Overview
Main description
Overview: Law for Business has provided students with a comprehensive, yet concise treatment of the legal issues of fundamental importance to business students and the business profession. The cases, which have always been a strong feature, are edited and re-written by the authors, who divide the material into three categories: facts, issues, decisions. The authors, Barnes, Dworkin, and Richards, choose cases that are appropriate to explain precedent and history as well as include “hot topic” cases that relate to current events. In addition to case applications, the authors use such techniques as content summaries to apply concepts to practice. Effective managers and employees must develop knowledge of both law and business because people involved in business also are involved in, and greatly affected by, the laws concerning business.
Table of contents
PART ONE Introduction to the Law1 Law, Legal Reasoning, and the Legal Profession2 Dispute Settlement3 Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility4 Business and the Constitution5 Crimes6 Intentional Torts7 Negligence and Strict Liability8 Licensing and Intellectual PropertyPART TWO Contracts9 The Nature and Origins of Contracts10 Creating a Contract: Offers11 Creating a Contract: Acceptances12 Consideration13 Capacity to Contract14 Voluntary Consent15 Illegality16 The Form and Meaning of Contracts17 Third Parties’ Contract Rights18 Performance and RemediesPART THREE Sales19 Formation and Terms of Sales Contracts20 Warranties and Product Liability21 Performance of Sales Contracts22 Remedies for Breach of Sales ContractsPART FOUR Agency and Employment23 The Agency Relationship—Creation, Duties, and Termination24 Liability of Principals and Agents to Third Parties25 Employment LawsPART FIVE Business Organizations26 Which Form of Business Organization?27 Partnerships28 Formation and Termination of Corporations29 Management of the Corporate Business30 Financing the Corporation and the Role of the Shareholders31 Securities Regulation32 Legal Liability of AccountantsPART SIX Property33 Personal Property and Bailments34 Real Property35 Landlord and Tenant36 Estates and Trusts37 InsurancePART SEVEN Commercial Paper38 Negotiable Instruments39 Negotiation and Holder in Due Course40 Liability of Parties41 Checks and Electronic Fund TransfersPART EIGHT Credit Transactions42 Introduction to Security43 Security Interests in Personal Property44 BankruptcyPART NINE Government Regulation45 The Antitrust Laws46 Consumer Protection Laws47 Environmental RegulationAPPENDIXESA The Constitution of the United States of AmericaB Glossary of Legal Terms and DefinitionsC Spanish-English Equivalents for Important Legal Terms
