Business Associations

With the prior edition of this concise, up-to-date casebook having been adopted at over 100 law schools, the tenth edition preserves the authors' tradition of providing a comprehensive overview of agency, partnership, and corporation law. It also continues to emphasize five basic editorial principles:
Cases edited ruthlessly to produce a readable and concise result.
Facts matter, so they are included in all their potential ambiguity.
Bring a planner’s perspective to the table through extensive use of transactionally-oriented problems.
It’s a casebook not a treatise. No long, stultifying textual passages. Provide the cases and let the individual teacher use them as he or she sees fit.
Try to find cases that are fun to teach. Great facts or a clever analysis are always given first priority in case selection.

This edition reflects changes to the Model Business Corporation Act governing notice to shareholders. It also reflects the 2020 amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law regarding holding company mergers, indemnification and exculpation, record dates, and electronic communication.

This title covers the law of business associations for introductory courses, including agency, general partnerships, closely held corporations, publicly held corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and limited liability companies. The material on the unincorporated business forms has been revised, updated, and expanded to reflect the centrality of these forms of business organization in modern law practice and the economy generally. Among other state and model statutes, the Uniform LLC Act (2013), the Uniform Partnership Act (2013), the Uniform Limited Partnership Act (2013), the Third Restatement of Agency (2006), and the Model Business Corporation Act (2016) are discussed and cited. Amazon Description.

This statutory supplement is designed for use in law school courses covering agency, partnerships, corporations, and other limited liability entities. In particular, the supplement compiles the statutes, regulations, and uniform or model acts needed for the use of the casebook, The Law of Business Organizations: Cases, Materials, and Problems (14th ed. 2020), by Professors Jonathan R. Macey and Douglas K. Moll.