This month’s blog post was contributed by Mahrya Burnett, Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Iowa.
The University of Iowa Libraries has recently published a new Pressbooks OER, Business Law, Ethics, and Sustainability, by Andrew Hosmanek, Brendan Smith, and Michael Dayton, which is used in UI’s introduction to business law courses. The book is a remix of Jeff Lingwall’s Business Law: A Risk Management Approach from Boise State.
For those who are unfamiliar, remixing is one of the many benefits of OER. Authors can alter openly licensed source material in order to better fit local contexts and meet course objectives. Instructors should read both versions of this excellent free and open business law text to see which is more closely aligned to their needs, or remix aspects of both!
Table of contents:
- Law and Risk Management
- Introduction to Law and Legal Systems
- Courts and the Legal Process
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
- Constitutional Law and US Commerce
- Administrative and Environmental Law
- Criminal Law
- Introduction to Tort Law
- Products Liability
- Introduction to Contract Law
- Small Business Organizations
- Agency and Employment Law
- Employment Discrimination Law
Strengths:
- Consistent chapter structures – each chapter begins with learning objectives and ends with key takeaways to help the reader structure their experience
- Charts and graphics are used to illustrate difficult concepts
- Difficult concepts are explained in a clear and concise way