Business Law & The Legal Environment of Business
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Copyright: 2025
Pages: 2079
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UNIT ONE: THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS
Chapter 1: Law and the Legal Environment
Chapter 2: Business and the Constitution.
Chapter 3: Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Chapter 4: Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Chapter 5: Court Procedures
UNIT TWO: TORTS, CRIMES, INTERNET LAW, AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Chapter 6: Tort Law and Business
Chapter 7: Strict Liability, Product Liability, and Strict Product Liability
Chapter 8: Criminal Law, Cybercrime, and Businesses
Chapter 9: Internet Law, Social Media, and Privacy
UNIT THREE: PROPERTY LAW, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, LAND USE, AND ESTATES
Chapter 10: Personal Property and Bailments
Chapter 11: Intellectual Property Rights
Chapter 12: Real Property
Chapter 13: Decedents, Wills, Estates, and Trusts
Chapter 14: Leases and Landlord–Tenant Law
Chapter 15: Zoning, Land Use Controls, and Environmental Regulation
UNIT FOUR: CONTRACTS AND ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS
Chapter 16: Contract Law: Elements, Classes, Interpretation, and e-Contracting
Chapter 17: Contract Formation: Agreement in Traditional and Electronic Transactions and the Writing Requirement
Chapter 18: The Consideration Requirement in Contract Law
Chapter 19: Contractual Capacity and Genuine Assent
Chapter 20: Legality and Public Policy
Chapter 21: Contract Performance: Discharge, Breach, and Remedies
UNIT FIVE: DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL SALES, LEASES OF GOODS AND TRADE
Chapter 22: Formation of Sale and Lease Contracts
Chapter 23: Title, Risk of Loss, and Insurable Interest
Chapter 24: Obligations, Performance, Warranties, and Breach of Sale and Lease Contracts
Chapter 25: Remedies for Breach of Sale and Lease Contracts
Chapter 26: The Legal Environment of International Trade
UNIT SIX:
Chapter 27: Negotiable Instruments, Transferability, and Holder in Due Course
Chapter 28: Negotiable Instruments: Liability, Defenses, and Discharge
Chapter 29: Secured Transactions
Chapter 30: Banking, Electronic Fund Transfers, and Digital Currency
UNIT SEVEN: AGENCY AND EMPLOYMENT
Chapter 31: The Agency Relationship: Formation, Rights, Duties, Liability, and Termination
Chapter 32: Regulation of Employment, Labor Law, Employment Benefits, and Income Protections
Chapter 33: Equal Employment Opportunity Law
UNIT EIGHT: BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 34: Types of Business Organizations
Chapter 35: Forms of Partnership
Chapter 36: Limited Liability Companies
Chapter 37: Corporation Formation, Management, Liability, Taxes, and Termination
Chapter 38: Corporate Management and Governance: Shareholders, Directors, Officers, Agents, and Employees
UNIT NINE: GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF BUSINESS
Chapter 39: Administrative Agencies: Structure, Powers, and Accountability
Chapter 40: Environmental Regulations and Business
Chapter 41: Antitrust Law and Competition
Chapter 42: Securities Regulation
Chapter 43: Debtor–Creditor Relations
Chapter 44: Consumer Law and Protection
Chapter 45: Bankruptcy Law
Chapter 46: Insurance Law
Dr. Carson Clements joined the Monmouth University faculty in 2023. Dr. Clements earned his B.A in Political Science at the State University of New York at Brockport (1992), M.A in History at the State University of New York at Brockport (1995), Jur. Dr. in law from Syracuse University College of Law (2002), and Ph.D. in History/International Relations from Miami University (2004).
Dr. Clements’ areas of teaching and research specialization are in private international law, comparative law, international business transactions, the legal environment of business, international commercial and sales law, international commercial arbitration, business law, business associations and corporations, international trade and regulation, and the law of obligations. Dr. Clements has considerable practical experience in international arbitration, commercial and sales law, negotiating and drafting, transactional work, technology transfers, and licensing agreements, as well as an extensive background in European studies, Trans-Atlantic security structures, and international organizations.