Preface
Business Law I Essentials was developed by Barnes and Noble Education LoudCloud and published by OpenStax, Rice University. It is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). The original work is available at openstax.org/books/business-law-i-essentials. This version has been adapted for use in the Universal Open Textbook Initiative.
About Business Law I Essentials
Business Law I Essentials is a brief introductory textbook designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of courses on Business Law or the Legal Environment of Business. The concepts are presented in a streamlined manner, and cover the key concepts necessary to establish a strong foundation in the subject. The textbook follows a traditional approach to the study of business law. Each chapter contains learning objectives, explanatory narrative and concepts, references for further reading, and end-of-chapter questions.
Business Law I Essentials may need to be supplemented with additional content, cases, or related materials, and is offered as a foundational resource that focuses on the baseline concepts, issues, and approaches.
Answers to Questions in the Book
Students are provided with answers to odd-numbered Assessment Questions via the Answer Key in the book. All answers are provided to instructors in the Instructor's Answer Guide via the Instructor Resources page.
Additional resources
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Contributing Authors and Reviewers
Mirande Valbrune, Esq. Employment Lawyer
Renee De Assis Texas Woman's University
Suzanne Cardell, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Tess C. Taylor, Walden University
Dr. Natalie Sappleton, Smartly Institute
C. M. Mitchell, Ashford University
Kenneth Mitchell-Phillips, Portland Community College