The Legal and Regulatory Environment (3rd Edition) [Hardcover]

Henry R. Cheeseman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130330264 | ISBN-13: 978-0130330260 | Publication Date: June 25, 2001 | Edition: 3rd

For Legal Environment of Business courses. This best-selling text focuses on how the legal environment impacts business decisions. This text represents the single most up-to-date book available for the Legal Environment course. It fully integrates the AACSB curriculum standards throughout the text with extensive international, ethical and critical thinking examples. Cheeseman examines how the current legal environment, government regulation, and e-commerce environment impact today's business decisions. The cases are cutting edge, exciting, and engaging, and the reasoning of each case is presented in the language of the court.

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This text represents the single most up-to-date book available for the Legal Environment course. Using language that is straight forward, relevant applications, and current and engaging cases, this book examines how government regulations and environment impacts business decisions. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

From the Back Cover

This new edition of Cheeseman's The Legal and Regulatory Environment recognizes the revolution that the Internet and electronic commerce has brought to business and society throughout the United States and the world. The courts have interpreted and adapted existing laws to apply to e-commerce, while state legislatures and Congress have enacted new statutes to regulate the digital economy.

The third edition of Cheeseman's The Legal and Regulatory Environment incorporates e-commerce and Internet law throughout the book. First, there is a new Unit III, Internet and E-Commerce Environment that has two chapters dealing exclusively with legal and business issues related to the new electronic economy. These chapters are:

• Chapter 9: Intellectual Property and Internet Law
• Chapter 10: Electronic Commerce and Domain Names

Also, there are more than 50 new E-Commerce and Internet Law boxes that feature special laws and cases related to the Internet and Web-based commerce that are strategically located throughout the book. Some of these special featured boxes are:

• The Federal Electronic Signatures Act
• Broad Free-Speech Rights Granted in Cyberspace
• Obtaining Personal Jurisdiction in Cyberspace
• Napster Unplugged by the Court
• Federal Law Helps Victims of Identity Fraud
• The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA)
• The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA)
• Electronic Communications Privacy Act
• Cyber Business Plans Are Patentable
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Anticybersquatting Act Passed by Congress

Cheeseman's The .Legal and Regulatory Environment, Third Edition has the most comprehensive coverage of the expanding area of intellectual property law and the new and exciting areas of domain names, electronic commerce, and Internet Law. Please take a look at Chapters 9 and 10 and the extensive e-commerce and Internet law materials in this exciting revision.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 774 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3rd edition (June 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130330264
• ISBN-13: 978-0130330260
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,010,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource, May 22, 2002

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This review is from: The Legal and Regulatory Environment (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

I used this book for my Business Law class in my community college, and I was thoughly satisfied. Simply reading the book alone without instruction can give one a wealth of pratical knowledge about the law and how it affects the business process.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, August 31, 2000

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Benjamin F. Schumin "Ben Schumin" (Silver Spring, Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Legal and Regulatory Environment: Contemporary Perspectives in Business (Hardcover)

This book is an excellent resource for people who are not going into the legal profession to become a little more legally literate, and to get a good understanding on how the law works. It explains concepts and the like in plain English, and presents relevant cases showing the law at work in plain English. A must-buy for anyone who is seeking to be more knowledgeable in the way the law works.