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Business Law with UCC Applications
Business Law with UCC Applications

Business Law with UCC Applications, 15th Edition

ISBN10: 1259998169 | ISBN13: 9781259998164
By Paul Sukys

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Business Law with UCC Applications, 15/e, 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.  

Table of Contents

Part One: Ethics, Law, and the Judicial System
Chapter 1 Ethics and the Law
Chapter 2 Sources of the Law 
Chapter 3 The Judicial Process and Cyber-Procedure
Chapter 4 Alternative Dispute Resolution and Cyber-ADR
Chapter 5 Criminal Law and Cybercrimes
Chapter 6 Tort Law and Cybertorts
Case Study: Barbara Schneider, Plaintiff-Appellantv. Mark Kumpf, Defendant-Appellee

Part Two: Contract Law
Chapter 7 The Essentials of Contract Law
Chapter 8 Offer, Acceptance, and Mutual Assent
Chapter 9 Consideration and Cyber-Payments
Chapter 10 Capacity and Legality: The Final Elements 
Chapter 11 Written Contracts and Cyber- Commerce
Chapter 12 Third Parties, 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
Chapter 13 Sales Contracts: Formation, Title, and Risk of Loss
Chapter 14 Sales Contracts: Rights, Duties,
Breach, and Warranties
Chapter 15 Product Liability and Consumer Protection
Case Study: Norcold, Inc. v. Gateway Supply Company

Part Four: Negotiable Instruments and Banking
Chapter 16 The Nature of Negotiable Instruments
Chapter 17 Holders in Due Course, Defenses, and Liabilities
Chapter 18 Bank–Depositor Relationships and Cyber-Banking
Case Study: Read v. South Carolina National Bank

Part Five: Insurance, Secured Transactions, and Bankruptcy
Chapter 19 Insurance
Chapter 20 Mortgages, Land Contracts, and the 21st-Century Financial Crisis
Chapter 21 Bankruptcy Law: In Theory, in History, and in Practice
Case Study Superior Savings Association v. City of Cleveland

Part Six: Agency and Employment
Chapter 22 Agency Law
Chapter 23 Employment Law
Chapter 24 Labor Law
Case Study: Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital

Part Seven: Business Organization and Regulation
Chapter 25 The Business Entity: An Introduction
Chapter 26 The Corporate Entity
Chapter 27 Managing the Corporate Entity
Chapter 28 Government Regulation of the Corporate Entity
Case Study: Gries Sports Enterprises, Inc. v. Cleveland Browns Football Co., Inc.

Part Eight: Property Law
Chapter 29 Personal Property and Bailments
Chapter 30 Real Property and Landlord and Tenant Law
Chapter 31 Wills, Advance Directives, and Trusts
Case Study: Obergefell, et al., v. Hodges, Director, Ohio Department of Health, et al. 899

Part Nine: The Legal Environment
Chapter 32 Professional Liability
Chapter 33 Science, Technology, and Law in the 21st Century
Chapter 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)

Appendix A: The Constitution of theUnited States
Appendix B: Uniform Commercial Code (Articles 1, 2, 2a, and 3)
Appendix C: United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
Appendix D: Patrick Henry’s Tax Assessment Bill and James Madison’s “Memorial and Remonstrance"
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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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