Law for Business

PART ONE Introduction to the Law
Chapter 1 Law, Legal Reasoning, and the Legal Profession
Chapter 2 Dispute Settlement
Chapter 3 Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Chapter 4 Business and the Constitution
Chapter 5 Crimes
Chapter 6 Intentional Torts
Chapter 7 Negligence and Strict Liability
Chapter 8 Licensing and Intellectual Property

PART TWO Contracts
Chapter 9 The Nature and Origins of Contracts
Chapter 10 Creating a Contract: Offers
Chapter 11 Creating a Contract: Acceptances
Chapter 12 Consideration
Chapter 13 Capacity to Contract
Chapter 14 Voluntary Consent
Chapter 15 Illegality
Chapter 16 The Form and Meaning of Contracts
Chapter 17 Third Parties' Contract Rights
Chapter 18 Performance and Remedies

PART THREE Sales
Chapter 19 Formation and Terms of Sales Contracts
Chapter 20 Warranties and Product Liability
Chapter 21 Performance of Sales Contracts
Chapter 22 Remedies for Breach of Sales Contracts

PART FOUR Agency and Employment
Chapter 23 The Agency Relationship-Creation, Duties, and Termination
Chapter 24 Liability of Principals and Agents to Third Parties
Chapter 25 Employment Laws

PART FIVE Business Organizations
Chapter 26 Which Form of Business Organization?
Chapter 27 Partnerships
Chapter 28 Formation and Termination of Corporations
Chapter 29 Management of the Corporate Business
Chapter 30 Financing the Corporation and the Role of the Shareholders
Chapter 31 Securities Regulation
Chapter 32 Legal Liability of Accountants

PART SIX Property
Chapter 33 Personal Property and Bailments
Chapter 34 Real Property
Chapter 35 Landlord and Tenant
Chapter 36 Estates and Trusts
Chapter 37 Insurance

PART SEVEN Commercial Paper
Chapter 38 Negotiable Instruments
Chapter 39 Negotiation and Holder in Due Course
Chapter 40 Liability of Parties
Chapter 41 Checks and Electronic Fund Transfers
PART EIGHT Credit Transactions
Chapter 42 Introduction to

A. James Barnes is Dean and Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He previously won a distinguished teaching award from Indiana University's School of Business.