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Business Law with UCC Applications

ISBN10: 1264217935 | ISBN13: 9781264217939

Business Law with UCC Applications
ISBN10: 1264217935
ISBN13: 9781264217939
By Paul Sukys

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Business Law with UCC Applications is designed to present legal concepts in the most coherent and accessible way and to provide up-to-date coverage of both business and general law topics that are essential to today’s students. Engaging pedagogical features found in the text bring in relevant topics related to current social, political, economic, or ethical issues. Connect, an easy-to-use homework and learning management solution houses our suite of resources and assignments that go hand in hand with the textbook content. Application-Based Activities in Connect are highly interactive, assignable exercises that provide students a safe space to apply the concepts they have learned to real-world, course-specific problems. Each Application-Based Activity involves the application of multiple concepts, allowing students to synthesize information and use critical thinking skills to solve realistic scenarios.

PART ONE: ETHICS, LAW, AND THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM
1.  Ethics and the Law 
2.  Sources of the Law 
3.  The Judicial Process and Cyber-Procedure 
4.  Alternative Dispute Resolution and Cyber-ADR 
5.  Criminal Law and Cybercrimes 
6.  Tort Law and Cybertorts 
Case Study: Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York v. Andrew M. Cuomo Governor of New York 

PART TWO: CONTRACT LAW
7.  The Essentials of Contract Law 
8.  Offer, Acceptance, and Mutual Assent 
9.  Consideration and Cyber-Payments 
10. Capacity and Legality: The Final Elements 
11. Written Contracts and Cyber-Commerce 
12. Assignment, Discharge, and Remedies 
Case Study: Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., et al. (AKA The Hobby Lobby Case) 

PART THREE: SALES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
13. Sales Contracts: Formation, Title, and Risk of Loss 
14. Sales Contracts: Rights, Duties, Breach, and Warranties
15. Product Liability and Consumer Protection 
Case Study: Pritchard v. Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company 

PART FOUR: NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS AND BANKING
16. The Nature of Negotiable Instruments 
17. Holders in Due Course, Defenses, and Liabilities 
18. Bank–Depositor Relationships and Cyber-Banking 
Case Study: Bowling Green, Inc., v. State Street Bank and Trust Company 

PART FIVE: INSURANCE, SECURED TRANSACTIONS, AND BANKRUPTCY
19. Insurance 
20. Mortgages, Land Contracts, and the 21st-Century Financial Crisis 
21. Bankruptcy Law: In Theory, in History, and in Practice 
Case Study: Superior Savings Association v. City of Cleveland 

PART SIX: AGENCY AND EMPLOYMENT 
22. Agency Law 
23. Employment Law 
24. Labor Law 
Case Study: Bethany College and Thomas Jorsch and Lisa Guinn

PART SEVEN: BUSINESS ORGANIZATION AND REGULATION
25. The Business Entity: An Introduction 
26. The Corporate Entity 
27. Managing the Corporate Entity 
28. Government Regulation of the Corporate Entity 
Case Study: Gries Sports Enterprises, Inc. v. Cleveland, Browns Football Co., Inc., 

PART EIGHT: PROPERTY LAW
29. Personal Property and Bailments 
30. Real Property and Landlord and Tenant Law 
31. Wills, Advance Directives, and Trusts
Case Study: Obergefell, et al., v. Hodges, Director, Ohio Department of Health, et al. 

PART NINE: THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT
32. Professional Liability 
33. Science, Technology, and Law in the 21st Century 
34. International Law and the New World Order 
Case Study: Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Request for Advisory Opinion)

About the Author

Paul Sukys

Paul A. Sukys is an attorney and professor emeritus of applied philosophy, humanities, and law at North Central State College in Mansfield, Ohio, where he has taught courses in business law; the legal and ethical aspects of health care; leadership and the humanities; American government; philosophy and science; ethics; science, art, and literature; introduction to the humanities; Eastern philosophy; the philosophy of religion; and Western philosophy.

He has also taught at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Ashland University, and Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. He is the sole author of Lifting the Scientific Veil: Science Appreciation for the Nonscientist and Business Law with UCC Applications and co-author of Civil Litigation and Understanding Business and Personal Law. He has written numerous articles, including “The Hobby Lobby Teachable Moment: Veil Piercing, Corporate Rights, and the Legal Debate,” (Business Education Forum) and “Robinson’s Theological Catch 22 and Emerson’s Divine Man: When Good Intentions Go Wrong,” (Community College Humanities Review). He has also made various presentations at professional conferences, including a session at the National Business Education Association convention in 2018, entitled, “Employment Law in the 21st Century: Can Basic Principles Survive Under Social, Religious, and Political Pressure?”

Sukys earned his doctorate in applied philosophy and art history at the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees in English Literature from John Carroll University in Cleveland, where he taught as a graduate associate. He earned his law degree at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, the law school of Cleveland State University. 

Sukys is a member of the Ohio Bar, the National Business Education Association (NBEA), the Community College Humanities Association (CCHA), the Christian Legal Society, the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA), and the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC). He currently serves as a docent at the Cleveland Museum of Art and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Malabar Farm Foundation, the home of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield. Sukys makes his home in Cleveland.

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