Business Law: A Storytelling Approach, 1st Edition

Michael Fricke, University of Arizona

Understand how the law impacts businesses through storytelling

Business Law: A Storytelling Approach takes students through the story of a fictional business that encounters legal issues throughout its lifecycle. Each step along the way, students will examine the legal issues that the company faces and how it can navigate them to mitigate risk and position itself for success.

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Business Law: A Storytelling Approach, 1st Edition, Michael Fricke

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In today’s digital world, students expect an engaging, interactive learning experience. Throughout each chapter, assessment questions, interactive exercises and activities, and compelling videos help students connect business law concepts to real-world applications. Learn more about Revel.

Mini-Simulations

Mini-Simulations

At the end of select chapters, a simulation exercise offers an applied way for students to work through challenging concepts by showing rather than telling.
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Video Cases

A dynamic Video Case in each chapter brings actual court decisions to life in an engaging way that encourages students to retain the important points illustrated by a judicial decision.
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Critical Thinking Activities

A variety of cases and additional context help students grasp the ways in which the law affects businesses. They can demonstrate that understanding by responding to the open-response activities.

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Michael Fricke, JD, MBA

Michael Fricke teaches law and ethics at the University of Arizona Eller College of Management. Prior to joining the Eller faculty, he taught at the University of Illinois Gies College of Business and was an attorney in private practice. He loves alliteration, has won numerous teaching awards, and his students generally think he’s a pretty good person. Michael lives with his wife and three daughters in Tucson, Arizona, where the sun shines every day and every form of plant or animal wants to kill you.

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Table of contents

Unit 1: Birth of a Business

1. Sources of Laws
2. The Constitution and Governmental Powers
3. Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships
4. Corporations: Their Characteristics, Formation, and Shareholders’ Roles
5. Corporations: Directors and Officers
6. Limited Liability Companies and Franchises
7. Intellectual Property Protection
8. Financing a New Business

Unit 2: The Growing Company I: Managing Customers and Suppliers

9. Contracts: Agreement and Assent
10. Contracts: Consideration and Statute of Frauds
11. Contracts: Capacity and Legality
12. Contracts: Third-party Rights
13. Contracts: Discharge
14. Contracts for the Sale of Goods, Part I
15. Contracts for the Sale of Goods, Part II

Unit 3: The Growing Company II: Managing Financial Matters

16. Advanced Debtor-Creditor Relations
17. Negotiable Instruments
18. Checks and Banking Regulations
19. Insurance

Unit 4: The Growing Company III: Managing Employees

20. Agency
21. Employment Law and Employee Rights
22. Labor Relations
23. Discrimination and Diversity

Unit 5: Danger! Navigating Business Pitfalls

24. Litigation
25. Civil Liability
26. Criminal Liability
27. Contracts: Performance, Breach, and Remedies
28. Alternative Dispute Resolution

Unit 6: Uncle Sam or Big Brother? The Government’s Role in a Business’s Life

29. Administrative Law
30. Antitrust Regulation
31. Consumer Protection
32. Environmental Protection

Unit 7: Life as a Large, Publicly Traded Company

33. Securities
34. Mergers and Acquisitions
35. Real Property Ownership and Transfer
36. Landlord-Tenant Relations and Governmental Regulation of Land
37. Personal Property
38. International Law & Multinational Companies
39. Bankruptcy