The Legal Environment of Business

This popular text combines a traditional case focus with clear and concise coverage of a wide range of up-to-date topics. Cases are edited, with over 40% new to this edition. New JurisPrudence? feature highlights humorous or odd cases and legal events related to the subject at hand. Internet resources and citations have been incorporated; most chapters conclude with an optional Internet research assignment. New chapters include Alternative Dispute Resolution (Ch. 4); Property (Ch. 9); Debtor/Creditor Relations (Ch. 12); and Business Torts (Ch. 8). The case-holding section has been eliminated from each case, and the number of end-of-chapter case questions has been doubled.

Roger Meiners is the Goolsby Distinguished Professor in the College of Business at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches Legal Environment of Business.

Al Ringleb is Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for International Studies, University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business.

Frances L. Edwards is an associate professor of legal studies in the College of Business and Behavioral Studies at Clemson University.