The Legal Environment Today
By Roger LeRoy Miller, Frank B. Cross
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THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT TODAY: BUSINESS IN ITS ETHICAL, REGULATORY, E-COMMERCE, AND GLOBAL SETTING, 8th Edition equips students with the working knowledge of business-related laws recommended by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business while strengthening the reasoning skills they need to interpret and apply them. Using carefully selected cases, the text challenges students to analyze and resolve legal issues facing today's businesses. Hypothetical situations and exercises, ethical discussions, and international considerations illustrate how business law applies to students' everyday lives and their future careers. The Eighth Edition includes an overall emphasis on how the digital landscape is affecting business law as well as an all-new chapter on Law, Social Media, and Privacy. Chapters also cover the latest on corporate responsibility, financial and credit card reforms, health-care laws, and much more. Hands-on and student friendly, the text offers in-text exam preparation tools as well as online access to interactive flash cards, quizzing, and other study tools.
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THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT TODAY: BUSINESS IN ITS ETHICAL, REGULATORY, E-COMMERCE, AND GLOBAL SETTING, 8th Edition equips students with the working knowledge of business-related laws recommended by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business while strengthening the reasoning skills they need to interpret and apply them. Using carefully selected cases, the text challenges students to analyze and resolve legal issues facing today's businesses. Hypothetical situations and exercises, ethical discussions, and international considerations illustrate how business law applies to students' everyday lives and their future careers. The Eighth Edition includes an overall emphasis on how the digital landscape is affecting business law as well as an all-new chapter on Law, Social Media, and Privacy. Chapters also cover the latest on corporate responsibility, financial and credit card reforms, health-care laws, and much more. Hands-on and student friendly, the text offers in-text exam preparation tools as well as online access to interactive flash cards, quizzing, and other study tools.
Commonsense Organization: Enhance student comprehension with THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT TODAY's logically organized coverage of torts, strict liability, and product liability, as well as expansive material on health-care reform, Internet law, social media, and the digital landscape.
Insightful Prevention and Ethics Features: Each chapter includes a "Preventing Legal Disputes" feature that offers tips and tools to help students learn to avoid or mitigate legal problems in their future careers. In addition, case-based "A Question of Ethics" and "Insight into Ethics" sections help students navigate ethical issues from multiple perspectives and offer examples of thoughtful, open-ended solutions.
AACSB-Approved Coverage: Meet all of the specific curriculum requirements outlined by the AACSB with the "Dimensions" questions following each case. These intriguing questions help students see the global, ethical, e-commerce, and environmental considerations of each legal issue for a well-rounded perspective of business law.
Critical-Thinking Skills Development: Practical in-text features give students hands-on experience applying their knowledge to real-world scenarios--including "What If the Facts Were Different", "Management Perspectives", "Landmark in the Legal Environment", and "For Critical Analysis". Other sections--such as "Landmark in the Law" and "Application to Today's Environment"--enhance student decision-making by showing the impact of landmark cases and statutes on the legal environment.
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