Product Description

Mallor, Barnes, Bowers and Langvardt’s: Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment, 13e is appropriate for the two-term business law course. The cases in the 13th edition are excerpted and edited by the authors. The syntax is not altered, therefore retaining the language of the courts. As in the 12th edition, the 13th edition includes a mix of actual AND hypothetical cases.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104302 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1309 pages

About the Author
Jane P. Mallor has taught business law at Indiana University since 1976. During that time she has received many teaching awards, including the Student Alumni Council Senior Faculty Award, the Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching, and the Amoco Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching.

A. James Barnes is Dean and Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He previously won a distinguished teaching award from Indiana University’s School of Business.

Thomas Bowers is a faculty member of Indiana University’s School of Business. He has received 10 outstanding teaching awards, and is the only two-time recipient of the Indiana University Student Choice Award for outstanding teaching.

Arlen W. Langvardt, currently Associate Professor of Business Law at Indiana University, received several teaching awards and in 1989 received the Holmes/Cardozo Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business.

Customer Reviews

Not reader friendly, not study friendly, not friendly....
I understand Jane Mallor to be top in her field. But since this book is geared toward a non-law student - a business student, I give this book a 1, and a zero if I had the chance.

This book - textually speaking - is so poorly arranged. Key terms are imbedded in the text, there's no review at the end of the chapters, it's written in terrible legal-ease. "Down to earth" (non lawyer legal-ease) examples are difficult to come by, since most of the examples are actual cases that go on for pages (and they're "briefs"). To compound the matter, I spent $$$ on the study "guide" because the book is so unfriendly for studying. And guess what? The study guide has NO ANSWERS! What kind of a guide is that? How does that guide you? If you want it to be an "additional exercises" book, then call it that. But STUDY GUIDES ALWAYS have the answers. I hope your Prof. is better than the book they assign. "Business Law Today" is worlds better and easier to read and study, and better outlined and formatted for the "lay" person.

Business Law... the worst textbook I've ever seen
This has to be the worst textbook I've ever used in my college career. I guess it's only fitting that the worlds most unhelpful professor insist on the world's most unhelpful book.

The organization of each chapter is atrocious. There are no summaries, outlines, or list of terms at end of chapters (though there is an index and glossary, but I'm sure the authors only included this because they were required).

The only way to extract information out of this book is to read it page for page. And if you want to remember or review what you've just read you're left to outline it yourself or reread.

Had there been a study guide distributed with this book it might make more sense that the layout is so aweful... there is none.

Now I'm left to study for a test that covers five chapters (Approx. 200 pages) in two nights time. Thank YOU Mallor, Barnes, Bowers, and Langvardt. Thank YOU.

Poor introduction to business law and a perfect example of the abuse of the textbook industry
With my graduate studies winding down, this has to be the worst book I have been forced to buy. Mallor has written a book that has enough volume to last several classes, however, for me, this was for an MBA business law course. At 15+ pounds and 1300 pages, its weildy and gets into way to much detail as if the authors were paid by the pound and were desparately trying to fill the 1300 pages they produced. In all, there are 50+ chapters. The glossaries and indexes are incomplete and the example cases can go from a quarter page summary to 6 pages of dry detail. The defintions given were usually difficult to outline and highlight and the author's bizarre use of term highlighting with no definition confused me (Or worse, definined a term and did not highlight it. I found I had to use wikipedia very often to get a clear definition because the author either left out the defintition or went off on a tangent.
The professor insisted we needed this book because of the recent case law, multimedia and online ineteraction, however I found it hardly necessary. The book comes with an accompany DVD of very badly acted small claims like cases on some of the major topics (Most of which the professor disagreed with the outcome). None of the case examples seem to go beyond 2005 and the book seems to have fallen short of updating content from as far back as 2003 in the 13th edition, just released this year. The book also has the ability to gain access to online content via an OLC card, but it is just a ploy to keep students from buying an offshore or used book. About the only good thing was the problems at the end of chapters (provided you got the answer sheet from the professor). If you are taking a business law class and it is not your major or emphasis, this book offers little value. Buy it used or find a prof that is using a more efficient book. Looks for mine for sale when it is used because this hiunk a junk serves no value after the class is done, Wikipedia is a much better reference.