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Henry R. Cheeseman is professor emeritus of the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California. Cheeseman earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Marquette University, both a master’s in business administration (MBA) and a master’s in business taxation (MBT) from USC, a juris doctor (JD) degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, a master’s degree with an emphasis on law and economics from the University of Chicago, and a master’s in law (LLM) degree in financial institutions law from Boston University.

Professor Cheeseman was director of the Legal Studies in Business Program at USC. He taught business law, legal environment, and ethics courses in both the MBA and the undergraduate programs of the Marshall School of Business of USC. At the MBA level, he developed and taught courses on corporate governance, securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy law. At the undergraduate level, he taught courses on business law, the legal environment of business, ethics, business organizations, cyber law, and intellectual property.

Cheeseman received the Golden Apple Teaching Award on many occasions by being voted by the students as the best professor at the Marshall School of Business of USC. He was named a fellow of the Center for Excellence in Teaching at USC by the dean of the Marshall School of Business. The USC’s Torch and Tassel Chapter of the Mortar Board, a national senior honor society, tapped Professor Cheeseman for recognition of his leadership, commitment, and excellence in teaching.

Cheeseman writes leading business law and legal environment textbooks that are published by Pearson Education, Inc. These include Business Law, Contemporary Business Law, and The Legal Environment of Business.

He is an avid traveler and amateur photographer. The interior photographs for this book were taken by him.

PART I: LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS AND ONLINE COMMERCE 1. Legal Heritage and the Digital Age 2. Courts and Jurisdiction 3. Judicial, Alternative, and E-Dispute Resolution 4. Constitutional Law for Business and E-Commerce
PART II: TORTS, CRIMES, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 5. Intentional Torts and Negligence 6. Product and Strict Liability 7. Intellectual Property and Cyber Piracy 8. Criminal Law and Cybercrime
PART III: CONTRACTS AND E-COMMERCE 9. Nature of Traditional and E-Contracts 10. Agreement 11. Consideration and Promissory Estoppel 12. Capacity and Legality 13. Genuineness of Assent and Undue Influence 14. Statute of Frauds and Equitable Exceptions 15. Third-Party Rights and Discharge 16. Breach of Contract and Remedies 17. Digital Law and E-Commerce
PART IV: SALES AND LEASE CONTRACTS AND WARRANTIES 18. Formation of Sales and Lease Contracts 19. Title to Goods and Risk of Loss 20. Remedies for Breach of Sales and Lease Contracts 21. Warranties
PART V: NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS, BANKING, AND ELECTRONIC FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS 22. Creation of Negotiable Instruments 23. Holder in Due Course and Transferability 24. Liability, Defenses, and Discharge 25. Banking System and Electronic Financial Transactions
PART VI: CREDIT, SECURED TRANSACTIONS, AND BANKRUPTCY 26. Credit, Real Property Financing, and Debtor’s Rights 27. Secured Transactions 28. Bankruptcy and Reorganization
PART VII: AGENCY, EMPLOYMENT, AND LABOR LAW 29. Agency Formation and Termination 30. Liability of Principals, Agents, and Independent Contractors 31. Employment, Worker Protection, and Immigration Law 32. Labor Law 33. Equal Opportunity in Employment
PART VIII: BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, INVESTOR PROTECTION, AND BUSINESS ETHICS 34. Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and General Partnerships 35. Limited Partnerships and Special Partnerships 36. Corporate Formation and Financing 37. Corporate Governance and Sarbanes-Oxley Act 38. Corporate Acquisitions and Multinational Corporations 39. Limited Liability Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships 40. Franchise and Special Forms of Business 41. Investor Protection and E-Securities Transactions 42. Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business
PART IX: GOVERNMENT REGULATION 43. Administrative Law and Regulatory Agencies 44. Consumer Protection and Product Safety 45. Environmental Protection 46. Antitrust Law and Unfair Trade Practices
PART X: PERSONAL PROPERTY, REAL PROPERTY, AND INSURANCE 47. Personal Property and Bailment 48. Real Property 49. Landlord-Tenant Law and Land Use Regulation 50. Insurance
PART XI: ACCOUNTING PROFESSION 51. Accountants’ Duties and Liability
PART XII: PERSONAL LAW 52. Wills, Trusts, and Estates 53. Family Law
PART XIII: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT 54. International and World Trade Law
Appendix A: Constitution of the United States of America

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