Managers and The Legal Environment Strategies

This comprehensive legal environment text takes a managerial focus with many business-oriented features that present cutting-edge issues and cases. To illustrate key legal concepts, this text utilizes both summarized and excerpted cases.

Table of Cases

xvii

Preface

xxviii

About the Author

xxxv

UNIT I Foundations of the Legal and Regulatory Environment

1

(192)

Ethics and the Law

2

(36)

Constitutional Bases for Business Regulation

38

(38)

Courts, Sources of Law, and Litigation

76

(41)

Alternative Dispute Resolution

117

(29)

Agency

146

(22)

Administrative Law

168

(25)

UNIT II The Legal Environment

193

(204)

Contracts

194

(43)

Sales and E-Commerce

237

(37)

Torts

274

(44)

Product Liability

318

(30)

Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw

348

(49)

UNIT III International Business

397

(56)

International Trade

398

(28)

International Transactions

426

(27)

UNIT IV Human Resources in the Legal and Regulatory Environment

453

(114)

The Employment Agreement

454

(40)

Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination

494

(45)

Labor--Management Relations

539

(28)

UNIT V The Regulatory Environment

567

(180)

Criminal Law

568

(36)

Environmental Law

604

(28)

Real Property and Land Use

632

(30)

Antitrust

662

(45)

Consumer Protection

707

(40)

UNIT VI Ownership and Control

747

(70)

Forms of Business Organizations

748

(32)

Directors, Officers, and Controlling Shareholders

780

(37)

UNIT VII Securities and Financial Transactions

817

Public and Private Offerings of Securities

818

(44)

Securities Fraud and Insider Trading

862

(42)

Debtor-Creditor Relations and Bankruptcy

904

Appendix A The Constitution of the United States of America

1

(7)

Appendix B The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act [Excerpts]

8

(1)

Appendix C Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [Excerpts]

9

(1)

Appendix D Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 [Excerpts]

10

(1)

Appendix E National Labor Relations Act [Excerpts]

11

(3)

Appendix F Sherman Antitrust Act [Excerpts]

14

(1)

Appendix G Clayton Act of 1914 [Excerpts]

14

(1)

Appendix H Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 [Excerpts]

15

(1)

Appendix I Robinson-Patman Act [Excerpts]

15

(1)

Appendix J Securities Act of 1933 [Excerpts]

16

(3)

Appendix K Securities Exchange Act of 1934 [Excerpts]

19

(1)

Appendix L Rule 10b-5, 10b5-1, and 10b-2 from Code of Federal Regulations

19

(1)

Appendix M Rule 14e-3 from Code of Federal Regulations

20

Glossary

1

(1)

Index

1

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Managers and The Legal Environment Strategies for the 21st Century

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