West's Legal Environment of Business: Text, Cases, Ethical and Regulatory Issues

by Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller

Based on the best-selling West's Business Law, this text maintains its most popular features and continues to offer flexibility for different teaching philosophies. While focusing on public law issues such as ethics, government regulation, and administrative law, it also provides a good balance of private law topics such as contracts and sales. Selected cases begin with either a "Historical and Social Setting" or a "Company Profile" and address the AACSB's curriculum requirements by focusing on global, political, ethical, social, environmental, technological, and cultural diversity issues.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Law, Textbooks, School

676 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Frank Bernard Cross was the Herbert D. Kelleher Centennial Professor of Business Law at The University of Texas at Austin Law School, where his research centers on judicial decision-making, the economics of law and litigation, and traditional policy and doctrinal issues in administrative law. He has written several books as well as pieces for the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, New York University Law Review, Texas Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, and UCLA Law Review. A former president of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, Professor Cross received his B.A. from the University of Kansas and J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Reviews

[Taylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Covers all pressing topics of business law. The book is relatively easy to read considering the topics and offers a lot of interesting real life examples. Unfortunately doesn't deep dive into any of the topics.

[Shanoah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I mean, it's a textbook so... great for what it is.

[Maggie Gately]

For school!

[Jeffrey Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Of all the textbooks that I have ever read (and having an A.A., B.A., M.A. already while working on the M.B.A. for this course), I've read a lot of them over the years. This book starts with the assumption that the reader has no knowledge of the law or legal system. Having a background in political science and American history, the beginning was dull to me but serves as a baseline for getting everybody on the same page. As it progresses, it adds to the complexity of legal matters where topics covered in later chapters build upon the foundation set earlier. This does justice to giving students a firm foundation and basis to operate from.

Furthermore, each chapter hits upon important legal concepts that those in business must be aware, while using caselaw summaries and court decisions to accentuate those points. Readers must give themselves a good deal of time to pour through the information, as there is a lot there to digest.

Nevertheless, if all textbooks were written in the fashion that this one was, students just may enjoy school a little more.

[Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book for free walking by the Criminology Department of my school just as they were trying to free up their bookshelves. It retails for around $140. I've read a few chapters and I have to say it's actually pretty interesting. I can't really give an honest assessment to any legal or business professional looking for a textbook on the subject though.

[Terrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Studied this book while in business school. It has tons of info for any business owner to know their rights and the rights of their customers.

[Javier Morales · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really dumbed down legal book. Helpful on learning some aspects of U.S. law that I wasn't aware of before.