Using an integrated approach, FOUNDATIONS OF THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS, 3E thoroughly explores the intersection of law, business strategy, and ethics. Authored by a renowned scholar of business ethics, this concise legal environment text covers all core topics and fulfills current curricular and AACSB accrediting standards. The third edition features intriguing examples of legal and ethical issues pulled straight from the news and pop culture, and the author's KnowNow blog gives you access to hundreds of additional examples and pending cases. All-new cases have been strategically chosen to integrate multiple chapter concepts. In addition, new self-graded quizzes at the end of each chapter enable students to check how well they read and understood chapter material. With more than 200 real-world cases and critical-thinking exercises, this student-friendly textbook helps students define their ethical compass within the business world.

Part I: BUSINESS: ITS LEGAL, ETHICAL, AND JUDICIAL ENVIRONMENT.
1. Introduction to Law.
2. Business Ethics and Social Responsibility.
3. The Court System and Dispute Resolution.
Part II. BUSINESS: ITS REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT.
4. Business and the Constitution.
5. Administrative Law.
6. International Law.
7. Business Crime.
8. Business Torts.
9. Environmental Regulation and Sustainability.
Part III: THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS.
10. Contracts and Sales: Introduction and Formation.
11. Contracts and Sales: Performance, Remedies, and Rights.
12. Business Marketing and Products: Ads and Product Safety.
13. Business Competition: Antitrust Law.
14. Business and Intellectual Property Law.
Part IV: THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS.
15. Agency Law.
16. Governance and Structure: The Law of Business Associations.
17. Governance and Regulation: Securities Law.
18. Business and Employees: Employment Regulation.
19. Business and Employees: Employment Discrimination.
Appendix A: The United States Constitution.
Appendix B: The Uniform Commercial Code (Excerpts).

Using an integrated approach, FOUNDATIONS OF THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS, 3E thoroughly explores the intersection of law, business strategy, and ethics. Authored by a renowned scholar of business ethics, this concise legal environment text covers all core topics and fulfills current curricular and AACSB accrediting standards. The third edition features intriguing examples of legal and ethical issues pulled straight from the news and pop culture, and the author's KnowNow blog gives you access to hundreds of additional examples and pending cases. All-new cases have been strategically chosen to integrate multiple chapter concepts. In addition, new self-graded quizzes at the end of each chapter enable students to check how well they read and understood chapter material. With more than 200 real-world cases and critical-thinking exercises, this student-friendly textbook helps students define their ethical compass within the business world. Updated Features and Problems: Each chapter contains at least one new end-of-chapter Problem as well as a new "Consider…" or "Ethical Issue" feature. Examples include Lance Armstrong's rationalizations about why he continued to cheat, ethical issues on films such as "The Wolf of Wall Street," legal issues with an Oscar-winning director concerned about government requests for information about her film "Zero Dark Thirty," a KPMG partner who passed along information about audit clients to a friend so that the friend could trade on the clients' stock before the information became public, and Courtney Love's libel suit for her Twitter remarks about a dress designer. Up-to-the-Minute Examples: The text's innovative KnowNow blog offers hundreds of current examples and pending cases to pique student interest and get students discussing and applying the law to real-world cases. Updated Law: The third edition's coverage of updates to the law includes the addition of Dodd-Frank materials in the securities law sections and consumer credit discussions; provisions of the JOBS Act; the Supreme Court's evolution on Commerce Clause issues, new decisions on affirmative action, and the right of a corporation to challenge a law on the basis of its owners' religious beliefs; and changes in the 1933 Securities Act primary offering and registration section to reflect changes made to allow businesses to raise capital more easily. Chapter 6, "International Law," includes a new emphasis on money laundering and international banking issues. Restructured TOC: In response to instructor feedback, the chapters on employment regulation and employment discrimination have been moved to the business operations section at the end of the book (now Chapters 18 and 19) because they are often covered in other classes. Chapters 10 through 12 also have been significantly restructured, allowing chapter lengths to be more evenly distributed. All consumer credit issues and Dodd-Frank updates have been integrated into the contracts chapters (Chapters 10 and 11) so that they are included in the contracts rights discussion. This cleaner organization de-emphasizes the consumer credit protection laws and allows Chapter 12 to focus entirely on product safety and warranties, including dangerous and defective products. New Cases: In a new approach, cases have been strategically chosen to integrate several chapter concepts at once--instead of one case focusing on one topic from the chapter. The new case in Chapter 15, "Agency Law," provides a thorough discussion of all types of agency--express, implied, and apparent--so that students can see the concepts integrated together. The new case in Chapter 18, "Business and Employees: Employment Regulation," about a bear-feeding employee who smoked marijuana before feeding the bears and then was mauled by a bear incorporates so many concepts about workers' compensation that all of the critical issues can be combined in the discussion of this one case. Presented in an easy-to-understand "think/apply/answer" format, Critical Thinking Applications encourage students to analyze the legal and ethical material discussed in the text. Carefully selected cases immediately draw students in with a catchy one-line introduction that provides a quick synopsis of the legal and ethical topics at hand. Detailed yet succinct, the cases are one to two pages in length. End-of-chapter "Red Flags for Managers" outline the most critical legal issues that students need to know when they enter the business world--giving them valuable insight into real-world practice.