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Business Law: Text & Cases - The First Course, 15th Edition
Overview
The first to implement an undergraduate-oriented pedagogy with law school-like content, Miller's market-leading “Business Law Text and Cases- The First Course” 15e continues to set the standard for excellence. This abridged version of Millers “Business Law: Text and Cases” continues its legacy, providing accessible, engaging, and relevant coverage of business law with the perfect blend of cases (now in both summarized and excerpted format) illustrating "black letter" law and cutting-edge contemporary issues., making it a perfect fit for your one semester course. Throughout the text, the author emphasizes the role of ethics in law and provides a trusted framework for ethical decision-making. The accompanying MindTap challenges your students to apply their knowledge of the law to today’s real issues with critical thinking and case analysis assignments.
- More than 100 new examples and almost as many “Cases in Point” make concepts and terms more relatable to students through real-world application.
- Updated critical thinking features such as “Digital Update”, “Ethics Today”, and “Managerial Strategy” cover timely topics by exploring business law in a variety of contexts.
- Cybersecurity and the Law”, an all-new feature, explores what the law says about the cybersecurity issues businesses inevitably face.
- Revised and redesigned Exhibits and Concept Summaries utilize visual representations to provide clarity and emphasis the chapter's most important concepts
- Business Connection blog highlight today’s trending topics and ethical dilemmas in business law impacting businesses helping to increase relevance and engagement without adding to your workload.
- Updated “Cases in Point” and Highlighted Examples make concepts and terms more relatable to students through real-world application. This edition features more than 100 new examples and almost as many new Cases in Point, while many retained Cases in Point include additional citations to cases in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023
- The updated critical-thinking features -- Cybersecurity and the Law, Digital Update, Ethics Today, Managerial Strategy -- cover timely topics by exploring global, political, ethical, social, environmental, technological and cultural contexts of business law.
- COMPREHENSIVE END-OF-CHAPTER FEATURES HELP STUDENTS REVIEW AND APPLY CONCEPTS. At the conclusion of each chapter, varied and comprehensive review activities explore chapter concepts and challenge students to apply legal concepts and issues to everyday scenarios and real-life case problems.
- DIVERSITY OF CASES VARY FROM CLASSIC TO CONTEMPORARY CASES. In keeping with the book’s strong reputation for outstanding cases, this edition has added many new cases and case problems, most from 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, and continues to offer Classic Cases and Spotlight Cases. Cases are excerpted in the language of the court and are carefully edited to appeal to students while illustrating how courts interpret and apply the law.
- Incorporates information on both the core and discipline sections of the new CPA exam, specifically addressing agency law, contracts, business structure and debtor-creditor relationships.
- Modern features like “Issue Spotters” and “Task-Based Simulations” help students develop critical thinking and legal reasoning skills through application-based activities.
- Accompanying MindTap provides a personalized learning path guiding students through activities that engage and teach them to apply and analyze today's business law.
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- TERMS AND CONCEPTS ENSURE STUDENTS FULLY UNDERSTAND IMPORTANT LEGAL TERMS. This helpful list presents all of the chapter’s boldfaced key terms at a glance and shows the page number where each term can be found. A Glossary contains a newly revised set of clear definitions for each term in the text.
- “ISSUE SPOTTERS” FACILITATE STUDENT REVIEW AND RETENTION. These “Issue Spotters” draw special attention to each chapter’s key points of law or critical concepts. Sample answers to these features are available for students to check their work in Appendix D of the text.
- BUSINESS SCENARIOS GUIDE STUDENTS IN PRACTIAL APPLICATIONS OF CONCEPTS. These hypothetical, but realistic, business scenarios require students to identify relevant legal issues and apply them effectively within the scenario presented.
1. Law and Legal Reasoning.
2. Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
3. Court Procedures.
4. Business and the Constitution.
5. Business Ethics.
UNIT II: Torts and Crimes.
6. Tort Law.
7. Strict Liability and Product Liability.
8. Intellectual Property Rights.
9. Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy.
10. Criminal Law and Cyber Crime.
UNIT III: Contracts and E-Contracts.
11. Nature and Terminology.
12. Agreement in Traditional and E-Contracts.
13. Consideration.
14. Capacity and Legality.
15. Mistakes, Fraud, and Voluntary Consent.
16. The Writing Requirement in Our Digital World.
17. Third Party Rights.
18. Performance and Discharge.
19. Breach of Contract and Remedies.
UNIT IV: Domestic and International Sales and Lease Contracts.
20. The Formation of Sales and Lease Contracts.
21. Title, Risk, and Insurable Interest.
22. Performance and Breach of Sales and Lease Contracts.
23. Warranties.
24. International and Space Law.
UNITV: Agency and Employment.
25. Agency Formation and Duties.
26. Agency Liability and Termination.
27. Employment, Immigration, and Labor Law.
28. Employment Discrimination.
UNIT VI: Business Organizations.
29. Small Businesses and Franchises.
30. All Forms of Partnerships.
31. Limited Liability Companies and Special Business Forms.
32. Corporate Formation and Financing.
Appendices.
A: How to Brief Cases and Analyze Case Problems.
B: The Constitution of the United States.
C: The Uniform Commercial Code.
D: Answers to the Issue Spotters.
E: Sample Answers for Business Case Problems and Sample Answer.
Glossary.
Table of Cases.
Index.
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