Interesting, clear, and applied, BUSINESS LAW TODAY: THE ESSENTIALS is your concise guide to the law and what it means in the business world--from contracts and secured transactions to warranties and government regulations. Easy to understand with an engaging writing style that is matched by vibrant visuals, BUSINESS LAW TODAY includes coverage of contemporary topics that impact not only the business world, but your life such as identity theft. Fascinating features and intriguing cases highlight the material's practicality. The text's companion website includes resources to help you study, such as sample answers to the end-of-chapter case problem features; Internet exercises; and interactive quizzes for every chapter.
Table of Contents
1.
The Constitutional Foundations. 2. Ethics and Business Decision Making.
3. Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution. 4. Torts and Cyber Torts.
5. Intellectual Property and Internet Law. 6. Criminal Law and Cyber
Crime. 7. Agreement and Consideration in Contracts. 8. Capacity,
Legality, and Enforceability. 9. Contract Performance, Breach, and
Remedies. 10. Sales and Lease Contracts. 11. Performance and Breach in
Sales and Lease Contracts. 12. Warranties, Product Liability, and
Consumer Law. 13. Negotiable Instruments. 14. Checks and Banking in the
Digital Age. 15. Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy. 16. Mortgages and
Foreclosures after the Recession. 17. Agency. 18. Employment Law. 19.
The Entrepreneur's Options. 20. Corporations. 21. Investor Protection,
Insider Trading, and Corporate Governance. 22. Antitrust Law and
Promoting Competition. 23. Personal Property, Bailments, and Insurance.
24. Real Property and Environmental Law. 25. International Law in a
Global Economy.
