250S sec. 001 - Business Associations (Summer 2025)
Instructor: Emily Strauss
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Units: 3
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
MTuWThF 10:10 AM - 12:45 PM
Location: Law 132
From June 30, 2025
To July 21, 2025
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In virtually every area of legal practice, some knowledge about the laws governing business organizations (and particularly corporations) proves helpful. This survey course provides such an orientation, examining the laws governing the modern business organization (with an emphasis on corporations). Topics range across rules of agency law, partnership law, corporate formation, corporate identity, fiduciary duties, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and securities fraud. As this is a survey course, many of the topics we discuss also have specialized courses offering a more detailed treatment. Consequently, our key goal will be to understand the rudimentary structure of each topic, and how the topics interrelate. In particular, this will include how corporate law regulates relationships among multiple different constituencies of the firm and how corporate law interacts with other areas of the law.
Emily Strauss is a professor at UC Law San Francisco and an expert in securities regulation, banking, and business law. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review, U.C. Irvine Law Review, Law & Contemporary Problems, and the Boston University Law Review, and has been cited in outlets such as Bloomberg and Reuters.
Prior to teaching law, Strauss was an attorney with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York. She was a member of the litigation department, and her practice focused on securities litigation and criminal and regulatory investigations, including fraud, antitrust, executive misconduct, and bribery-related matters. Previously, Strauss was Special Counsel at a nonprofit promoting the rule of law in developing countries.
Before law school, Strauss was a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa and a high school teacher in China. She is a member of the bars in New York and Massachusetts.
Exam Notes: (F) In-class final exam
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Course Category: Business Law
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