Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business | Don Mayer, Daniel Warner, George Siedel, and Jethro K. Lieberman

- 1Introduction to Law and Legal Systems
  - 1.1What Is Law?
  - 1.2Schools of Legal Thought
  - 1.3Basic Concepts and Categories of US Positive Law
  - 1.4Sources of Law and Their Priority
  - 1.5Legal and Political Systems of the World
  - 1.6A Sample Case
  - 1.7Summary and Exercises
- 2Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
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  - 2.1What Is Ethics?
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  - 2.2Major Ethical Perspectives
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  - 2.3An Ethical Decision Model
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  - 2.4Corporations and Corporate Governance
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  - 2.5Summary and Exercises
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- 3Courts and the Legal Process
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  - 3.1The Relationship between State and Federal Court Systems in the United States
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  - 3.2The Problem of Jurisdiction
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  - 3.3Motions and Discovery
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  - 3.4The Pretrial and Trial Phase
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  - 3.5Judgment, Appeal, and Execution
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  - 3.6When Can Someone Bring a Lawsuit?
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  - 3.7Relations with Lawyers
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  - 3.8Alternative Means of Resolving Disputes
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  - 3.9Cases
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- 4Constitutional Law and US Commerce
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  - 4.1Basic Aspects of the US Constitution
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  - 4.2The Commerce Clause
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  - 4.3Dormant Commerce Clause
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  - 4.4Preemption: The Supremacy Clause
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  - 4.5Business and the Bill of Rights
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  - 4.6Cases
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  - 4.7Summary and Exercises
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- 5Administrative Law
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  - 5.1Administrative Agencies: Their Structure and Powers
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  - 5.2Controlling Administrative Agencies
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  - 5.3The Administrative Procedure Act
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  - 5.4Administrative Burdens on Business Operations
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  - 5.5The Scope of Judicial Review
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  - 5.6Cases
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  - 5.7Summary and Exercises
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- 6Criminal Law
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  - 6.1The Nature of Criminal Law
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  - 6.2Types of Crimes
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  - 6.3The Nature of a Criminal Act
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  - 6.4Responsibility
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  - 6.5Procedure
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  - 6.6Constitutional Rights of the Accused
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  - 6.7Cases
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  - 6.8Summary and Exercises
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- 7Introduction to Tort Law
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  - 7.1Purpose of Tort Laws
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  - 7.2Intentional Torts
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  - 7.3Negligence
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  - 7.4Strict Liability
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  - 7.5Cases
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  - 7.6Summary and Exercises
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- 8Contracts
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  - 8.1General Perspectives on Contracts
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  - 8.2Contract Formation
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  - 8.3Remedies
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  - 8.5Summary and Exercises
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- 9Consumer Credit Transactions
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  - 9.1Entering into a Credit Transaction
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  - 9.2Consumer Protection Laws and Debt Collection Practices
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  - 9.3Cases
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- 10Secured Transactions and Suretyship
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  - 10.1Introduction to Secured Transactions
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  - 10.2Priorities
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  - 10.3Rights of Creditor on Default and Disposition after Repossession
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  - 10.4Suretyship
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  - 10.6Summary and Exercises
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- 11Mortgages and Nonconsensual Liens
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  - 11.1Uses, History, and Creation of Mortgages
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  - 11.2Priority, Termination of the Mortgage, and Other Methods of Using Real Estate as Security
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  - 11.3Nonconsensual Lien
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- 12Bankruptcy
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  - 12.1Introduction to Bankruptcy and Overview of the 2005 Bankruptcy Act
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  - 12.2Case Administration; Creditors’ Claims; Debtors’ Exemptions and Dischargeable Debts; Debtor’s Estate
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  - 12.3Chapter 7 Liquidation
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  - 12.4Chapter 11 and Chapter 13 Bankruptcies
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  - 12.5Alternatives to Bankruptcy
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  - 12.6Cases
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  - 12.7Summary and Exercises
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- 13Intellectual Property
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  - 13.1Patents
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  - 13.2Trade Secrets
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  - 13.3Copyright
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  - 13.4Trademarks
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  - 13.5Cases
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  - 13.6Summary and Exercises
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- 14The Nature and Regulation of Real Estate and the Environment
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  - 14.1Estates
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  - 14.2Rights Incident to Possession and Ownership of Real Estate
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  - 14.3Easements: Rights in the Lands of Others
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  - 14.4Regulation of Land Use
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  - 14.5Environmental Law
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  - 14.7Summary and Exercises
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- 15Securities Regulation
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  - 15.1The Nature of Securities Regulation
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  - 15.2Liability under Securities Law
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  - 15.3Cases
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- 16Antitrust Law
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  - 16.1History and Basic Framework of Antitrust Laws in the United States
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  - 16.2Horizontal Restraints of Trade
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  - 16.3Vertical Restraints of Trade
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  - 16.4Price Discrimination: The Robinson-Patman Act
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  - 16.5Exemptions
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  - 16.6Sherman Act, Section 2: Concentrations of Market Power
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  - 16.7Acquisitions and Mergers under Section 7 of the Clayton Act
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  - 16.8Cases
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  - 16.9Summary and Exercises
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- 17Unfair Trade Practices and the Federal Trade Commission
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  - 17.1The Federal Trade Commission: Powers and Law Governing Deceptive Acts
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  - 17.2Deceptive Acts and Practices
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  - 17.3Unfair Trade Practices
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  - 17.4Remedies
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  - 17.6Summary and Exercises
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- 18Employment Law
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  - 18.1Federal Employment Discrimination Laws
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  - 18.2Employment at Will
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  - 18.3Other Employment-Related Laws
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- 19Labor-Management Relations
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  - 19.1A Brief History of Labor Legislation
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  - 19.2The National Labor Relations Board: Organization and Functions
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  - 19.3Labor and Management Rights under the Federal Labor Laws
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  - 19.4Case
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- 20International Law
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  - 20.1Introduction to International Law
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  - 20.2Sources and Practice of International Law
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  - 20.3Important Doctrines of Nation-State Judicial Decisions
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  - 20.4Regulating Trade
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