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Business Law

Fifth Edition   Morgan, © 2015, 1237 pages

The chapters in Business Law consist of three basic parts: text, cases, and problems. The text is written in a style designed for business students and students in related disciplines. The textual material is crafted to present both the richness of the law and the dynamic interaction between law and business. To the extent possible, the focus of the writing is directed toward introducing students of today to the legal issues they will face throughout their careers.

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About the Author

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James F. Morgan served as a faculty member within the College of Business at California State University, Chico, from 1981 until his retirement in 2020, when he was designated emeritus professor. With a juris doctor from the Martin Luther King, Jr. School of Law at the University of California, Davis, Professor Morgan is a practicing attorney licensed in California and has been admitted to the bar of a number of federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. While in graduate school, Professor Morgan served as a law clerk to a judge; since becoming an attorney, he has practiced both civil litigation and transaction law. He has functioned as Judge Pro Tem for the California Superior Court.

Having taught at a law school (Business Associations and Securities Law), within a graduate school of business (Managing the Legal Environment), and at the undergraduate level within a college of business, Professor Morgan prefers teaching undergraduate students. He developed the Employment Law and the Law for the Entrepreneur courses for upper-division and graduate-level business students. Professor Morgan has taught a variety of undergraduate courses, including Business Law/Legal Environment of Business, Employment Law, Law for General Education/Personal Law, Law for the Entrepreneur, and Commercial Law. He is the recipient of university and college-level awards for outstanding teaching, service and research. In addition, Professor Morgan has been a member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business for more than thirty years. He has served as Chair of the Department of Management, Associate Dean of the College of Business, and as University Director of Student and Program Assessment. Professor Morgan has participated in many forms of dispute resolution, including service as a commercial arbitrator in the private sector and as the university ombudsperson on his former home campus.

Professor Morgan served on the editorial board for several business and legal journals. He has authored or co-authored articles in numerous international journals, including the Labor Law Journal; Managerial Law; SAM Advanced Management Journal; International Journal of Business and Public Administration; Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal; Journal of Business and Public Affairs; Employment Relations Today; Employee Relations Law Journal; Journal of Individual Employment Rights; Journal of Education for Business; Journal of Small Business Management; International Journal of Law and Management; and the Journal of Legal Studies Education.

Description

WELCOME TO BUSINESS LAW, FIFTH EDITION

We believe this edition of the text is worthy of the trust you have placed in us to clearly deliver contemporary aspects of business law and the legal environment of business in a comprehensive, dynamic manner appropriate for a variety of learning styles.

The reader should note at the outset that Business Law was created, not only to present traditional principles of legal studies as it relates to business, but also to delve into new arenas pertaining to the interaction of law and business appropriate for business leaders of the twenty-first century. Some legal topics covered in the text have changed little in decades - and some topics have changed little over centuries. Other topics are new to business law and are evolving at a quick pace in order to meet the changing needs of society. We strive to accurately present important legal principles that have weathered successful use in the business environment for many years while also stating popular precepts of law that are forming as yet unsettled areas of jurisprudence. This combination of age-old principles and cutting-edge developments is a characteristic of our legal system that makes its study exciting.

The text has a distinguished and long history, with the first edition being published twenty years ago by two faculty from the University of Georgia, Professors Peter Shedd and Robert Corley. The current author, Professor James F. Morgan, was brought on board to contribute to the second edition, using the firm foundation provided by Shedd and Corley. Each successive edition has embraced the original goal of creating a textbook of the highest quality in terms of scholarship and readability. We believe that the Business Law, fifth edition continues that tradition.

NEW TO THIS EDITION
Business Law, fifth edition contains five major enhancements:

- A new characteristic - termed "Touchstone" - is used liberally throughout the book. A Touchstone could be based on a newspaper article, law review article, legislation, or other item. Each chapter includes three Touchstones. This unique characteristic of the fifth edition is presented to provide the reader with additional examples of situations where the law is being applied or to engage the reader with an aspect of the law that is controversial. It is hoped that the Touchstones offered will serve as starting places for in-class or Internet-based discussions of important legal points included in each chapter.

- Basic aspects of legal reasoning are presented for the first time in this edition. Anytime a student undertakes the study of law, he/she will be exposed implicitly to the legal reasoning process; however, in Business Law, fifth edition we undertake to explicitly explain the legal reasoning process. Chapter 2 contains numerous sections devoted to exploring this fascinating subject.

- The area of ethics and social responsibility is now the major focus of an entire chapter (Chapter 2). Aspects of philosophy and jurisprudence are presented as part of this fascinating subject area.

- Intellectual property, previously covered as part of a chapter on the law of property, has now morphed into a separate chapter (Chapter 12), with considerable attention paid to cyber law and Internet-related aspects of intellectual property law.

- Global aspects of the legal environment of business are emphasized to a much greater degree than in the previous edition. For example, all three chapters within the law of sales (Chapters 21, 22, and 23) contain materials specifically focused on global aspects of the law of sales.

As with previous editions, Business Law, fifth edition details major activities of government which impact business, particularly judicial decisions, legislative pronouncements, and agency actions. This edition includes many new principal cases. Often these new cases are ones that have just been decided, so students have the opportunity to see the current state of the law. Sometimes, however, we employ older cases that articulate particularly well a rule of law and the rationale supporting the decision of a judge or justice. Recently-passed legislation is also explored in this edition. For example, the Affordable Care Act is presented in Chapter 26. Finally, cutting-edge administrative agency developments are covered, including the impact of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Chapter 43).



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