Foundations of business law and the legal environment / Don Mayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayer, Don, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business--Textbooks.

Business.

Law--United States--Textbooks.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Saylor Foundation [2012]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Mayer, Warner, Siedel and Lieberman's Foundations of Business Law and the Legal Environment is an up-to-date textbook with comprehensive coverage of legal and regulatory issues for your introductory Legal Environment or Business Law course. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with which they are already familiar with their clear, concise and readable style. Business Law and the Legal Environment provides students with context and essential concepts across a broad range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy necessary for business people to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials — and to their own lawyers.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Law and Legal Systems

Chapter 2: Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics

Chapter 3: Courts and the Legal Process

Chapter 4: Constitutional Law and US Commerce

Chapter 5: Administrative Law

Chapter 6: Criminal Law

Chapter 7: Introduction to Tort Law

Chapter 8: Introduction to Contract Law

Chapter 9: The Agreement

Chapter 10: Real Assent

Chapter 11: Consideration

Chapter 12: Legality

Chapter 13: Form and Meaning

Chapter 14: Third-Party Rights

Chapter 15: Discharge of Obligations

Chapter 16: Remedies

Chapter 17: Products Liability

Chapter 18: Relationships between Principal and Agent

Chapter 19: Liability of Principal and Agent; Termination of Agency

Chapter 20: Partnerships: General Characteristics and Formation

Chapter 21: Partnership Operation and Termination

Chapter 22: Hybrid Business Forms

Chapter 23: Corporation: General Characteristics and Formation

Chapter 24: Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance

Chapter 25: Corporate Powers and Management

Chapter 26: Securities Regulation

Chapter 27: Corporate Expansion, State and Federal Regulation of Foreign Corporations, and Corporate Dissolution

Chapter 28: Antitrust Law

Chapter 29: Unfair Trade Practices and the Federal Trade Commission

Chapter 30: Employment Law

Chapter 31: Labor-Management Relations

Chapter 32: International Law

Notes:

Description based on online resource