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About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Preface
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Introduction to Law and Legal Systems
1.1
What Is Law?
1.2
Schools of Legal Thought
1.3
Basic Concepts and Categories of US Positive Law
1.4
Sources of Law and Their Priority
1.5
Legal and Political Systems of the World
1.6
A Sample Case
1.7
Summary and Exercises
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
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What Is Ethics?
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2.2
Major Ethical Perspectives
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2.3
An Ethical Decision Model
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2.4
Corporations and Corporate Governance
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Courts and the Legal Process
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3.1
The Relationship between State and Federal Court Systems in the United States
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3.2
The Problem of Jurisdiction
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3.3
Motions and Discovery
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3.4
The Pretrial and Trial Phase
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Judgment, Appeal, and Execution
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3.6
When Can Someone Bring a Lawsuit?
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3.7
Relations with Lawyers
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3.8
Alternative Means of Resolving Disputes
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3.9
Cases
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Constitutional Law and US Commerce
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4.1
Basic Aspects of the US Constitution
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4.2
The Commerce Clause
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4.3
Dormant Commerce Clause
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Preemption: The Supremacy Clause
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Business and the Bill of Rights
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Administrative Law
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Administrative Agencies: Their Structure and Powers
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Controlling Administrative Agencies
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The Administrative Procedure Act
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Administrative Burdens on Business Operations
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The Scope of Judicial Review
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Cases
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Criminal Law
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6.1
The Nature of Criminal Law
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Types of Crimes
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The Nature of a Criminal Act
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Responsibility
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Constitutional Rights of the Accused
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Introduction to Tort Law
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7.1
Purpose of Tort Laws
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Intentional Torts
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Negligence
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Strict Liability
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Cases
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Contracts
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8.1
General Perspectives on Contracts
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Contract Formation
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Remedies
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Consumer Credit Transactions
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9.1
Entering into a Credit Transaction
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Consumer Protection Laws and Debt Collection Practices
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Secured Transactions and Suretyship
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10.1
Introduction to Secured Transactions
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10.2
Priorities
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Rights of Creditor on Default and Disposition after Repossession
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Suretyship
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Cases
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Mortgages and Nonconsensual Liens
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11.1
Uses, History, and Creation of Mortgages
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Priority, Termination of the Mortgage, and Other Methods of Using Real Estate as Security
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Bankruptcy
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12.1
Introduction to Bankruptcy and Overview of the 2005 Bankruptcy Act
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Case Administration; Creditors’ Claims; Debtors’ Exemptions and Dischargeable Debts; Debtor’s Estate
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Chapter 7 Liquidation
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Chapter 11 and Chapter 13 Bankruptcies
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12.5
Alternatives to Bankruptcy
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Patents
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Trade Secrets
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The Nature and Regulation of Real Estate and the Environment
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Securities Regulation
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15.1
The Nature of Securities Regulation
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Liability under Securities Law
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Antitrust Law
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16.1
History and Basic Framework of Antitrust Laws in the United States
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Horizontal Restraints of Trade
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Vertical Restraints of Trade
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Price Discrimination: The Robinson-Patman Act
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Exemptions
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Sherman Act, Section 2: Concentrations of Market Power
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Unfair Trade Practices and the Federal Trade Commission
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The Federal Trade Commission: Powers and Law Governing Deceptive Acts
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Deceptive Acts and Practices
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Employment Law
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Federal Employment Discrimination Laws
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A Brief History of Labor Legislation
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International Law
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20.1
Introduction to International Law
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Sources and Practice of International Law
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Important Doctrines of Nation-State Judicial Decisions
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