Business Law and Ethics Fall 2018 Title Catalog

BUSINESS LAW AND ETHICS TITLE CATALOG

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COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS LAW Michael Bootsma, Michael Thieme, Charles Damschen, Sophia Harvey, Craig Nierman

ÂŠ 2018 This text uses real life court cases combined with strong supporting material to educate readers about key legal principles in business law. Students are exposed to court procedures as well as alternative forms of dispute resolution. The textbook contains chapters devoted to tort law, constitutional law, criminal law, property law, employment law, bankruptcy law, environmental law, and more.

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ENTERTAINMENT LAW Fundamentals and Practice Corey Field

ÂŠ 2018

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This text is a comprehensive and unique guide covering every area of entertainment law including fundamental principles, detailed business models, legal foundations, contract terms, practical advice, and full legal citations for cases and statutes. It has the depth required for practicing lawyers and law students, while at the same time being readable, approachable, and a guidebook for anyone interested in how the entertainment industry works.

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THE TRANSACTIONAL DOCUMENT GUIDE A Supplement to Business Organizations: A Transactional Perspective Donald Scotten

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This text familiarizes students with the basic forms and documents used in the life cycle of a business and illustrates how the law is applied in practice. Organized into three primary sections covering corporations, general partnerships, and hybrid entities, the text includes complete examples of partnership agreements, articles of organization, certificates of merger and dissolution, proxy statements, and more – 34 documents in total.

EFFECTIVE NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN TODAY’S ENVIRONMENT A Reader Timothy Grainey

© 2018 The readings in this text provide students with theoretical approaches and practice suggestions they can use to foster successful negotiations and effective conflict resolution. Organized into four units, the text consistently emphasizes the importance of research and planning, as well the need for flexibility. This reader is well-suited to courses in persuasion, conflict resolution, negotiation, and international business.

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CONSUMER LITIGATION AND INSURANCE DEFENSE Willy E. Rice

This novel casebook for law students reveals the significant relationship between consumer law and insurance defense by presenting comprehensive analyses of state and federal consumerlaw and insurance-defense decisions. In doing so, it helps students understand why many consumers who file defective-trade-andproducts lawsuits may prevail in their case but never collect damages.

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SALES Problems and Materials Larry Bates

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This text provides students a basic understanding of sales of goods transactions and how Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code applies to such transactions. Built around a series of scenarios, the book connects real case studies and the author’s original material to the text of Article 2 and helps students learn to see the UCC as the primary source of commercial law.

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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE ART OF INTERNAL AUDIT Ahmed M. Abo-Hebeish

ÂŠ 2016

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This text provides a complete framework of the internal audit process. Readers will learn how to plan and prepare for an internal audit, how to conduct the initial interview, and how to successfully create and implement audit programs. It also explains how to perform the actual audit, including collecting and organizing evidence. The book pays particular attention to the behavior of the auditor and communicating successfully with the auditee.

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY David L. Hudson, Jr.

ÂŠ 2016

Filled with examples and stories from legal history, this text successfully brings professional rules to life while making them both accessible and comprehensible. The text provides comprehensive information on every aspect of practicing the law with professionalism and the highest of ethical standards. The text also addresses confidentiality, conflict, the duty to file in good faith, attorney advertising, and lawyer criticism of the judiciary.

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BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS LAW AND CONTEXT

Comprised of statutes, legal decisions, scholarly essays, and the primary source material of the legal profession, this text replaces stale textbook explanations with real-world, scholarly work. The book allows the texts to speak for themselves and challenges students to parse meaning, interpret content, and contextualize their learning.

MORE THAN ONE RIGHT ANSWER ETHICAL DILEMMAS FOR BUSINESS STUDENTS

This book makes use of ethical dilemmas confronting today’s college students to build the skills they need to confront professional ethical dilemmas in a business environment. It presents “College Situations” that prompt questioning and critical thinking, and then asks students to apply what they have learned to “Business Scenarios.”

This anthology teaches students the financial, legal, and economic principles of real estate, and addresses real estate’s inherently social/institutional nature. Covering all aspects of real estate, from its role in family relationships to the involvement of major financial institutions, the book is ideal for upper division finance courses in commercial or residential real estate.

This text allows students to explore and address complex tax problems in a safe learning environment. It provides opportunities to combine and integrate target concepts in order to solve complex, inter-related tax problems. The book concludes with a comprehensive tax return case.

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CREATING WEALTH

ETHICAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES

This text includes an introduction by the author, David Schmidtz, which gives readers a nontechnical overview of an ethical framework for evaluating both market behavior and market institutions. This is an ideal reader for classes in political philosophy, business ethics, ethics and economics, or contemporary moral problems.

CONTRACT LAW

PRACTICE, INTERPRETATION, AND ENFORCEMENT

This book teaches common-law principles regarding the formation, interpretation and enforcement of contracts and stand-alone promises. More specifically, the casebook discusses theories of recovery, and explains the practicable application of those theories in legal complaints and answers. It also covers Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

SECURED TRANSACTIONS PROBLEMS AND MATERIALS

This book is built around a series of problems that connect the cases and the original material back to the actual text of Article 9. The original material clarifies and contextualizes the legal issues, providing background and support as readers approach the cases. The problems emphasize the importance of reading statutes carefully and holistically.

This text focuses on fundamental principles of law, adding information on practical and theoretical perspectives and policy to the subject. Each chapter focuses on a scenario that highlights the practical and policy issues covered in the chapter. The inclusion of high-profile cases and issues makes the book interesting and appealing to both students and professors.

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This text combines both accounting and taxation within one book specific to commercial real estate. The accounting sections of the book give students a better understanding of the accounting process that ultimately produces the financial statements critical in buying and selling real estate.

This book is designed to give an inside understanding of the range of factors that come into play in entertainment industry transactions. The book examines major areas of entertainment industry endeavor such as books, film, music, television, and theater, while also looking at some of their other aspects, such as copyright, right of publicity, and negotiation.

EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT READINGS, CASES, AND MATERIALS

This is the text for providing human resource students a foundation of legal understanding as they prepare for their careers. For each specific topic, students examine statutes, cases, and leading interpretations of doctrine. The materials also allow students to critically analyze legal documents and principles.

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