Business Law Today: The Essentials / Edition 8

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BUSINESS LAW TODAY is a credible law text with high interest and features exceptional visual appeal. This is a book that professors like, while students appreciate its thorough, dynamic coverage of traditional business law topics and exploration of summarized cases. This text explicitly meets the AACSB curriculum requirements.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780324654547
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning
  • Publication date: 9/26/2007
  • Series: Thomson Advantage Bks.
  • Edition description: 8
  • Edition number: 8
  • Pages: 928
  • Product dimensions: 8.50 (w) x 9.90 (h) x 1.10 (d)

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Roger LeRoy Miller studied at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. He has been on the staff of a number of universities, including the University of Washington, Clemson University, and the University of Miami School of Law, where he taught, among other subjects, intellectual property and entertainment law. He has published in the Insurance Counsel Journal, Defense Research, California Trial Lawyers Journal, Antitrust Bulletin, Wisconsin Law Review, and Connecticut Law Review. He has authored or co-authored numerous textbooks, including BUSINESS LAW: TEXT & CASES--LEGAL, ETHICAL, GLOBAL, AND E-COMMERCE ENVIRONMENT, THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT: TEXT & CASES--ETHICAL, REGULATORY, GLOBAL, and E-COMMERCE ISSUES, BUSINESS LAW TODAY, AND THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT TODAY.

Dr. Jentz is the Herbert D. Kelleher Emeritus Centennial Professor in Business Law at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business. He received his B.A., M.B.A., and J.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Jentz has been past President of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, the Southwestern Federation of Administrative Disciplines, the Southern Business Law Association, Phi Kappa Phi (UT Chapter), and the Texas Association of College Teachers. He is the author or co-author of six monographs and fifty-six books and editions, including West's Business Law: Text & Cases, tenth edition (2006), West's Business Law Alternate Edition, tenth edition (2007), Fundamentals of Business Law, seventh edition (2007), and two versions of Business Law Today, seventh edition (2008), plus the Comprehensive Edition (2007). He has also published in learned journals and is past editor-in-chief of the American Business Law Journal. Dr. Jentz has given advanced purchasing seminars throughout the United States and previously taught over the years at five regional and graduate banking schools. Dr. Jentz is the recipient of sixteen teaching, academic, and service excellence awards, including the CBA Foundation Award for Excellence in Education, the CBA Foundation Advisory Council Distinguished Scholastic Contributions Award, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business Faculty Excellence Award, the Western States School of Banking Leadership Award, the James C. Scarboro Memorial Award for Outstanding Leadership in Banking Education, The University of Texas "Civitatis" Award, and the induction into the Texas Business School (McCombs School of Business) "CBA Hall of Fame."

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Table of Contents

UNIT ONE: THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS. 1. The Legal and International Environment. 2. Constitutional Law. 3. Courts and Procedures. 4. Torts. 5. Business Torts and Intellectual Property. 6. Criminal Law. 7. Cyberlaw in the Legal Environment. 8. Ethics and Social Responsibility. UNIT TWO: CONTRACTS. 9. Nature and Classification. 10. Agreement and Consideration. 11. Capacity and Legality. 12. Assent and Form. 13. Third Party Rights and Discharge. 14. Breach and Remedies. UNIT THREE: SALES AND LEASE CONTRACTS 15. The Formation of Sales and Lease Contracts. 16. Title and Risk of Loss. 17. Performance and Breach of Sales and Lease Contracts. 18. Warranties and Product Liability. UNIT FOUR: NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS. 19. Negotiability and Transferability. 20. Rights and Liabilities of Parties. 21. Checks and the Banking System. UNIT FIVE: DEBTOR-CREDITOR RELATIONSHIPS. 22. Secured Transactions. 23. Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy. UNIT SIX: BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS. 24. Agency Relationships in Business. 25. Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships. 26. Corporate Formation and Financing. 27. Corporate Directors, Officers, and Shareholders. 28. Corporate Merger, Consolidation, and Termination. 29. Investor Protection. 30. Limited Liability Companies aned Partnerships. 31. Special Business Forms and Private Franchises. UNIT SEVEN: GOVERNMENT REGULATION. 32. Antitrust Law. 33. Consumer and Environmental Law. 34. Labor and Employment Law. 35. Employment Discrimination. UNIT EIGHT: PROPERTY AND ITS PROTECTION. 36. Personal Property and Bailments. 37. Real Property. 38. Insurance, Wills, and Trusts. UNIT NINE: THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ENVIRONMENT. 39. International Lawin a Global Economy.
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