32 Legal Studies
Business Law, Ethics, and Sustainability
Andrew J Hosmanek, Brendan Smith, and Michael J Dayton
2023
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Business Law, Ethics, and Sustainability is a textbook for undergraduate law courses. It covers business law topics such as contracts, business organizations, employment law, and torts, as well as a general survey of American law. Additional topics include Constitutional law, civil rights, environmental law, criminal law, and litigation.
Formats: Online, PDF
Civil Rights and Liberties
Rorie Spill Solberg, Kimberly Clairmont, Petar Jeknic, Sarah R. Mason, and Alexandria Metzdorf
2023
Licence: CC BY
This volume focuses on the constitutional doctrine and law in the areas of civil rights and liberties. It contains excerpts of landmark cases covering the first amendment, second amendment, fourteenth amendment and the right to privacy. The excerpts include the constitutional issues in these cases that are related to civil rights and liberties with other questions of law and dicta omitted.
Formats: Online, PDF, eBook
Constitutional Law for Students: Part 1 and Constitutional Law for Students: Part 2
Eshed Cohen, Scott Roberts, Abigail Stander, Geoffrey Allsop, Emily Cooper, Bongi Maseko (University of Cape Town)
2020
Licence: CC BY-SA
For students by students, to help navigate the complex world of Constitutional Law in South Africa. Constitutional Law is one of the most challenging courses in the LLB programme. This book aims to clarify concepts and increase understanding around the various aspects of Constitutional Law. Each chapter has a workbook to help prepare students. This book has been published open access to ensure that every law student and the public has access to it. This book has been designed to be as inclusive as possible with the addition of an audiobook format.
Formats: PDF, EPUB, HTML, Audio
eAccess to Justice
Karim Benyekhlef, Jane Bailey, Jacquelyn Burkell, and Fabien Gélinas
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Will digitization projects affect fundamental justice principles? Part I examines claims that technology will improve justice system efficiency with an emphasis on the complicated relationship between privacy and transparency. Part II examines the implementation of technologies in the justice system and the associated challenges and emphasizes that these technologies should be implemented with care to ensure the best possible outcome for access to a fair and effective justice system. The chapters in Part III adopt the standpoints of sociology, political theory and legal theory and provide a unique and valuable framework for thinking with the required sophistication about legal change (Description from University of Ottawa Press). This resource is an open access publication.
Formats: PDF
Suggested for: LGST 377
Fundamentals of Business Law
Melissa Randall and Community College of Denver Students
2020
Licence: CC BY
This book is an introductory survey of the legal topics required in undergraduate busin