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Business Law Today, Standard: Text & Summarized Cases, 14th Edition
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Miller’s “Business Law Today, Standard: Text & Summarized Cases,” 14th Edition, carries on the tradition, providing comprehensive coverage of today's laws, the legal environment and their impact on business. Classic, spotlighted and updated cases as recent as 2024 highlight the latest legal developments, ranging from the U.S. Supreme Court to state-level legislation. This latest edition includes over 40 new or revised learning features and more than 100 new examples and cases to engage students. Th text engages students with a visually compelling presentation and high-interest legal topics such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, managerial strategies and ethical dilemmas in familiar companies. MindTap helps your students master course concepts, challenging them to apply their understanding of concepts to real-world business scenarios.
- Over 75 new critical thinking questions have been added to the end of each box feature to help facilitate in-depth discussions about the most pressing issues in business law.
- More than 100 new examples and cases from well-known companies such as Nike, Apple, Snapchat and Dunkin’ help students visualize how business law principles work in everyday interactions.
- Updated learning features highlight high-interest legal topics from cybersecurity and artificial intelligence to managerial strategies and ethical dilemmas.
- This edition intertwines the role ethics plays in law, using the trusted ethical decision-making framework, IDDR approach.
- Modern features like Business Law Analysis and Managerial Strategy help students develop critical thinking and legal reasoning skills through application-based activities.
- Timely content uses an easy-to-understand context and format to demonstrate how ever-changing technological advances in the workplace and business world affect business law.
- Accompanying MindTap provides a personalized learning path, guiding students through engaging activities and teaching them to apply and analyze today's business law.
Unit I: THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS.
1. Law and Legal Reasoning.
Appendix to Chapter 1: Finding and Analyzing the Law.
2. Constitutional Law.
3. Ethics in Business.
Appendix to Chapter 3: Costco Code of Ethics.
4. Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
5. Tort Law.
6. Product Liability.
7. Intellectual Property Rights.
8. Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy.
9. Criminal Law and Cyber Crime.
Unit 1 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit II: CONTRACTS AND E-CONTRACTS.
10. Nature and Classification.
11. Agreement.
12. Consideration, Capacity, and Legality.
13. Defenses to Contract Enforceability.
14. Third Party Rights and Discharge.
15. Breach and Remedies.
Unit 2 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit III: COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS.
16. Sales and Lease Contracts.
Appendix to Chapter 16: An Example Contract for the International Sale of Coffee.
17. Performance and Breach of Sales and Lease Contracts.
18. Negotiable Instruments.
19. International and Space Law.
20. Banking in the Digital Age.
21. Security Interests and Creditors’ Rights.
22. Bankruptcy.
Unit 3 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit IV: AGENCY AND EMPLOYMENT LAW.
23. Agency Relationships in Business.
24. Employment, Immigration, and Labor Law.
25. Employment Discrimination.
Unit 4 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit V: BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS.
26. Sole Proprietorships and Franchises.
27. All Forms of Partnership.
28. Limited Liability Companies and Special Business Forms.
29. Corporations.
30. Investor Protection, Insider Trading, and Corporate Governance.
Unit 5 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit VI: GOVERNMENT REGULATION.
31. Antitrust Law and Promoting Competition.
32. Consumer and Environmental Law.
33. Liability of Accountants and Other Professionals.
Unit 6 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit VII: PROPERTY AND ITS PROTECTION.
34. Personal Property and Bailments.
35. Real Property and Landlord-Tenant Law.
36. Insurance, Wills, and Trusts.
Unit 7 Task-Based Simulation.
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 with Sample Answer.
Glossary.
Table of Cases.
Index.
1. Law and Legal Reasoning.
Appendix to Chapter 1: Finding and Analyzing the Law.
2. Constitutional Law.
3. Ethics in Business.
Appendix to Chapter 3: Costco Code of Ethics.
4. Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
5. Tort Law.
6. Product Liability.
7. Intellectual Property Rights.
8. Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy.
9. Criminal Law and Cyber Crime.
Unit 1 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit II: CONTRACTS AND E-CONTRACTS.
10. Nature and Classification.
11. Agreement.
12. Consideration, Capacity, and Legality.
13. Defenses to Contract Enforceability.
14. Third Party Rights and Discharge.
15. Breach and Remedies.
Unit 2 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit III: COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS.
16. Sales and Lease Contracts.
Appendix to Chapter 16: An Example Contract for the International Sale of Coffee.
17. Performance and Breach of Sales and Lease Contracts.
18. Negotiable Instruments.
19. International and Space Law.
20. Banking in the Digital Age.
21. Security Interests and Creditors’ Rights.
22. Bankruptcy.
Unit 3 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit IV: AGENCY AND EMPLOYMENT LAW.
23. Agency Relationships in Business.
24. Employment, Immigration, and Labor Law.
25. Employment Discrimination.
Unit 4 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit V: BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS.
26. Sole Proprietorships and Franchises.
27. All Forms of Partnership.
28. Limited Liability Companies and Special Business Forms.
29. Corporations.
30. Investor Protection, Insider Trading, and Corporate Governance.
Unit 5 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit VI: GOVERNMENT REGULATION.
31. Antitrust Law and Promoting Competition.
32. Consumer and Environmental Law.
33. Liability of Accountants and Other Professionals.
Unit 6 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit VII: PROPERTY AND ITS PROTECTION.
34. Personal Property and Bailments.
35. Real Property and Landlord-Tenant Law.
36. Insurance, Wills, and Trusts.
Unit 7 Task-Based Simulation.
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 with Sample Answer.
Glossary.
Table of Cases.
Index.
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