Gain a clear understanding of business law and how it impacts today's business world with Miller’s “Business Law Today, Standard: Text & Summarized Cases,” 14th Edition. Engaging and relevant text ensures you understand important legal, ethical and corporate issues. This edition immerses you in legal action with classic, spotlighted and updated cases as recent as 2024, and over 100 new examples and cases from well-known companies such as Nike, Apple, Snapchat and Dunkin’. Over 40 new or updated learning features highlight high-interest legal topics like cybersecurity, AI, managerial strategies and ethical dilemmas. Visually compelling pages illustrate the latest legal developments across the globe, in the U.S. Supreme court and even at state level. MindTap digital resources are available to help you further explore how the law is applied to various real business situations.
Unit I: THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS.
1. Law and Legal Reasoning.
Appendix to Chapter 1: Finding and Analyzing the Law.
2. Constitutional Law.
3. Ethics in Business.
Appendix to Chapter 3: Costco Code of Ethics.
4. Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
5. Tort Law.
6. Product Liability.
7. Intellectual Property Rights.
8. Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy.
9. Criminal Law and Cyber Crime.
Unit 1 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit II: CONTRACTS AND E-CONTRACTS.
10. Nature and Classification.
11. Agreement.
12. Consideration, Capacity, and Legality.
13. Defenses to Contract Enforceability.
14. Third Party Rights and Discharge.
15. Breach and Remedies.
Unit 2 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit III: COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS.
16. Sales and Lease Contracts.
Appendix to Chapter 16: An Example Contract for the International Sale of Coffee.
17. Performance and Breach of Sales and Lease Contracts.
18. Negotiable Instruments.
19. International and Space Law.
20. Banking in the Digital Age.
21. Security Interests and Creditors’ Rights.
22. Bankruptcy.
Unit 3 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit IV: AGENCY AND EMPLOYMENT LAW.
23. Agency Relationships in Business.
24. Employment, Immigration, and Labor Law.
25. Employment Discrimination.
Unit 4 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit V: BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS.
26. Sole Proprietorships and Franchises.
27. All Forms of Partnership.
28. Limited Liability Companies and Special Business Forms.
29. Corporations.
30. Investor Protection, Insider Trading, and Corporate Governance.
Unit 5 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit VI: GOVERNMENT REGULATION.
31. Antitrust Law and Promoting Competition.
32. Consumer and Environmental Law.
33. Liability of Accountants and Other Professionals.
Unit 6 Task-Based Simulation.
Unit VII: PROPERTY AND ITS PROTECTION.
34. Personal Property and Bailments.
35. Real Property and Landlord-Tenant Law.
36. Insurance, Wills, and Trusts.
Unit 7 Task-Based Simulation.
APPENDICES.
A: How to Brief Cases and Analyze Case Problems.
B: The Constitution of the United States.
C: The Uniform Commercial Code.
D: Answers to the Issue Spotters.
E: Sample Answers for Business Case Problems with Sample Answer.
Glossary.
Table of Cases.
Index.
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Roger LeRoy Miller
Roger LeRoy Miller, Ph.D. has served on the faculty of several universities, including the University of Washington, Clemson University, and the University of Miami School of Law. As a professor, he has taught intellectual property law and entertainment law, among other subjects. A widely published and respected author, his work has appeared in the Insurance Counsel Journal, Defense Research, California Trial Lawyers Journal, Antitrust Bulletin, Wisconsin Law Review, and Connecticut Law Review. He has authored or co-authored numerous authoritative textbooks on law, including BUSINESS LAW: TEXT & CASES; BUSINESS LAW TODAY: TEXT & SUMMARIZED CASES; and THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT TODAY. Professor Miller completed his studies at the University of California at Berkeley and University of Chicago.
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Over 75 new critical thinking questions have been added to the end of each box feature to help facilitate in-depth discussions about the most pressing issues in business law.
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More than 100 new examples and cases from well-known companies such as Nike, Apple, Snapchat and Dunkin’ help students visualize how business law principles work in everyday interactions.
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Updated learning features highlight high-interest legal topics from cybersecurity and artificial intelligence to managerial strategies and ethical dilemmas.
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This edition intertwines the role ethics plays in law, using the trusted ethical decision-making framework, IDDR approach.
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Modern features like Business Law Analysis and Managerial Strategy help students develop critical thinking and legal reasoning skills through application-based activities.
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Timely content uses an easy-to-understand context and format to demonstrate how ever-changing technological advances in the workplace and business world affect business law.
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