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Brief and affordable, FUNDAMENTALS OF BUSINESS LAW: SUMMARIZED CASES focuses on core business law topics, including contracts and sales. Summarized cases are integrated throughout the text to illustrate key points of law. FUNDAMENTALS OF BUSINESS LAW: SUMMARIZED CASES is ideal for the one-term course that focuses primarily on contracts and sales.
About the Author
Roger LeRoy Miller studied at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. He has been on the staff of a number of universities, including the University of Washington, Clemson University, and the University of Miami School of Law, where he taught, among other subjects, intellectural property and entertainment law. He 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 numberous textbooks, including Business Law: Text & Cases–Legal, Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment, The Legal Environment:Text & Cases–Ethical, Regulatory, Global, and E-Commerce Issues, Business Law Today, and The Legal Environment Today.
Dr. Jentz is the Herbert D. Kelleher Emeritus Centennial Professor in Business Law at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business. He received his B.A., M.B.A., and J.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Jentz has been past President of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, the Southwestern Federation of Administrative Disciplines, the Southern Business Law Association, Phi Kappa Phi (UT Chapter), and the Texas Association of College Teachers. He is the author or co-author of six monographs and fifty-six books and editions, including West’s Business Law: Text & Cases, tenth edition (2006), West’s Business Law Alternate Edition, tenth edition (2007), Fundamentals of Business Law, seventh edition (2007), and two versions of Business Law Today, seventh edition (2008), plus the Comprehensive Edition (2007). He has also published in learned journals and is past editor-in-chief of the American Business Law Journal. Dr. Jentz has given advanced purchasing seminars throughout the United States and previously taught over the years at five regional and graduate banking schools. Dr. Jentz is the recipient of sixteen teaching, academic, and service excellence awards, including the CBA Foundation Award for Excellence in Education, the CBA Foundation Advisory Council Distinguished Scholastic Contributions Award, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business Faculty Excellence Award, the Western States School of Banking Leadership Award, the James C. Scarboro Memorial Award for Outstanding Leadership in Banking Education, The University of Texas “Civitatis” Award, and the induction into the Texas Business School (McCombs School of Business) “CBA Hall of Fame.”
