Business Law / Edition 8

by Henry R. Cheeseman

Overview

Visually engaging, enticing and current examples with an overall focus on business.

Business Law continues to be the most engaging text for readers by featuring a visually appealing format with enticing and current examples while maintaining its focus on business. Readers will learn business law, ethics, and the legal environment in a way that will encourage them to ask questions and go beyond basic memorization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780132890410
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	02/01/2012
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	1056
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Henry R. Cheeseman is professor emeritus of the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California. Cheeseman earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Marquette University, both a master’s in business administration (MBA) and a master’s in business taxation (MBT) from USC, a juris doctor (JD) degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, a master’s degree with an emphasis on law and economics from the University of Chicago, and a master’s in law (LLM) degree in financial institutions law from Boston University.

Professor Cheeseman was director of the Legal Studies in Business Program at USC. He taught business law, legal environment, and ethics courses in both the MBA and the undergraduate programs of the Marshall School of Business of USC. At the MBA level, he developed and taught courses on corporate governance, securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy law. At the undergraduate level, he taught courses on business law, the legal environment of business, ethics, business organizations, cyber law, and intellectual property.

Cheeseman received the Golden Apple Teaching Award on many occasions by being voted by the students as the best professor at the Marshall School of Business of USC. He was named a fellow of the Center for Excellence in Teaching at USC by the dean of the Marshall School of Business. The USC’s Torch and Tassel Chapter of the Mortar Board, a national senior honor society, tapped Professor Cheeseman for recognition of his leadership, commitment, and excellence in teaching.

Cheeseman writes leading business law and legal environment textbooks that are published by Pearson Education, Inc. These include Business Law, Contemporary Business Law, and The Legal Environment of Business.

He is an avid traveler and amateur photographer. The interior photographs for this book were taken by him.

Table of Contents

Part I: Legal Environment of Business and E-Commerce
Chapter 1: Legal Heritage and the Digital Age
Chapter 2: Courts and Jurisdiction
Chapter 3: Judicial, Alternative, and E-Dispute Resolution
Chapter 4: Constitutional Law for Business and E-Commerce
Part II: Torts, Crimes, and Intellectual Property
Chapter 5: Intentional Torts and Negligence
Chapter 6: Product and Strict Liability
Chapter 7: Intellectual Property and Cyber Piracy
Chapter 8: Criminal Law and Cyber Crimes
Part III: Contracts and E-Commerce
Chapter 9: Nature of Traditional and E-Contracts
Chapter 10: Agreement
Chapter 11: Consideration and Promissory Estoppel
Chapter 12: Capacity and Legality
Chapter 13: Genuineness of Assent and Undue Influence
Chapter 14: Statute of Frauds and Equitable Exceptions
Chapter 15: Third-Party Rights and Discharge
Chapter 16: Remedies for Breach of Traditional and E-Contracts
Chapter 17: E-Commerce and Digital Law
Part IV: Sales and Lease Contracts
Chapter 18: Formation of Sales and Lease Contracts
Chapter 19: Title To Goods and Risk of Loss
Chapter 20: Remedies for Breach of Sales and Lease Contracts
Chapter 21: Warranties
Part V: Negotiable Instruments and E-Money
Chapter 22: Creation of Negotiable Instruments
Chapter 23: Holder in Due Course and Transferability
Chapter 24: Liability, Defenses, and Discharge
Chapter 25: Banks, E-Money, and Financial Reform
Part VI: Credit, Secured Transactions, and Bankruptcy
Chapter 26: Credit, Mortgages, and Debtor’s Rights
Chapter 27: Secured Transactions and E-Filing
Chapter 28: Bankruptcy and Reorganization
Part VII: Agency and Employment
Chapter 29: Agency Formation and Termination
Chapter 30: Liability of Principals, Agents, and Independent Contractors
Chapter 31: Employment, Worker Protection, and Immigration Law
Chapter 32: Labor Law and Collective Bargaining
Chapter 33: Equal Opportunity in Employment
Part VIII: Business Organizations, Investor Protection, and Ethics
Chapter 34: Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and General Partnerships
Chapter 35: Limited Partnerships and Special Partnerships
Chapter 36: Corporate Formation and Financing
Chapter 37: Corporate Governance and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Chapter 38: Corporate Acquisitions and Multinational Corporations
Chapter 39: Limited Liability Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships
Chapter 40: Franchises and Special Forms of Business
Chapter 41: Investor Protection, E-Securities, and Wall Street Reform
Chapter 42: Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business
Part IX: Government Regulation
Chapter 43: Administrative Law and Regulatory Agencies
Chapter 44: Consumer Protection and Product Safety
Chapter 45: Environmental Protection
Chapter 46: Antitrust Law and Unfair Trade Practices
Part X: Property and Insurance
Chapter 47: Personal Property and Bailment
Chapter 48: Real Property
Chapter 49: Landlord—Tenant Law and Land Use Regulation
Chapter 50: Insurance
Part XI: Accounting Profession
Chapter 51: Accountants’ Duties and Liability
Part XII: Personal Law
Chapter 52: Wills, Trusts, and Estates
Chapter 53: Family Law
Part XIII: Global Environment
Chapter 54: International and World Trade Law