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Business Law with UCC Applications by Paul A. Sukys

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  • 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 TheHobby 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 Law24: 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 A. 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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