Product Description

For senior undergraduate business, and law school courses in International Business Law.

This text emphasizes practical application and theory of international business law, with supplementary cases and readings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1966261 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 800 pages

From the Back Cover

Examining the law of international business from a worldwide perspective, this book is meant for introductory .and advanced business and law students. With extensive footnotes, excerpted cases, and supplementary online materials (at IntBusLaw.com), International Business Law is also a valuable reference for practitioners.

This book covers topics essential to understanding international business, from an examination of the role of international and comparative law, to the laws governing multinational enterprises; foreign investment; money and banking; and sales of goods, services, labor, intellectual property, transportation, financing, taxation, and dispute settlement. It describes the most important international organizations, from the Bank of International Settlements to the World Trade Organization, and it examines the important ethical issues of our times with readings and materials on topics such as:

• the cultural clash of civilizations,
• the debate over world climate change and the Kyoto Protocol,
• the regulation of genetically modified foods,
• the illegal movement of money,
• the human rights of workers,
• Third World challenges to intellectual property,
• the tax advantages of offshore reincorporation, and
• the pros and cons of globalization.

Customer Reviews

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This book is very good for students to study about international business law. I'm a graduate student and I believe that this is great if you haven't had any law classes previously and also good if you have had even international law. Great case collection and easy to read text.