Business Law: Text and Cases

Key differences between 14th and 13th editions

• Time lapse between current and previous publications: 3 years (2017 vs 2014).
• For the first time Clarkson's Business Law was published in 2003.
• MINDTAP is an online, personalized learning experience built on Cengage Learning content.
• The Fourteenth E. has many new cases, Issue Spotters, Cases in Point, case problems, exhibits, graphic concept summaries, business scenarios.
• Chapter 4: Managerial Strategy feature on Marriage equality (disambiguation).
• Chapter 5:
• The concept of Corporate social responsibility (CSR) stakeholders.
• Ethical decision making in business.
• Global business ethics principles.
• Chapter 8:
• The growing problem of patent trolling.
• Case in Point about Sherlock Holmes and the curious case of expired copyright.
• Chapter 9:
• New section on cyberstalking, the use of electronic communications, particularly the Internet, to persistently harass someone.
• Digital Update feature on increasingly important question schould companies monitor their employees' social media.
• Chapter 10: Managerial Strategy about the criminalization of American business.
• Chapter 24:
• New section discussing international and domestic space law.
• U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision on Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) of 1789.
• Trans Pacific Partnership, a multinational trade agreement.
• Ethical issues of brewing imported beer brands domestically.
• Chapter 28: Declining proportion of the check payments due to use of electronic payment systems.
• Chapter 31: Student loan forgiveness programs.
• Chapters 32-33:
• Reflect trend toward gig economy, the prevalence of short-term contractors, freelance workers, and temporary employees.
• Global Insight feature on Islamic law and Respondeat superior, a doctrine in tort law.
• Chapter 34 :
• Ethics Today discussing bathroom breaks at the workplace.
• Managerial Strategy about employees' right to use company email systems for union organizing activity.
• Chapter 35:
• Discrimination based on an employee's military status.
• Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
• Workplace discrimination of transgender employees.
• Social media discrimination.
• Chapter 39: Global Insight feature on nationality in the cloud computing.
• Chapter 42: Managerial Strategy about new CEO pay ratio disclosure rule and its implications.
• Chapter 46: Digital update on European Union's antitrust action against Google.