Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business : Contemporary Perspectives in Business

by Cheeseman, Henry R.

• ISBN13: 9780130330260
• ISBN10: 0130330264
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For Legal Environment of Business courses. This best-selling text focuses on how the legal environment impacts business decisions. This text represents the single most up-to-date book available for the Legal Environment course. It fully integrates the AACSB curriculum standards throughout the text with extensive international, ethical and critical thinking examples. Cheeseman examines how the current legal environment, government regulation, and e-commerce environment impact today's business decisions. The cases are cutting edge, exciting, and engaging, and the reasoning of each case is presented in the language of the court.

Table of Contents

Unit I Domestic and International Legal Environment	1	(114)
Nature of Law and Critical Legal Thinking	1	(20)
Judicial and Alternative Dispute Resolution	21	(32)
Constitutional Authority to Regulate Business	53	(34)
International and Comparative Law	87	(28)
Unit II Legal and Ethical Environment	115	(114)
Intentional Torts, Negligence, and Strict Liability	115	(33)
Product Liability	148	(31)
Business Crimes and Criminal Law	179	(30)
Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business	209	(20)
Unit III Internet and E-Commerce Environment	229	(60)
Intellectual Property and Internet Law	229	(32)
Electronic Commerce and Domain Names	261	(28)
Unit IV Commercial Environment	289	(200)
Traditional and Internet Contracts	289	(36)
Contract Performance and International Trade	325	(32)
Enterpreneurship, Franchising, and Licensing	357	(28)
Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies	385	(32)
Domestic and Multinational Corporations	417	(38)
Negotiable Instruments and Bankruptcy	455	(34)
Unit V Employment Environment	489	(82)
Employment Law and Agency	489	(29)
Labor and Worker Protection Laws	518	(26)
Equal Opportunity in Employment	544	(27)
Unit VI Regulatory Environment	571	(138)
Administrative Law and Consumer Protection	571	(27)
Environmental Protection	598	(25)
Antitrust Law	623	(31)
Investor Protection and Securities Regulation	654	(29)
Property and Land Use Control	683	(26)
Case Appendix	709	(22)
Glossary	731	(21)
Case Index	752	(5)
Subject Index	757