Business Law and the Legal Environment is suitable for courses called Business Law, Business Law and the Legal Environment, The Legal Environment, Advanced Business Law or similar titles taught at the undergraduate or master’s level in business departments at two- and four-year colleges and universities. This book is appropriate for courses that are one- or several terms in length and can be easily customized to match any syllabus.
Business Law and the Legal Environment covers the entire range of legal and regulatory issues faced by businesses. The book includes illustrative cases in the court’s language for each topic area and case summaries in the Instructor’s Manual. Along with extensive coverage of traditional business law topics such as torts, contracts, bailments, commercial sales, secured transactions, agency, property, partnership, corporate law, wills, estates, and bankruptcy, the book also covers federal regulatory law (employment, antitrust, securities, and environmental law) and international law. Business Law and the Legal Environment provides students with the vocabulary and legal acumen required to communicate in an informed way with colleagues, customers, suppliers and government officials on legal matters relating to business.
New in This Version
- Thoroughly edited to break up longer sections into more manageable sections (e.g., Chapter 3 “The Courts and the Legal Processes”)
- Recent changes in both statutory and common law, including landmark cases such as the reversal of Roe v. Wade, impacts of new technologies on existing laws, LGBTQ+ employment discrimination, and the Black Lives Matter movement
- Updated with 22 new cases decided since 2016
- Cases have been moved to the end of each section in the relevant chapter
- Cases are fully indexed for the first time
- The single chapter on real property law is now divided into two chapters: Chapter 33 “Regulation of Real Estate” and Chapter 34 “Environmental Law”
- Extensive number of embedded video links for the first time (over 100)
- Updated or new graphs on topics such as the number of different types of business organizations (Section 41.1 and Section 43.4), the decline in union membership (Section 51.2), or the number of bankruptcy filings (Chapter 30)
- Dollar amounts stated in original cases are translated into today’s dollars to reflect their much more compelling current values
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Daniel Warner Western Washington University
Daniel Warner is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Washington, where—following military service—he also attended law school. After some years of civil practice, he joined the faculty at the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University in 1978 where he is now a professor of business legal studies in the Accounting Department. He has published extensively exploring the intersection of popular culture and the law, for which publications he has five times received the College of Business Dean's Research Award for "distinguished contributions in published research." He served eight years on the Whatcom County Council, two years as its Chair. He has served on the Faculty Senate, on various university and college committees including chairman of the University Master Plan Committee; he has been active in state Bar Association committee work and in local politics, where he has served on numerous boards and commissions over 30 years.
George Siedel University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Jethro K. Lieberman New York Law School
Jethro K. Lieberman is Martin Professor Emeritus at New York Law School, where for many years he served as dean for academic affairs. He taught in law schools for 33 years, at NYLS and at Fordham University School of Law. Before that, he was vice president at what is now the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) in New York. For nearly ten years, he was legal affairs editor of Business Week magazine. He practiced antitrust and trade regulation law at a large Washington law firm and was on active duty as a member of the Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps during the Vietnam era. He earned his BA in politics and economics from Yale University, his JD from Harvard Law School, and his PhD in political science from Columbia University. He is the author of The Litigious Society (Basic Books), winner of the American Bar Association’s top literary prize, the Silver Gavel. Among his many other books are Liberalism Undressed (Oxford University Press) and A Practical Companion to the Constitution: How the Supreme Court Has Ruled on Issues from Abortion to Zoning(University of California Press). He is a long-time letterpress printer and proprietor of The Press at James Pond, a private press, and owner of the historic Kelmscott-Goudy Press, an Albion handpress that was used to print the Kelmscott Press edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in the 1890s. For a complete bibliography, see www.jethrolieberman.com.