Legal Environment

Using an innovative storytelling style to bring cases and legal concepts to life, LEGAL ENVIRONMENT, 6E presents a full range of legal environment topics in a series of brief, quick-reading chapters. You see the relevance of legal issues to your own future career path with this book's unique emphasis on the business applications for each chapter's concepts. Expanded coverage highlights international law, employment discrimination and other legal topics of interest to you, including social media, technology, and cutting-edge intellectual property issues. Students who have used this book exclaim that it's the best textbook from their college experience, they don't want to stop reading and they had no idea business law could be so interesting. To further ensure your understanding, this new edition also offers access to MindTap, a fully online, highly personalized learning experience built on Cengage Learning content that addresses today's legal environment.

UNIT I: The Legal Environment. 1. Introduction to Law. 2. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. 3. Dispute Resolution. 4. Common Law, Statutory Law, and Administrative Law. 5. Constitutional Law. 6. Torts and Product Liability. 7. Cyberlaw and Privacy. 8. Crime. 9. International Law. UNIT II: Contracts and the UCC. 10. Introduction to Contracts. 11. Legality, Consent, and Writing. 12. Performance Discharge, and Remedies. 13. Practical Contracts. 14. The UCC: Sales and Secured Transactions. 15. Negotiable Instruments. 16. Bankruptcy. UNIT III: Agency and Employment Law. 17. Agency Law. 18. Employment and Labor Law. 19. Employment Discrimination. UNIT IV: Business Organizations. 20. Starting a Business: LLCs and Other Options. 21. Corporations. 22. Securities Regulation. UNIT V: Government Regulation and Property. 23. Antitrust. 24. Intellectual Property. 25. Property. 26. Consumer Protection. 27. Environmental Law.