Kiren Dosanjh Zucker, author of Chapters 4, 6, 7, 12, 13, and 14, is a Professor of Accounting at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). She earned a BA in Political Science from Syracuse University and a JD from the University of Michigan. A member of the State Bar of California, she has served on its Committee of Bar Examiners and Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Her teaching and research interests focus primarily on employment law, pedagogy, and accounting ethics. In 2001, she was selected as a Master Teaching by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and in 2004 she received the Outstanding Faculty Award from CSUN's Students with Disabilities Resources Center. IN 2004 and 2006, she also received a CSUN University Ambassadors' Polished Apple Award. In 2014, CSUN Accounting students named her the Harvey A. Bookstein Accounting Professor of the Year, and in 2015, she received the Master of Science in Accountancy Program's Outstanding Teaching Award.

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Law, Business and Society fits both upper-division undergraduate and masters levels courses in legal environment of business, government and business, and business and society. Law, Business and Society takes an interdisciplinary approach, using elements of law, political economy, international business, ethics, social responsibility, and management. Students will find an interesting, provocative reading experience filled with contemporary legal and ethical conflicts emerging from today's news, as well as scholarly results, surveys, polls, data, anecdotes, and other specific details that lend credibility, immediacy, and interest to the reading experience.

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UNIT ONE: BUSINESS AND SOCIETY
1 Capitalism and the Role of Government
2 Business Ethics
3 The Corporation and Public Policy Expanding Responsibilities

UNIT TWO: INTRODUCTION TO LAW
4 The American Legal System
5 Constitutional Law and the Bill of Rights
6 Contracts
7 Business Torts and Product Liability

UNIT THREE: TRADE REGULATION AND ANTITRUST
8 Government Regulation of Business
9 Business Organizations and Securities Regulation
10 Antitrust Law-Restraints of Trade
11 Antitrust Law-Monopolies and Mergers

UNIT FOUR: EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
12 Employment Law I Employee Rights
13 Employment Law II Discrimination
14 Employment Law III Labor-Management Relations

UNIT FIVE: SELECTED TOPICS IN GOVERNMENT-BUSINESS RELATIONS
15 Consumer Protection
16 International Ethics and Law
17 Environmental Protection
18 Internet Law and Ethics

APPENDIX A: The Constitution of the United States of America
APPENDIX B: The Uniform Commercial Code