Business law : legal environment, online commerce, business ethics, and international issues
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J.:
Pearson Prentice Hall,
2010.
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| Edition: | 7th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Legal heritage and critical legal thinking
- Court systems and jurisdiction
- Litigation and alternative dispute resolution
- Constitutional law for business and online commerce
- Torts and cyber privacy
- Strict liability and product liability
- Intellectual property and internet law
- Business and online crimes
- Nature of traditional and online contracts
- Agreement
- Consideration and equity
- Capacity and legality
- Genuineness of assent
- Writing and formality
- Third-party rights and discharge
- Remedies for breach of traditional and online contracts
- E-contracts and licensing
- Formation of sales and lease contracts
- Performance of sales and lease contracts
- Remedies for breach of sales and lease contracts
- Sales and lease warranties
- Creation of negotiable instruments
- Transferability and holder in due course
- Liability, defenses, and discharge
- Checks, banking, and wire transfers
- Credit and security interests in real property
- Secured transactions and security interests in personal property
- Bankruptcy and the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
- Agency formation and termination
- Liability of principals and agents
- Employment and worker protection laws
- Labor law
- Equal opportunity in employment
- Entrepreneurship, sole proprietorships, and general partnerships
- Limited partnerships
- Domestic and multinational corporations
- Corporate directors, officers, and shareholders
- Corporate mergers, tender offers, and shareholder resolutions
- Limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships
- Franchises and special forms of business
- Investor protection and online securities transactions
- Ethics and social responsibility of business
- Administrative law
- Consumer protection
- Environmental protection
- Antitrust law
- Personal property and bailment
- Real property
- Landlord-tenant relationship and land use regulation
- Insurance
- Liability of accountants
- Wills, trusts, and living wills
- Family law
- International and world trade law