CONTENTS 1
Unit 1 Legal Environment of Business 1
Text Ⅰ Law in Business and Society 1
Text Ⅱ The Role of Business in Shaping the Legal Environment:Lobbying 10
Unit 2 Contract Law(Ⅰ) 19
Text Ⅰ Acceptance 19
Text Ⅱ Statute of Frauds 28
Unit 3 Contract Law(Ⅱ) 38
Text Ⅰ Performance 38
Text Ⅱ Remedies 48
Unit 4 Warranties and Product Liability 59
Text Ⅰ Warranties 59
Text Ⅱ Product Liability 68
Unit 5 Negotiable Instruments(Ⅰ) 77
Text Ⅰ Requirements for Negotiability 77
Text Ⅱ Types of Indorsement 85
Unit 6 Negotiable Instruments(Ⅱ) 93
Text Ⅰ Requirements for a Holder in Due Course 93
Text Ⅱ Rights of Holder in Due Course 101
Unit 7 Creditors'Rights and Liabilities 109
Text Ⅰ Laws Assisting Creditors 109
Text Ⅱ Lender Liability 119
Unit 8 Bankruptcy and Reorganization 128
Text Ⅰ Bankruptcy and Reorganization 128
Text Ⅱ Development of the Current Bankruptcy Statute 138
Unit 9 Personal Property and Bailments 148
Text Ⅰ Ownership of Personal Property 148
Text Ⅱ Nature and Creation of Bailments 159
Unit 10 Intellectual Property and Real Property 168
Text Ⅰ Computers and Intellectual Property 168
Text Ⅱ Ownership of Real Property 177
Text Ⅰ Wrongs Against Persons 186
Unit 11 Intentional Torts 186
Text Ⅱ Wrongs Against Property 196
Unit 12 Business Torts 205
Text Ⅰ Business Torts 205
Text Ⅱ Fraud As a Tort 215
Unit 13 Insurance 224
Text Ⅰ Insurance 224
Text Ⅱ Classification of Insurance 233
Unit 14 Agency Law 242
Text Ⅰ Ageney Law 242
Text Ⅱ Termination of the Agency Relationship 251
Unit 15 Partnership 259
Text Ⅰ Formation of General Partnerships 259
Text Ⅱ Dissolution of General Partnerships 268
Text Ⅰ Nature and Classifications of Corporations 276
Unit 16 Corporation 276
Text Ⅱ Organizing a Corporation 285
Unit 17 Securities Regulation 293
Text Ⅰ Securities Exchange Act of 1933 293
Text Ⅱ Securities Exchange Act of 1934 302
Unit 18 Monopoly and Merger 312
Text Ⅰ Monopoly 312
Text Ⅱ Mergers 321
Unit 19 Labor Law 330
Text Ⅰ Labor 330
Text Ⅱ Employment 340
Unit 20 Corporate Social Responsibility 349
Text Ⅰ History of Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility 349
Text Ⅱ Social Responsibility of Business Corporations 359
References 369
后记 371