New Business Law Content Focuses on Critical Thinking to Enable Student Success in the Real World

In today's economy, competition for entry-level jobs is at an all-time high - college graduates must differentiate themselves to land the positions they desire. Companies can train recent college graduates and provide industry-specific skills, but students must already know how to think critically and understand business basics from a macro level to prove they are worthy of employment. These fundamental skills are some of the most difficult for faculty to teach and assess in the classroom.

Published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials helps students prepare for professional life by using a critical thinking model designed for students to use throughout the course and into their business careers. The text relates legal issues back to the core business curriculum, which helps students understand how legal concepts they learn in this course will tie into their own business careers. This technique also allows instructors to show students how business law is a fundamental component of the larger study of business administration. The text is authored by Nancy K. Kubasek, M. Neil Browne, Dan Herron, Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, and Linda Barkacs.

"Preparing business students for a successful future is a tremendous challenge, responsibility and opportunity for educators," said Kevin Kane, president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education's Business and Economics Group. "Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials provides students with the tools they need to become effective, strategic thinkers and to build a solid foundation of knowledge to prepare these students for their careers."

Using a consistent theme of ethical decision making, Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials outlines a reasoning model and ethical guidelines that make teaching Business Law concepts more memorable and applicable for students. Following each case, students can answer questions designed to train them to apply this approach.

Students can also develop and practice critical thinking skills using a supplemental digital component called You be the Judge Online. This interactive product includes 18 hypothetical business law scenarios on subjects such as Liability, Intellectual Property and Fraud, based on real cases within McGraw-Hill's Business Law material. Each case allows students to watch interviews of the plaintiff and defendant before the courtroom argument, see the courtroom proceedings, view relevant evidence, read actual cases relating to the issues in the case and then create their own ruling. After students' verdicts are generated, they can view the actual judge's ruling in the case, and either defend or change their own ruling.

Dynamic Business Law: The Essentials ties business law concepts to core business functions, which proves important as business students often do not understand how business law ties into their major. The text links concepts students are learning in business law back to what they are learning in their management, marketing, accounting, economics and finance classes so they can understand why basic legal concepts are crucial for any future business manager.

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