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Business Law: Text & Cases - The First Course, 16th Edition
Overview
Miller's "Business Law: Text and Cases, The First Course," 16th Edition helps students build a strong understanding of business law through a proven approach that combines rigorous legal content with accessible, undergraduate-focused instruction.
Using landmark and recent cases, the text teaches students how legal principles apply to real business decisions, while helping them develop critical-thinking and case analysis skills. Students receive a practical framework for ethical decision-making and gain experience evaluating legal and business issues from multiple perspectives. Updated coverage reflects today’s business environment and the latest developments in law. Paired with MindTap, Cengage's learning platform, students apply concepts through real-world scenarios, case analyses, and assignments designed to strengthen legal reasoning and decision-making skills.
- New features explore AI’s impact on business law and the role of government in shaping commerce, using timely examples to connect legal concepts to real-world issues.
- Chapters examine whether AI-generated false statements can create defamation liability, prompting students to examine emerging legal and ethical challenges.
- The text looks at how courts apply fair use to AI training on copyrighted content, helping students evaluate emerging issues in copyright law.
- New World of Work investigates AI’s transformative effect on employment in the insurance industry and its potential impact on the future of work.
- Compulsory Composting examines New York City’s composting mandate, helping students assess challenges businesses face when social responsibility is a legal requirement.
- Incorporates information on the core and discipline sections of the new CPA exam—addressing agency law, contracts, business structure and debtor-creditor relationships.
- Modern features, Issue Spotters and Task-Based Simulations, help students develop critical-thinking and legal reasoning skills with application-based activities.
- Accompanying MindTap provides a guided Learning Path, engaging students through activities and teaching them to apply and analyze today’s business law.
1. Law and Legal Reasoning.
2. Business and the Constitution.
3. Ethics in Business.
4. Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
5. Court Procedures.
Unit II: Torts and Crimes.
6. Tort Law.
7. Strict Liability and Product Liability.
8. Intellectual Property Rights.
9. Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy.
10. Criminal Law and Cyber Crime.
Unit III: Contracts and E-Contracts.
11. Nature and Terminology.
12. Agreement.
13. Consideration.
14. Capacity and Legality.
15. Mistakes, Fraud, and Voluntary Consent.
16. The Writing Requirement.
17. Third Party Rights.
18. Performance and Discharge.
19. Breach of Contract and Remedies.
Unit IV: Domestic and International Sales and Lease Contracts.
20. Sales and Lease Contracts.
21. Title, Risk, and Insurable Interest.
22. Performance and Breach of Sales and Lease Contracts.
23. Warranties.
24. International and Space Law.
Unit V: Negotiable Instruments.
25. Negotiable Instruments.
26. Transferability and Holder in Due Course.
27. Liability, Defenses, and Discharge.
28. Banking.
Unit VI: Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy.
29. Creditors’ Rights and Remedies.
30. Secured Transactions.
31. Bankruptcy Law.
Unit VII: Agency and Employment.
32. Agency Formation and Duties.
Appendices.
A: How to Brief Cases and Analyze Case Problems.
B: Answers to the Issue Spotters.
C: Sample Answers for Business Case Problems with Sample Answer.
Glossary.
Table of Cases.
Index.
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