The Fifth Edition of Miller and Cross's THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT TODAY offers your course the AACSB-recommended quality that you demand and a real-world, hands-on learning experience that engages your students in every chapter. Exceeding all expectations-yours and your students', the new edition includes strong guidance in critical thinking and legal reasoning; exceptionally current coverage of ethics, cyberlaw, and corporate responsibility; a superb selection of the latest cases, including 2005 and 2006 decisions; and equally impressive coverage of the landmark cases that continue to steer today's legal environment. Students will find many examples and realistic scenarios where they can use their growing knowledge of the law to resolve legal and ethical issues for themselves.

Roger LeRoy Miller studied at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of Chicago. He has been on the staff of several universities, including the University of Washington, Clemson University, and the University of Miami School of Law, where he taught, among other subjects, intellectual property and entertainment law. A prolific and recognized author, Professor Miller has published in the Insurance Counsel Journal, Defense Research, California Trial Lawyers Journal, Antitrust Bulletin, Wisconsin Law Review, and Connecticut Law Review. He has authored or co-authored numerous textbooks, including BUSINESS LAW: TEXTandCASES--LEGAL, ETHICAL, GLOBAL, AND E-COMMERCE ENVIRONMENT; THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT: TEXT AND CASES--ETHICAL, REGULATORY, GLOBAL, AND E-COMMERCE ISSUES; BUSINESS LAW TODAY; AND THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT TODAY.Frank B. Cross is the Herbert D. Kelleher Centennial Professor of Business Law and a professor at The University of Texas at Austin Law School, where his research centers on judicial decision-making, the economics of law and litigation, and traditional policy and doctrinal issues in administrative law. Widely published, his works have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, New York University Law Review, Texas Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, and UCLA Law Review. He has also published in peer-reviewed journals and written several books. A former president of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, Professor Cross received his B.A. from the University of Kansas and J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Unit 1. THE FOUNDATIONS. 1. The Legal and International Foundations. Appendix: Finding and Analyzing the Law. 2. Ethics and Social Responsibility. 3. Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Unit 2. THE PUBLIC ENVIRONMENT. 4. Constitutional Authority to Regulate Business. 5. Torts, Cyber Torts, and Product Liability. 6. Criminal Law and Cyber Crimes. Unit 3. THE PRIVATE ENVIRONMENT. 7. Intellectual Property. 8. Contract Formation. 9. Contract Performance, Breach, and Remedies. 10. Sales, Leases, and E-Contracts. 11. Business Organizations. 12. Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy. Unit 4. THE EMPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT. 13. Employment Relationships. 14. Equal Employment Opportunities. 15. Labor-Management Relations. Unit 5. THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT. 16. Powers and Functions of Administrative Agencies 17. Consumer Protection. 18. Protecting the Environment. 19. Land-Use Control and Real Property. 20. Promoting Competition. 21. Investor Protection and Corporate Governance. Unit 6. THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT. 22. The Regulation of International Transactions. Appendices.