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250 sec. 001 - Business Associations (Spring 2025)
Instructor: Stavros Gadinis (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
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Units: 4
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
MTuTh 11:20 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Law 110
From January 13, 2025
To April 29, 2025
Course End: April 29, 2025
Class Number: 32388
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 62
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 85
As of: 02/15 11:55 PM
In virtually every area of legal practice, some knowledge about the laws governing business organizations (and particularly corporations) proves helpful. This survey course provides much of that orientation, examining the laws governing the modern business organization (with an emphasis on corporations). We will cover a number of topics, including rules of agency law, partnership law, corporate formation, corporate identity, rights of creditors, fiduciary duties, corporate governance, executive compensation, mergers, and acquisitions and securities fraud. At core, this is a survey course, so many topics we will discuss also have specialized courses offering a more detailed treatment. Consequently, our key goal will be to understand the structure of each topic, and how the topics interrelate and in particular how corporate law regulates relationships among multiple different constituencies of the firm, including owners, managers, creditors, employees, customers, and suppliers. Viewed in this light, the governance of a corporation implicates the same challenges and concerns that affect any multi-party economic relationship, ranging from problems of collective action, free riding, private information, distribution and opportunism. The laws governing business organizations constitute an important set of rules, institutions, and practices that regulate and address these concerns.
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Exam Notes: (F) In-class final exam
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Exam Length: 3 hours
Course Category: Business Law
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Books:
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- Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization
William T. Allen, Reinier Kraakman, Vikramaditya S. Khanna
Edition: 6 ed., 2021
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
ISBN: 9781543831016
e-Book Available: unknown
Price: $298.00
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