- Published
- March 2019
- Page Count
- 620
- ISBN (Digital)
- 978-1-4533-8673-6
Essentials of the Legal Environment of Business
Version 2.0
By Don Mayer, Daniel Warner, George Siedel, and Jethro K. Lieberman
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- Cases are available in excerpted and summarized format, enabling instructors to easily “mix and match” excerpted cases with case summaries.
- Links to forms and uniform laws are embedded in the text.
- Sample legal forms available.
- Customizable.
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- $36.95
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This textbook is suitable for the following courses: Introductory Legal Environment of Business.
Essentials of the Legal Environment of Business is a briefer, more focused version of the authors’ comprehensive Business Law and the Legal Environment textbook.This textbook covers all the key topics of business law but has a lighter coverage of business contracts and omits the chapters on sales and leases, banking and commercial paper, wills and estates, insurance, and accountancy. It is organized into three main sections: An Introduction to Law (introducing students to the main concepts of the legal environment of business, Black-Letter Law (covering the business law fundamentals of tort, contract, property, agency, and business organization), and Government Regulation (dealing with various aspects of government regulation of business, including regulation for a social safety net).
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Preface
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Law and the Legal Process
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Chapter 2: Introduction to Business Ethics
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Chapter 3: Introduction to Constitutional Law and Commerce
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Chapter 4: Introduction to Law Making
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Chapter 5: Introduction to Courts and the Legal Process
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Chapter 6: Introduction to International Law
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Chapter 7: Tort Law
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Chapter 8: Contract Law
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Chapter 9: Property Law
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Chapter 10: Agency Law
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Chapter 11: Business Organization Law
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Chapter 12: Government Regulation: Environmental Law
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Chapter 13: Government Regulation: Employment Law
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Chapter 14: Government Regulation of the Market
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Chapter 15: Government Regulation: The Social Safety Net
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Additions & Errata
- Paragraph on taxation of limited partnership in Chapter 11.4 changed to: The main tax advantage of a limited partnership is that it is a flow-through entity — all profits and losses flow directly to the individual limited partners. Pass-through ("conduit") taxation is usually very important to investors.
- Section 14.4 added on Products Liability on 6/24/19.
- Link in Chapter 4.1, Case Questions, number 4 updated to https://youtu.be/Mh4HdtTlnjg on 10/08/21.