This is a legal environment text that takes a managerial focus and has many business-oriented features presenting cutting-edge issues and cases. To illustrate key legal concepts, this text uses both summarized and excerpted cases.;Material on cyberlaw and e-commerce is integrated, as appropriate, throughout the text and is identified by an icon in the margin. To encourage class discussion commentaries on how standards of ethics and social responsibility do, and sometimes do not, inform the process of lawmaking are included throughout the chapters.;Also integrated through the chapters is a feature that focuses on international issues that relate to the chapter topic, while appearing in selected chapters is a feature which presents legal issues in a broader perspective discussing the historical, political and economic context in which law is created. The text uses both summarized and excerpted cases to provide the reader with exposure to the language of the court in some instances and with a more succinct case example in other instances.