Dynamic business law /
Nancy Kubasek, Bowling Green State University; M. Neil Browne, Bowling Green State University; Lucien J. Dhooge, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology; Daniel J. Herron, Western Carolina University; Linda L. Barkacs, University of San Diego.
- Sixth edition.
- New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Education : 2023
- lvii, 1266, 13, 18, 10, 26, 46 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes index.
An introduction to dynamic business law -- Business ethics -- The U.S. legal system -- Alternative dispute resolution -- Constitutional principles -- International and comparative law -- Crime and the business community -- Tort law -- Negligence and strict liability -- Product liability -- Liability of accountants and other professionals -- Intellectual property -- Introduction to contracts -- Agreement -- Consideration -- Capacity and legality -- Legal assent -- Contracts in writing -- Third-party rights to contracts -- Discharge and remedies -- Introduction to sales and lease contracts -- Title, risk of loss, and insurable interest -- Performance and obligations under sales and leases -- Remedies for breach of sales and lease contracts -- Warranties -- Negotiable instruments : negotiability and transferability -- Negotiation, holder in due course, and defenses -- Liability, defenses, and discharge -- Checks and electronic fund transfers -- Secured transactions -- Other creditors' remedies and suretyship -- Bankruptcy and reorganization -- Agency formation and duties -- Liability to third parties and termination -- Forms of business organization -- Partnerships : nature, formation, and operation -- Partnerships : termination and limited partnerships -- Corporations : formation and financing -- Corporations : directors, officers, and shareholders -- Corporations : mergers, consolidations, terminations -- Corporations : securities and investor protection -- Employment and labor law -- Employment discrimination -- Administrative law -- Consumer law -- Environmental law -- Antitrust law -- The nature of property, personal property, and bailments -- Real property -- Landlord-tenant law -- Insurance law -- Wills and trusts.
"We are full of gratitude to the reviewers, adopters, and students who have stimulated us to create this fresh and improved 6th edition of Dynamic Business Law. Any book is a work in progress, and certainly this one is no exception. But with your assistance, we feel we have a much better book now. We have constructed a book that is both comprehensive and readable. But the features integrated into the chapters provide its distinctive worth. Each feature stands by itself as an aid to the kind of learning we hope to encourage. Yet the features are also a cohesive unit, contributing both to the liberal education of the students who use this book and to their skills as decision makers in a market economy"--