The Legal Environment Today

Study more effectively and improve your performance at exam time with this comprehensive guide. Written to work hand-in hand with THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT TODAY: BUSINESS IN ITS ETHICAL REGULATORY, E-COMMERCE, AND GLOBAL SETTING, 7th Edition, this user-friendly guide includes a wide variety of learning tools to help you master the key concepts of the course.

Based on content required by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT TODAY: BUSINESS IN ITS ETHICAL, REGULATORY, E-COMMERCE, AND GLOBAL SETTING, 8e equips you with working knowledge of business-related laws while strengthening the critical reasoning skills you need to interpret and apply them. Coverage includes the latest on cyber law, social media, privacy, corporate responsibility, financial and credit card reforms, health-care laws, and much more. Using carefully selected cases, the text helps you identify and resolve legal issues you may encounter in the business world. Hypothetical situations and exercises, ethical discussions, and international considerations give you further insight into how business law applies to your everyday life and future career. In addition, exam preparation sections in the text and online access to interactive flash cards, quizzing, and other tools help maximize your course success.

THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT TODAY: BUSINESS IN ITS ETHICAL, REGULATORY, E-COMMERCE, AND GLOBAL SETTING, 6th EDITION offers the AACSB-recommended quality you demand, along with a real-world, hands-on learning experience that engages students in every chapter. Exceeding all expectations, this 6th Edition includes strong guidance in critical thinking and legal reasoning; current coverage of ethics, cyber law, and corporate responsibility; a diverse selection of the latest cases, including 2007 and 2008 decisions; and impressive coverage of the landmark cases that continue to steer today’s legal environment. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Based on the best-selling West's Business Law, this text maintains its most popular features and continues to offer flexibility for different teaching philosophies. While focusing on public law issues such as ethics, government regulation, and administrative law, it also provides a good balance of private law topics such as contracts and sales. Selected cases begin with either a "Historical and Social Setting" or a "Company Profile" and address the AACSB's curriculum requirements by focusing on global, political, ethical, social, environmental, technological, and cultural diversity issues.

The Legal Environment of Business and Online Commerce, 6eexamines how the current legal environment, government regulation, and e-commerce environment impact today's business decisions. Legal Heritage and the Information Age; Business Ethics and Social Responsibility; Court Systems and Administrative Law; Alternative, Judicial, and E-Dispute Resolution; Constitutional Law for Business and E-Commerce; Torts and Strict Liability; Criminal Law and Cyber Crimes; International and World Trade Law; Formation of Traditional and E-Contracts; Performance of Traditional and E-Contracts; Cyber Law and E-Commerce; Sales, Leases, and Warranties; Credit, Secured Transactions, and Bankruptcy; Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses; LLCs, LLPs, and Global Forms of Business; Corporations and Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Investor Protection and E-Securities Transactions; Agency Law; Equal Opportunity in Employment; Employment Compensation and Worker Protection Laws; Immigration and Labor Laws; Intellectual Property and Cyber Piracy; Antitrust Law and Unfair Trade Practices; Consumer Protection and Global Product Safety; Environmental Protection and Global Warming; Estates, Leaseholds, and Regulation of Property MARKET: For readers interested in a current and cutting-edge understanding of the legal environment of business and online commerce.

This popular text effectively combines a traditional case focus with clear and concise coverage of a wide range of up-to-date topics. Students are introduced to the impact of the law affecting business, while concentrating on information and applications essential to the business practitioner.

BUSINESS LAW AND THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT, 6E uses vivid examples and memorable scenarios to lead students through the full breadth of business law. Focusing on hands-on application and using a conversational writing style, this handy textbook equips students for business challenges from the first page. Plus, by showing students through practice how legal concepts apply to their future careers, BUSINESS LAW AND THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT, 6E draws students into the material, helping them study more effectively and diligently. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

With more than 200 real-world cases and critical-thinking exercises, FOUNDATIONS OF THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS, 3E helps readers define their ethical compass within the business world. Authored by a renowned scholar of business ethics, it uses an integrated approach to thoroughly explore the intersection of law, business strategy, and ethics. A concise legal environment text, it covers all core topics and features intriguing examples of legal and ethical issues pulled straight from the news and pop culture. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

This is the only textbook that helps students develop a thorough understanding of the legal environment of business and enhances their ability to engage in critical thinking and ethical analysis. The legal environment of business is thoroughly treated in an extremely reader-friendly manner; various topics include: the American legal system, dispute resolution, constitutional principles, cyberlaw, white-collar crime, contracts, sales, product and service liability, the law of property, agency law, labor-management relations, environmental law, securities trading and issuance, antitrust laws, and debtor-creditor relations. An excellent desk reference for the legal departments of any business, this book also provides an interesting read for anyone interested in business and ethics.

Current, succinct, and student-friendly, ESSENTIALS OF THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT, 5E delivers complete one-semester coverage of business law and its environment in a straightforward, nontechnical style. Cases are summarized by the authors and integrated throughout chapters. Miller explains legal issues and court decisions with minimal legal jargon while keeping readers engaged with the material. Hands-on applications help students strengthen their critical thinking skills as well as think through ethical dilemmas before they confront them in the workplace. The book also explores how traditional law has been applied to issues involving the Internet and how the laws of other nations deal with topics discussed in the text. In addition to Cases and Case Problems featuring issues from legal disputes in 2013 and 2014, the fifth edition includes an all-new chapter on Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy, new Managerial Strategy features, new Preventing Legal Disputes features, and more. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

The text takes a business oriented approach with an emphasis on business enterprise as it operates in the international business environment. It includes text and edited case summaries.

A less-expensive grayscale paperback version is available. Search for ISBN 9781680923018. Business Law I Essentials is a brief introductory textbook designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of courses on Business Law or the Legal Environment of Business. The concepts are presented in a streamlined manner, and cover the key concepts necessary to establish a strong foundation in the subject. The textbook follows a traditional approach to the study of business law. Each chapter contains learning objectives, explanatory narrative and concepts, references for further reading, and end-of-chapter questions. Business Law I Essentials may need to be supplemented with additional content, cases, or related materials, and is offered as a foundational resource that focuses on the baseline concepts, issues, and approaches.

Featuring succinct case summaries, THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT TODAY, SUMMARIZED CASE EDITION, 8E, equips students with the working knowledge of business-related laws recommended by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business while strengthening the reasoning skills they need to interpret and apply them. Using summarized cases from 2013 and 2014 legal decisions, the text challenges students to analyze and resolve legal issues facing today's businesses. Hypothetical situations and exercises, ethical discussions, and international considerations illustrate how business law applies to students' everyday lives and their future careers. In addition to an overall emphasis on how the digital landscape is affecting business law, the text covers the latest on corporate responsibility, financial and credit card reforms, health-care laws, and much more. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

This textbook emphasizes bridging the gap between understanding legal doctrines that impact the business environment and how business owners and managers use legal insight to limit liability and manage risk. Its distinct approach focuses on using teaching features, simulations, case studies, examples, and case law that is accessible and engaging because it is specifically tailored for business students.

Upon its publication in 1963, Corley's Legal Environment of Business was the first and only business law textbook to emphasize public rather than private law, government regulation of business rather than contracts, and legal relationships rather than business transactions. A major innovation, it established a new course that the authors termed the legal environment of business. Over the years others have attempted to attain the success and stature of The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business, but none has been able to match its timely, innovative coverage. Substantially updated, the 10th edition continues the text's reputation for ethics, authority and coverage of current areas of importance to business.