Includes index.

Contents: Foundations of American law: The nature of law -- The resolution of private disputes -- Business and the constitution -- Business ethics, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance and critical thinking -- Crimes and tortes: Criminal law and procedure -- Intentional torts -- Negligence and strict liability -- Intellectual property and unfair competition -- Contracts: Introduction to contracts -- The agreement: offer -- The agreement: acceptance -- Consideration -- Reality of consent -- Capacity to contract -- Illegality -- Writing -- Rights of third parties -- Performance and remedies -- Sales: Formation and terms of sales contracts -- Product liability -- Performance of sales contracts -- Remedies for breach of sales contracts -- Property: Personal property and bailments -- Real property -- Landlord and tenant -- Estates and trusts -- Insurance law -- Credit: Introduction to credit and secured transactions -- Security interests in personal property -- Bankruptcy -- Commercial paper: Negotiable instruments -- Negotiation and holder in due course -- Liability of parties -- Checks and electronic transfers -- Agency law: The agency relationship --Third-party relations of the principal and the agent -- Partnerships: Introduction to forms of business and formation of partnerships -- Operation of partnerships and related forms -- Partners' dissociation and partnerships' dissolution and winding up -- Limited liability companies, limited partnerships and limited liability limited partnerships -- Corporations: History and nature of corporations -- Organization and financial structure of corporations -- Management of corporations -- Shareholders' rights and liabilities -- Securities regulation -- Legal and professional responsibilities of auditors, consultants and securities professionals -- Regulation of business: Administrative law -- The Federal trade commission act and consumer protection laws -- Antitrust: the Sherman Act -- The Clayton act, the Robinson-Patman act and antitrust exemptions and immunities -- Employment law -- Environmental regulation --