Law for Business

11 Rev ed
ISBN: 978-0-07-131457-2
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, 1056 Seiten, Format (B × H): 205 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1929 g

Business Law 11/e has provided students with a comprehensive, yet concise treatment of the legal issues of fundamental importance to business students and the business profession.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnes, A.James

Dworkin, Terry M.

Richards, Eric L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE Introduction to the Law
Chapter 1 Law, Legal Reasoning, and the Legal Profession
Chapter 2 Dispute Settlement
Chapter 3 Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Chapter 4 Business and the Constitution
Chapter 5 Crimes
Chapter 6 Intentional Torts
Chapter 7 Negligence and Strict Liability
Chapter 8 Licensing and Intellectual PropertyPART TWO Contracts
Chapter 9 The Nature and Origins of Contracts
Chapter 10 Creating a Contract: Offers
Chapter 11 Creating a Contract: Acceptances
Chapter 12 Consideration
Chapter 13 Capacity to Contract
Chapter 14 Voluntary Consent
Chapter 15 Illegality
Chapter 16 The Form and Meaning of Contracts
Chapter 17 Third Parties’ Contract Rights
Chapter 18 Performance and RemediesPART THREE Sales
Chapter 19 Formation and Terms of Sales Contracts
Chapter 20 Warranties and Product Liability
Chapter 21 Performance of Sales Contracts
Chapter 22 Remedies for Breach of Sales ContractsPART FOUR Agency and Employment
Chapter 23 The Agency Relationship—Creation, Duties, and Termination
Chapter 24 Liability of Principals and Agents to Third Parties
Chapter 25 Employment LawsPART FIVE Business Organizations
Chapter 26 Which Form of Business Organization?
Chapter 27 Partnerships
Chapter 28 Formation and Termination of Corporations
Chapter 29 Management of the Corporate Business
Chapter 30 Financing the Corporation and the Role of the Shareholders
Chapter 31 Securities Regulation
Chapter 32 Legal Liability of AccountantsPART SIX Property
Chapter 33 Personal Property and Bailments
Chapter 34 Real Property
Chapter 35 Landlord and Tenant
Chapter 36 Estates and Trusts
Chapter 37 InsurancePART SEVEN Commercial Paper
Chapter 38 Negotiable Instruments
Chapter 39 Negotiation and Holder in Due Course
Chapter 40 Liability of Parties
Chapter 41 Checks and Electronic Fund Transfers
PART EIGHT Credit Transactions
Chapter 42 Introduction to Security
Chapter 43 Security Interests in Personal Property
Chapter 44 BankruptcyPART NINE Government Regulation
Chapter 45 The Antitrust Laws
Chapter 46 Consumer Protection Laws
Chapter 47 Environmental Regulation
Appendix A The Constitution of the United States of America
Appendix B Glossary of Legal Terms and Definitions
Appendix C Spanish-English Equivalents for Important Legal Terms
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Barnes, A.James
A. James Barnes is Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs and Professor of Law at Indiana University, Bloomington (IU). He previously served as Dean of IUs School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and has taught business law at Indiana University and Georgetown University. His teaching interests include commercial law, environmental law, alternative dispute resolution, law and public policy, and ethics and the public official. He is the co-author of several leading books on business law. From 1985 to 1988, Professor Barnes served as the deputy administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
From 1983 to 1985 he was the EPA general counsel and in the early 1970s served as chief of staff to the first administrator of EPA. Professor Barnes also served as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice and as general counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. From 1975 to 1981, he had a commercial and environmental law practice with the firm of Beveridge and Diamond in Washington, D.C.
Professor Barnes is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and a fellow in the American College of Environmental Lawyers. He recently served as the chair of EPAs Environmental Finance Advisory Board, and as a member of the U.S. Department of Energys Environmental Management Advisory Board. From 1992 to 1998 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO). Professor Barnes received his B.A. from Michigan State University and a J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School.

Dworkin, Terry M.
The Jack R. Wentworth Emerita Professor, Business Law, Kelley School of Business, and Visiting Professor, Seattle University School of Law. Professor Dworkin previously served as Dean of the Office of Women's Affairs, Indiana University, and as President of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. She also served as the co-director of the I.U. Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and as the Director for the Program in European Studies at the Center for European Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Limburg in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Professor Dworkin's primary research interests focus on employment and women's issues, particularly discrimination, whistleblowing, privacy, and leadership. She is the author of number articles on employment law, corporate compliance, and product liability law, and of books on business law and whistleblowing. Several of her publications have an international focus. She has earned numerous awards for her research and teaching.

Professor Dworkin has significant international experience, including invited lectures on international ethics and management in various countries, teaching in Germany and The Netherlands, being a scholar at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies in England, and presenting a workshop at the UN/NGO Forum on Women in Beijing. In 2010, she was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Australia. She has also presented papers at a variety of international conferences.

Richards, Eric L.
Professor of Business Law and the Chair of East Asian Initiatives at Indiana Universitys Kelley School of Business. Prior to assuming his current role overseeing the Kelley Schools East Asian partnerships, Professor Richards served as Chair of Kelley Directs top-ranked online MBA and Masters Programs. He also has served as Resident Director for the Program in European Studies at the Center for European Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Limburg in Maastricht, The Netherlands, and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Graduate Business School, Zagreb, Croatia. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the National Institute for Development Administration School of Business, Bangkok, Thailand.

Professor Richards teaches a wide variety of law courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, including Personal Law, International Trade Law, The Legal Environment of Business, Commercial Law, and Business Ethics. His research efforts have resulted in scholarly publications exploring antitrust law, the First Amendment and campaign finance law, international trade law, and global environmental issues. His research publications have appeared in the top-ranked journals for the business law profession. He joined the faculty at the Kelley School in 1979, after spending two years teaching at the University of Kansas.

During his academic career, Professor Richards has been awarded numerous school, university, and national awards for both his teaching and his research. He also is a martial arts grand master who has taught martial arts for more than 45 years.

A. James Barnes, Indiana University
Terry M. Dworkin, Indiana University
Eric L. Richards, Indiana University