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Business Law: Principles, Cases, and Policy by Mark E. Roszkowski Sixth Edition, 2006. ISBN 1-55874-557-0 List Price $99.40

THE TEXT

Business Law:  Principles, Cases, and Policy is characterized by the quality of its presentation and production.  Professor Roszkowski recognized early on that student learning is based on the quality of the text– how well written it is, how well it explains the concepts, how many examples and illustrations it contains, how well organized it is, and how comprehensive and thorough it is.  See the Table of Contents.
Business Law:  Principles, Cases, and Policy is first and foremost a textbook.  It allows you to teach your class without having to spend class time supplementing, correcting, or explaining the material in the text.  With Business Law:  Principles, Cases, and Policy, you can rely on the text to provide the basics, freeing you to do what you want with your class time.  Business Law:  Principles, Cases, and Policy also is unapologetically a law book.  It has a real cloth cover, the highest quality paper and is printed in an easy to read double-column format using classic Times-Roman typeface.

CASES

Professor Roszkowski also recognizes the importance of excerpted court cases in teaching legal topics.  To this end, Business Law:  Principles, Cases, and Policy contains the finest selection of edited cases appearing in any business law text.  These cases are integrated throughout the text material, and include a mix of state and federal court cases.  They include both classic and recently decided cases.  These are real cases, not mere case briefs or summaries.  The facts and procedural history are first stated by the authors, followed by a substantial excerpt from the court’s opinion.  This approach provides the student with a good illustration of legal reasoning and analysis in operation and provides a basis for class discussion.

It is important to note that the cases in this book are designed to reinforce and illustrate the concepts explained in the text.  They are not a substitute for adequate text coverage of the topic presented.  Thus, students will learn the material by reading the text, whether or not you decide to assign the case relating to the material or discuss it in class.

Business Law:  Principles, Cases, and Policy has the finest set of ancillaries available for any text.

 NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Expanded coverage of federal diversity jurisdiction (Chapter 1).
• Expanded coverage of personal jurisdiction (Chapter 2).
• New coverage of 2005 federal class action amendments (Chapter 2).
• Expanded coverage of removal jurisdiction (Chapter 2).
• Revised text reflecting revised Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code
• (Chapter 6 and all other Article 1 references in the text).
• New coverage of the Incoterms 2000 shipping terms published by the
• International Chamber of Commerce (Chapter 16 and Appendix B).
• Expanded coverage of the check collection process (Chapter 27).
• Expanded coverage of the Fair Credit Reporting Act as amended in 2003 (Chapter 28).
• Revision of the bankruptcy material to reflect major changes made by 2005 amendments (Chapter 30).
• Revision of the documents of title material to reflect 2003 revision of  UCC Article 7 (Chapter 35).
• Coverage of the 2001 revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (Chapter 44).
• Coverage of 2004 and 2005 amendments to the Model Business
• Corporation Act regarding the duties of officers and directors (Chapter 47).
• Revision of the securities regulation material to reflect changes in public offering rules adopted by the SEC in 2005 (Chapter 49).
• Expanded coverage of insider trading (Chapter 49).
• New coverage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Chapter 49).