Business Law: United States Edition - Hardcover

Cheeseman, Henry R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0136085547 ISBN 13: 9780136085546

Publisher: Pearson, 2009

Synopsis

For one or two semester undergraduate and graduate business law courses.

 

Visually engaging, enticing and current examples with an overall focus on business.

 

Business Law continues to be the most engaging text for students and professors by featuring a visually appealing format with enticing and current examples while maintaining its focus on business. Students will learn business law, ethics, and the legal environment in a way that will encourage them to ask questions and go beyond basic memorization.
 

This edition of Business Law includes over 40 new cases, an up-to-date photo program, several new enticing discussion topics such as “Entrepreneurship: The Founding of Facebook”, “Ethics: Animal Testing”, and Paul McCartney’s Divorce, brief and easy-to-read chapters and cases, new on-line research activities, 25 new ABC news clips and a revised testbank with 500 new questions.

 

About this title

About the Author:

Henry R. Cheeseman is professor emeritus of the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California. Cheeseman earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Marquette University, both a master's in business administration (MBA) and a master's in business taxation (MBT) from USC, a juris doctor (JD) degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, a master's degree with an emphasis on law and economics from the University of Chicago, and a master's in law (LLM) degree in financial institutions law from Boston University. Professor Cheeseman was director of the Legal Studies in Business Program at USC. He taught business law, legal environment, and ethics courses in both the MBA and the undergraduate programs of the Marshall School of Business of USC. At the MBA level, he developed and taught courses on corporate governance, securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy law. At the undergraduate level, he taught courses on business law, the legal environment of business, ethics, business organizations, cyber law, and intellectual property. Cheeseman received the Golden Apple Teaching Award on many occasions by being voted by the students as the best professor at the Marshall School of Business of USC. He was named a fellow of the Center for Excellence in Teaching at USC by the dean of the Marshall School of Business. The USC's Torch and Tassel Chapter of the Mortar Board, a national senior honor society, tapped Professor Cheeseman for recognition of his leadership, commitment, and excellence in teaching. Cheeseman writes leading business law and legal environment textbooks that are published by Pearson Education, Inc. These include Business Law, Contemporary Business Law, and The Legal Environment of Business. He is an avid traveler and amateur photographer. The interior photographs for this book were taken by him.

Synopsis:

For one or two semester undergraduate and graduate business law courses. Comprehensive writing style with accessibility. Business Law, is an exceptionally comprehensive text, widely praised for its writing style and accessibility. This text includes numerous business-oriented features that make the course relevant to future managers and integrates them into every morsel of the text.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0136085547
• ISBN 13: 9780136085546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 984