Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials is appropriate for the one-semester Business Law course. It contains the basics of business law but does not get bogged down in the kind of details that are more appropriate in an upper-level law class. The text provides an examination of the basic questions, concepts, and legal rules of business law.

• Emphasis on the BUSINESS in business law. Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials emphasizes the tie of legal issues back to the core business curriculum. This will help both students and faculty. Faculty need to know how this is integrated as they are constantly ‘defending’ the inclusion of this course in the business curriculum. And students need to understand how the concepts tie to their future business careers.


• Emphasis on TEACHING. Many professors teaching this course are attorneys first and academics second. They do not have a lot of time to prepare or think about how to apply this information effectively for their business students. Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials contains a helpful instructor’s manual, particularly for the many adjuncts teaching this course.


• Emphasis on CRITICAL THINKING. Neil Browne, one of the co-authors of this text, has written a successful text on critical thinking. His framework is included in Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials as well – to help students learn how to frame and reframe a question/issue. Critical thinking questions are also included at the end of each case, to tie in this component even further.

Part 1 – The Legal Environment of Business
Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Fundamentals of Dynamic Business Law
Chapter 2: Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Chapter 3: The U.S. Legal System and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Chapter 4: Administrative Law
Chapter 5: Constitutional Law
Chapter 6: Criminal Law and Business
Chapter 7: Tort Law
Chapter 8: Real, Personal, and Intellectual Property

Part 2 – Contract Law
Chapter 9: Introduction to Contracts and Agreement
Chapter 10: Consideration
Chapter 11: Capacity and Legality
Chapter 12: Reality of Assent
Chapter 13: Contracts in Writing and Third-Party ContractsChapter 14: Discharge and Remedies

Part 3 – Domestic and International Sales Law
Chapter 15: Formation and Performance of Sales and Lease Contracts
Chapter 16: Sales and Lease Contracts: Performance, Warranties, Remedies

Part 4 – Negotiable Instruments and Banking
Chapter 17: Negotiable Instruments: Negotiability and Transferability
Chapter 18: Holder in Due Course, Liability, and Defenses

Part 5 – Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy
Chapter 19: Secured Transactions and Bankruptcy

Part 6 – Agency
Chapter 20: Agency and Liability to Third Parties

Part 7 – Business Organizations
Chapter 21: Forms of Business Organization
Chapter 22: Corporations: Formation and Organization
Chapter 23: Securities Regulation

Part 8 – Government Regulation
Chapter 24: Employment and Discrimination Law
Chapter 25: Consumer Law

Appendixes
Appendix A: The Constitution of the United States of America
Appendix B: Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002