Lecture Notes

From Business Law For a New Century, 2nd edition by Beatty and Samuelson

West Legal Studies website in support of textbook

The Legal Environment
Ch1 Introduction to Law
Ch2 Dispute Resolution
Ch 3 Common, Statuary and Administrative Law
Ch 4 Constitutional Law
Ch 5  Inference with Business Law
Ch 6  Factual Cause and Foreseeable Harm
Ch 7  Crime 
Ch 8  International Law
Ch 9  Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Contracts
Ch 10 Introduction to Contracts
Ch 11  Agreement
Ch 12  Consideration
Ch 13 Legality
Ch 14 Capacity and Consent
Ch 15 Written Contract
Ch16 Third Parties
Ch 17 Performance and Discharge
Ch 18 Remedies
Commercial Transactions
Ch 19  Introduction to Sales
Ch 20  Ownership and Risk
Ch 21 Warranties and Product Liability
Ch 22 Performance and Remedies
Ch 23 Creating a Negotiable Instrument
Ch 24  Liability for Negotiable Instruments
Ch 25 Liability for Negotiable Instruments:
Ch 26  Secured Transactions
Ch 27 BankruptcyStarting a Business
Agency and Employment Law
Ch 28 Agency: The Inside Relationship
Ch 29 Agency: The Outside Relationship
Ch 30 Employment Law  
Ch 31 Labor Law
Business Organizations
Ch 32 Starting a Business
Ch 33 Life and Death of a Partnership
Ch 34 Partnership in Operation
Ch 35 Life and Death of a Corporation
Ch 36 Corporate Management
Ch 37 Shareholders
Ch 38 Securities Regulation
Ch 39 Accountants: Liability and Professional Responsibility
Government Regulation
Ch 40 Antitrust: Law and Competitive Strategy, Part I
Ch 41 Antitrust: Law and Competitive Strategy, Part II
Ch 42 Consumer Law
Ch 43 Environmental Law
Property
Ch 44 Intellectual Property
Ch 45 Real Property
Ch 46 Landlord-Tenant
Ch 47 Personal Property
Ch 48 Estate Planning
Ch 49 Insurance

Wikipedia on the Law

• Arbitration
• Contracts
• Corporate law
• Financial regulation
• Intellectual property
• Letter of credit
• List of business law topics
• Negotiable instrument
• Property law
• Tax law

Law and Accounting has some good summary notes by class.

Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Business Law (Schaum's Outlines)