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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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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
- Preface
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Law and Legal Systems
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Chapter 2: Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
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Chapter 3: Courts and the Legal Process
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Chapter 4: Constitutional Law and US Commerce
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Chapter 5: Administrative Law
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Chapter 6: Criminal Law
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Chapter 7: Introduction to Tort Law
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Chapter 8: Contracts
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Chapter 9: Products Liability
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Chapter 10: Consumer Credit Transactions
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Chapter 11: Secured Transactions and Suretyship
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Chapter 12: Mortgages and Nonconsensual Liens
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Chapter 13: Bankruptcy
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Chapter 14: Relationships between Principal and Agent
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Chapter 15: Liability of Principal and Agent; Termination of Agency
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Chapter 16: Employment Law
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Chapter 17: Labor-Management Relations
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Chapter 18: Partnerships: General Characteristics and Formation
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Chapter 19: Partnership Operation and Termination
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Chapter 20: Hybrid Business Forms
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Chapter 21: Corporation: General Characteristics and Formation
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Chapter 22: Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance
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Chapter 23: Corporate Powers and Management
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Chapter 24: Securities Regulation
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Chapter 25: Corporate Expansion, State and Federal Regulation of Foreign Corporations, and Corporate Dissolution
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Chapter 26: Antitrust Law
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Chapter 27: Unfair Trade Practices and the Federal Trade Commission
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Chapter 28: The Nature and Regulation of Real Estate and the Environment
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Chapter 29: Introduction to Property: Personal Property and Fixtures
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Chapter 30: Intellectual Property
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Chapter 31: The Transfer of Real Estate by Sale
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Chapter 32: Landlord and Tenant Law
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Chapter 33: International Law
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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.