Contemporary Australian Business Law

Contemporary Australian Business Law makes key legal concepts accessible to business students, while maintaining academic rigour.

Mark Giancaspro (Author), Gabrielle Golding (Author), Beth Nosworthy (Author), David Brown (Author), Jessica Viven-Wilksch (Author), Alexandra Wawryk (Author), Sylvia Villios (Author), Paula Zito (Author)

9781108984676, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 February 2023

568 pages
25.4 x 20.4 x 2.9 cm, 1.215 kg

Australian businesses operate within a complex legal environment, so it's important students and professionals understand their legal obligations. Contemporary Australian Business Law is an authoritative text that makes key legal concepts accessible to business students, while maintaining academic rigour. Written for business students new to studying business law, this text introduces the fundamental legal topics encountered in business, including contracts, business structures, taxation, property and employment. Discussion in each chapter strikes a balance between accessibility and detail to assist understanding of these complex legal issues. A hypothetical scenario running through each chapter scaffolds learning and provides relevant real-world examples of the law in practice. Each chapter includes margin definitions, case boxes that guide students through landmark business law cases, and practice problems that test students' ability to apply their knowledge to realistic situations. Written by experts, Contemporary Australian Business Law is an essential introduction to the Australian legal system for business students.

1. The Australian legal system
2. Civil liability and the tort of negligence
3. Contracts: formation
4. Contracts: validity
5. Contracts: parties and terms
6. Contracts: performance and remedies
7. Competition and consumer law
8. Employment law
9. Sale of goods
10. Personal property
11. Secured transactions
12. Insurance
13. Business structures
14. Corporations
15. Business taxation law
16. Business ethics
17. Intellectual property
Glossary.

Subject Areas: Company, commercial & competition law [LNC]