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Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment
Alyssa Rose Martina, Metro Parent Publishing Group
Daniel Warner, Western Washington University
Don Mayer, University of Denver
George J. Siedel, University of Michigan
Jethro K. Lieberman, New York Law School

  • Mayer, Warner, Siedel and Lieberman's Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment is an up-to-date textbook with coverage of legal and regulatory issues that are more technical than the topics in the authors’ Foundations of Business Law and the Legal Environment.

Bankruptcy Law and Practice
Gregory Germain, Syracuse University College of Law

  • This is the first edition of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, a Casebook Designed to Train Lawyers for the Practice of Bankruptcy Law.

Business Law and the Legal Environment
Daniel M. Warner, Western Washington University
Don Mayer, University of Miami
George J. Siedel, University of Michigan Business School

  • This textbook provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal acumen necessary for businesspeople to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials—and to their own lawyers.

Introduction to Contracts, Sales and Product Liability
Daniel Warner, Western Washington University
Don Mayer, University of Denver
George J. Siedel, University of Michigan
Jethro K. Lieberman, New York Law School

  • This textbook provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal acumen necessary for busines people to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials—and to their own lawyers.

Introduction to the Law of Property, Estate Planning and Insurance
Daniel Warner, Western Washington University
Don Mayer, University of Denver
George J. Siedel, University of Michigan
Jethro K. Lieberman, New York Law School

  • Introduction to the Law of Property, Estate Planning and Insurance is an up-to-date textbook that covers legal issues that students must understand relating to real estate (an especially important business asset), as well as estate planning and insurance. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style.

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School

  • Civil procedure consists of the rules by which courts conduct civil trials. In the U.S., civil procedure usually takes the form of a series of rules and judicial practices. The federal courts follow the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Foundations of Business Law and Legal Environment
Don Mayer, University of Denver

  • Business Law and the Legal Environment provides students with context and essential concepts across a broad range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy necessary for business people to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials — and to their own lawyers.

Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business
Daniel Warner, Western Washington University
Don Mayer, University of Denver
George Siedel, University of Michigan
Jethro K. Lieberman, New York Law School

  • Mayer, Warner, Siedel and Lieberman's Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business is an up-to-date textbook that covers legal issues that students must understand in today’s highly regulated business environment.

United States Securities Law
Editorial Staff of eLangdell Press

  • The United States Securities Code and Regulations appear in Title 15 of the United States Code and Title 17 of the Code of Federal Regulations. This publication was made with data provided by the United States government on the Office of Law Revision Counsel as well as the eCFR.

The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
Lisa Johnson, University of Puget Sound
Terence Lau, University of Dayton

  • Terence Lau & Lisa Johnson’s The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business is a book for today’s student, who expects learning to be comprised not only of substance, but also of interactive exercises and multimedia. This book streamlines the presentation of material to ensure that every page is relevant, engaging, and interesting to undergraduate business students, without losing the depth of coverage that they need to be successful in their academic journeys and in their professional careers. This is not Legal Environment of Business (LEB) ”light.“ Rather, this is LEB without risk of students’ eyes glazing over in boredom or from lack of comprehension. This is LEB presented in an exciting way, where every page is interesting to students and relevant to real life.

Law for Entrepreneurs
Daniel Warner, Western Washington University
Don Mayer, University of Denver
George J. Siedel, University of Michigan
Jethro K. Lieberman, New York Law School

  • Law for Entrepreneurs is an up-to-date textbook that covers the broad spectrum of legal issues that entrepreneurs must understand when starting and running a business. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style.

Law of Commercial Transactions
Daniel Warner, Western Washington University
Don Mayer, University of Denver
George J. Siedel, University of Michigan
Jethro K. Lieberman, New York Law School

  • Law of Commercial Transactions is an up-to-date textbook that covers legal issues that students who engage in commercial transactions must understand. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style.

Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance
Daniel Warner, Western Washington University
Don Mayer, University of Denver
George J. Siedel, University of Michigan
Jethro K. Lieberman, New York Law School

  • Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance is an up-to-date textbook that covers key legal issues relating to corporate management and finance. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style.

Legal Aspects of Marketing and Sales
Daniel Warner, Western Washington University
Don Mayer, University of Denver
George J. Siedel, University of Michigan
Jethro K. Lieberman, New York Law School

  • Legal Aspects of Marketing and Sales is an up-to-date textbook that covers legal issues that students who will work in marketing or with marketing managers must understand. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style.

Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials
James Boyle, Duke Law School
Jennifer Jenkins, Duke Law School

  • This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights.

Ethics and Sustainability

The Sustainable Business Case Book
Matt Magnusson, University of New Hampshire
Ross Gittell, University of New Hampshire
Dr. Michael Merenda, Whittemore School of Business

  • The Sustainable Business Case Book by Gittell, Magnusson and Merenda is one of the first of its kind. It combines the the theory of sustainability with key concepts, analytical information and contextual information with a collection of cases which provide insights, perspective and practical guidance on how sustainable businesses operate from different business functional area perspectives.

Sustainability, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Dr Andrea Larson, University of Virginia

  • This book is suited for the Entrepreneurship or Innovation course with an emphasis on Sustainability or for a course devoted entirely to Sustainability.

Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation
Tom Theis, University of Illinois, Chicago
Jonathan Tomkin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • With “Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation”, first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowledge – including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by a recognized expert in the field.

Business Ethics
OpenStax College

  • Business Ethics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application scenarios, and links to video interviews with executives, all of which help instill in students a sense of ethical awareness and responsibility.

The Business Ethics Workshop
James Brusseau, Pace University

  • The Business Ethics Workshop provides a framework for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical dilemmas encountered through working life.

Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy
Elizabeth Pulos
Guillermo C. Jimenez

  • This textbook provides an innovative, internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics.

The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
Lisa Johnson, University of Puget Sound
Terence Lau, University of Dayton

  • Terence Lau & Lisa Johnson’s The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business is a book for today’s student, who expects learning to be comprised not only of substance, but also of interactive exercises and multimedia. This book streamlines the presentation of material to ensure that every page is relevant, engaging, and interesting to undergraduate business students, without losing the depth of coverage that they need to be successful in their academic journeys and in their professional careers. This is not Legal Environment of Business (LEB) ”light.“ Rather, this is LEB without risk of students’ eyes glazing over in boredom or from lack of comprehension. This is LEB presented in an exciting way, where every page is interesting to students and relevant to real life.