Dynamic business law / by Nancy K. Kubasek

Index

An introduction to dynamic business law -- Business ethics -- The U.S. legal system -- Alternative dispute resolution -- Constitutional principles -- International and comparative law -- Crime and the business community -- Tort law -- Negligence and strict liability -- Product liability -- Liability of accountants and other professionals -- Intellectual property -- Introduction to contracts -- Agreement -- Consideration -- Capacity and legality -- Legal assent -- Contracts in writing -- Third-party rights to contracts -- Discharge and remedies -- Introduction to sales and lease contracts -- Title, risk of loss, and insurable interest -- Performance and obligations under sales and leases -- Remedies for breach of sales and lease contracts -- Warranties -- Negotiable instruments : negotiability and transferability -- Negotiation, holder in due course, and defenses -- Liability, defenses, and discharge -- Checks and electronic fund transfers -- Secured transactions -- Other creditors' remedies and suretyship -- Bankruptcy and reorganization -- Agency formation and duties -- Liability to third parties and termination -- Forms of business organization -- Partnerships : nature, formation, and operation -- Partnerships : termination and limited partnerships -- Corporations : formation and financing -- Corporations : directors, officers, and shareholders -- Corporations : mergers, consolidations, terminations -- Corporations : securities and investor protection -- Employment and labor law -- Employment discrimination -- Administrative law -- Consumer law -- Environmental law -- Antitrust law -- The nature of property, personal property, and bailments -- Real property -- Landlord-tenant law -- Insurance law -- Wills and trusts.