Business Law: Study Guide, 5th Edition - Softcover

Ramona Atkins; Henry R. Cheeseman

9780131460966: Business Law: Study Guide, 5th Edition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013146096X ISBN 13: 9780131460966

Publisher: Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2003

For one/two-semester courses in Business Law. Exceptionally comprehensive-and praised for its writing style and accessibility-this texts offers longer edited cases, with more of the actual language of the court renderings. It includes numerous business-oriented features that make the course relevant to future managers and integrates throughout ethics and social responsibility, international, contemporary business issues, and e-commerce in every morsel of the text.

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EXCITING NEW COVERAGE U. S. Supreme Court Cases-The fifth edition of Business Law features numerous new U. S. Supreme Court cases highlighting decisions from the most recent sessions of the Court that affect business, as well as the landmark decisions of the Court. The reasoning of the decisions is in the language of the court. Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business-Chapter 7, "Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business" has been updated to provide materials and cases covering the recent failure of corporate governance, and includes a discussion on corporate citizenship and the corporate social audit. Special new "Business Ethics" boxes added throughout the book include "Enron Corporation Plunges into Bankruptcy" and "General Motors Hit with Billion-Dollar Judgment." International Law-Chapter 8, "International and Comparative Law" provides updated coverage of China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the pending creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas. New "International Law" boxes added throughout the book include "Federal Antiterrorism Act of 2001" and the "International Criminal Court." Business Law Online Resource Center-A new online resource center provides professors and students with exciting hypothetical cases; real case summaries; an interactive historical timeline of statutes; and other online materials to develop important legal concepts and issues. Intellectual Property and Internet Law-Chapter 17, "Intellectual Property and Information Technology," and Chapter 18, "Internet Law, Domain Names, and E-Commerce," add coverage of the new Federal Electronic Signatures Act and the protection of Internet domain names. Special "E-Commerce & Information Technology" boxes added throughout the book elude Napster Unplugged by the Court" and "Wal-Mart Knocks Off Designer Clothes." Assignment Materials-At the end of each chapter, "Working the Web Internet Exercises" require students to work through interactive Web-based activities; "Critical Legal Thinking Cases" encourage the application of students' analytical skills; "Business Ethics Cases" require students to consider ethics in making business decisions; and "Briefing the Case Writing Assignments" gives students experience in briefing cases. Cheeseman's Business Law, Fifth Edition has the most comprehensive and modern coverage of business law, the legal environment, business ethics, international law, e-commerce, and Internet law available. Please take a look at the Table of Contents and the Preface to see the coverage of this new fifth edition.

TO THE STUDENTS

Each semester, as I stand up in front of a new group of business majors in my business law class I am struck by the thought that, cases and statutes aside, I know two very important things that they have yet to learn. The first is that I draw as much from them as they do from me. Their youth, enthusiasm, questions, and even the doubts a few of them hold about the relevance of law to their futures, fuel my teaching. They don't know that every time they open their minds to look at a point from a new perspective or critically question something they have taken for granted, I get a wonderful reward for the work that I do.

The other thing I know is that both teaching and learning the law are all about stories. The stories I tell provide the framework on which students will hang everything they learn about the law in my class. It is my hope that long after the facts about the specific language of the statutes have faded, they will retain that framework. Several years from now, "unintentional torts" may draw only a glimmer of recognition with business managers who learn about them as students in my class this year. However, they will likely recall the story of the woman who sued McDonalds for serving her coffee that was too hot and caused her injuries. The story sticks and gives students the hook on which to hang the concepts.

I remind myself of these two facts every time I sit down to work on writing and revising Business Law, as well. My goal is to present the law in a way that will spur students to ask questions, to go beyond rote memorization. Business law is an evolving outgrowth of its environment, and that environment keeps changing. In addition to the social, ethical, and international contexts I have incorporated in previous editions of Business Law, this fifth edition adds coverage and emphasis on the Internet and entrepreneurship as two vital catalysts to the law and a key part of its environment.

It is my wish that my commitment to these goals shines through in this labor of love, and I hope you have as much pleasure in using it as I have had in creating it for you.

Henry Cheeseman

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