Sales and Lease Contracts
Ch.18 Formation of Sales and Lease Contracts
Ch.19 Title to Goods and Risk of Loss
Ch.20 Remedies for Breach of Sales and Lease Contracts
Ch.21 Sales and Lease Warranties
Unit V Negotiable Instruments and E-Money
Ch.22 Creation of Negotiable Instruments
Ch.23 Transferability and Holder in Due Course
Ch.24 Liability, Defenses, and Discharge
Ch.25 Checks, Banking System, and E-Money
Unit VI Credit, Secured Transactions, and Bankruptcy
Ch.26 Creditor’s and Debtor’s Rights
Ch.27 Secured Transactions and Electronic Filing
Ch.28 Bankruptcy and Reorganization
Unit VII Agency and Employment
Ch.29 Agency Formation and Termination
Ch.30 Liability of Principals, Agents, and Independent Contractors
Ch.31 Employment, Worker Protection, and Immigration Laws
Ch.32 Labor Law and Collective Bargaining
Ch.33 Equal Opportunity in Employment
Unit VIII Business Organizations and Ethics
Ch. 34 Small Businesses, Entrepreneurs and General Partnerships
Ch.35 Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Limited Partnerships
Ch.36 Corporate Formation and Financing
Ch.37 Corporate Governance and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Ch.38 Corporate Acquisitions and Multinational Corporations
Ch.39 Limited Liability Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships
Ch.40 Franchises and Special Forms of Business
Ch.41 Investor Protection and Online Securities Transactions
Ch.42 Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business
Unit IX Government Regulation
Ch. 43 Administrative Law and Regulatory Agencies
Ch.44 Consumer Protection and Product Safety
Ch.45 Environmental Protection and Global Warming
Ch.46 Antitrust Law and Unfair Trade Practices
Unit X Property
Ch.47 Personal Property and Bailment
Ch.48 Real Property
Ch.49 Landlord-Tenant Law and Land Use Regulation
Unit XI Special Topics
Ch.50 Insurance
Ch. 51 Accountant’s Liability
Ch.52 Wills, Trusts, and Elder Law
Ch.53 Family Law
Unit XII Global Environment
Ch.54 International Law and World Trade Law
Appendices
984 pages, Paperback
