Contemporary Business Law, Global Edition

8. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-292-05935-8
Verlag: Pearson

Buch, Englisch, 844 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 276 mm, Gewicht: 2049 g

This motivating, up-to-date text presents business law, ethics, and the legal environment in a way that intrigues students, spurs them to ask questions, and takes them beyond rote memorization as they learn the issues and concepts. With its emphasis on covering online law and e-commerce as key parts of the legal environment—as well as today’s social, ethical, and international issues that are important to the study of business law—it’s the ideal text for your one- or two-semester undergraduate course in Business Law.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheeseman, Henry

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. 1. Legal Heritage and the Digital Age
2. 2. Constitutional Law for Business and E-Commerce
3. 3. Courts and Jurisdiction
4. 4. Judicial, Alternative, Administrative, and E-Dispute Resolution
5. 5. Intentional Torts and Negligence
6. 6. Criminal Law and Cyber Crimes
7. 7. Intellectual Property and Cyber Piracy
8. 8. Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business
9. 9. Nature of Traditional and E-Contracts
10. 10. Agreement and Consideration
11. 11. Capacity and Legality
12. 12. Genuineness of Assent and Statute of Frauds
13. 13. Third-Party Rights and Discharge
14. 14. Breach of Contract and Remedies
15. 15. Digital Law and E-Commerce
16. 16. Formation of Sales and Lease Contracts
17. 17. Title to Goods and Risk of Loss
18. 18. Remedies for Breach of Sales and Lease Contracts
19. 19. Warranties and Product Liability
20. 20. Creation and Transfer of Negotiable Instruments
21. 21. Holder in Due Course and Liability of Parties
22. 22. Banking System and Electronic Financial Transactions
23. 23. Credit, Real Property Financing, and Secured Transactions
24. 24. Bankruptcy and Reorganization
25. 25. Agency Law
26. 26. Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Partnerships
27. 27. Corporate Formation and Financing
28. 28. Corporate Governance and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
29. 29. Corporate Acquisitions and Multinational Corporations
30. 30. Limited Liability Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships
31. 31. Franchise and Special Forms of Business
32. 32. Investor Protection, E-Securities, and Wall Street Reform
33. 33. Antitrust Law and Unfair Trade Practices
34. 34. Consumer Safety and Environmental Protection
35. 35. Labor, Worker Protection, and Immigration Law
36. 36. Equal Opportunity in Employment
37. 37. Personal Property, Bailment, and Insurance
38. 38. Real Property, Landlord-Tenant Law, and Land Use Regulation
39. 39. Family Law, Wills, and Trusts
40. 40. Accountants Duties and Liability
41. 41. International and World Trade Law

Über Autor(innen)

About our author

Henry R. Cheeseman is professor emeritus of the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California.

Professor Cheeseman earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Marquette University, both a masters in business administration (MBA) and a masters in business taxation (MBT) from USC, a juris doctor (JD) degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, a master's degree with an emphasis on law and economics from the University of Chicago, and a master's in law (LLM) degree in financial institutions law from Boston University.

Professor Cheeseman was director of the Legal Studies in Business Program at USC. Professor Cheeseman taught business law, legal environment, and ethics courses in both the MBA and undergraduate programs of the Marshall School of Business of USC. At the MBA level, he developed and taught courses on corporate governance, securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy law. At the undergraduate level, he taught courses on business law, the legal environment of business, ethics, business organizations, cyber law, and intellectual property.

Professor Cheeseman received the Golden Apple Teaching Award on many occasions by being voted by the students as the best professor at the Marshall School of Business of USC. He was named a fellow of the Center for Excellence in Teaching at USC by the dean of the Marshall School of Business. The USC's Torch and Tassel Chapter of the Mortar Board, a national senior honor society, tapped Professor Cheeseman for recognition of his leadership, commitment and excellence in teaching.

Professor Cheeseman writes leading business law and legal environment textbooks that are published by Pearson Education, Inc. These include , , and .

Professor Cheeseman is an avid traveler and amateur photographer. All of the photographs that appear in this textbook (except the book cover photo) were taken by Professor Cheeseman.