Law for Entrepreneurs

By Don Mayer, Daniel Warner, George Siedel and Jethro K. Lieberman
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Law for Entrepreneurs provides students with context and essential legal concepts relating to contracts, product liability, intellectual property, insurance, agency law, partnerships, corporations, and employment law.

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  • Pub Date: March 2012
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Mayer, Warner, Siedel and Lieberman's Law for Entrepreneurs is an up-to-date textbook that covers the broad spectrum of legal issues that entrepreneurs must understand when starting and running a business. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style.


After introductory chapters covering the legal environment of business, Law for Entrepreneurs provides students with context and essential legal concepts relating to contracts, product liability, intellectual property, insurance, agency law, partnerships, corporations, and employment law. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy that entrepreneurs need to talk in an educated way to customers, suppliers, employees, creditors, shareholders, government regulators and other stakeholders — and to their own lawyers.


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Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to Law and Legal Systems
  • Chapter 2: Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
  • Chapter 3: Courts and the Legal Process
  • Chapter 4: Constitutional Law and US Commerce
  • Chapter 5: Administrative Law
  • Chapter 6: Criminal Law
  • Chapter 7: Introduction to Tort Law
  • Chapter 8: Introduction to Contract Law
  • Chapter 9: The Agreement
  • Chapter 10: Real Assent
  • Chapter 11: Consideration
  • Chapter 12: Legality
  • Chapter 13: Form and Meaning
  • Chapter 14: Third-Party Rights
  • Chapter 15: Discharge of Obligations
  • Chapter 16: Remedies
  • Chapter 17: Products Liability
  • Chapter 18: Intellectual Property
  • Chapter 19: Insurance
  • Chapter 20: Relationships between Principal and Agent
  • Chapter 21: Liability of Principal and Agent; Termination of Agency
  • Chapter 22: Partnerships: General Characteristics and Formation
  • Chapter 23: Partnership Operation and Termination
  • Chapter 24: Hybrid Business Forms
  • Chapter 25: Corporation: General Characteristics and Formation
  • Chapter 26: Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance
  • Chapter 27: Corporate Powers and Management
  • Chapter 28: Securities Regulation
  • Chapter 29: Corporate Expansion, State and Federal Regulation of Foreign Corporations, and Corporate Dissolution
  • Chapter 30: Employment Law
  • Chapter 31: Labor-Management Relations
  • Chapter 32: Consumer Credit Transactions
  • Chapter 33: Secured Transactions and Suretyship
  • Chapter 34: Mortgages and Nonconsensual Liens
  • Chapter 35: Bankruptcy
  • Chapter 36: Introduction to Property: Personal Property and Fixtures
  • Version 1.0 | 03-2012 (This Version)

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