Corporations and Other Business Associations: Cases and Materials (Aspen Casebook)

This loose-leaf contains the same content and pagination as the casebook edition of Corporations and Other Business Associations: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edition, 9780735586024. The loose-leaf pages are 3-hole punched, collated, and in shrink wrap. The pages are not sold in a binder nor are they bound together in any way.

Honed through five editions, Corporations and Other Business Associations: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edition, continues to be the best choice for a casebook that is sophisticated, yet completely accessible. This popular book artfully balances economic and legal theory with a flexible organization, popular case selection, and engaging problems.

Along with a flexible organization that easily adapts to different teaching approaches, this casebook provides:

• a balance of theory, cases, and problems in which law and economic theory enriches the book without dominating its focus
• carefully edited and selected cases using a thoughtful blend of the classic and the contemporary
• excellent and ample problems that explore the practical applications of theory in the business world
• readable, straightforward writing that is sophisticated but doesnand#8217;t intimidate students
• outstanding coverage of LLCs and other business associations
• a comprehensive Teacherand#8217;s Manual, an annual statutory supplement, and Professor Thompsonand#8217;s website, http: //law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/thompson/corpcasebook, which offers PowerPoint slides, additional materials, illustrations, documents, and hyperlinks to cases

Thoroughly updated to reflect important recent events, the Sixth Edition presents:

• coverage of the maturing of LLCs in a new chapter (Chapter 6) that tracks the parallel questions of authority, fiduciary duty, and exit as seen in the partnership and close corporations chapters
• coverage of Delawareand#8217;s legislation to give shareholders more space in corporate decision making via bylaws
• discussion of the federal governmentand#8217;s attempt to push past Delaware in reforming corporate governance
  • SEC-proposed rulemaking on shareholder nomination of directors
  • Say on Pay contained in TARP for financial institutions and additional regulation of compensation by the Federal Reserve and the Special Master
• coverage of board duties of oversight after Caremark and in the context of the subprime mess
• material on critical Delaware interpretations of fiduciary duty
  • the meaning and lessened reach of good faith (Stone v. Ritter, Lyondell v. Ryan)
  • limiting common law shareholderand#8217;s ratification of interested director action in a fundamental corporate change context (Gantler v. Stephens)
  • express declaration of officer fiduciary duty (Ganteler v. Stephens)
  • disclosure obligations as a breach of fiduciary duty (Gantler v. Stephens, Topps Company shareholder litigation)
• coverage of changes after TelLabs regarding scienter, pleading, and causation

Corporations and Other Business Associations: Cases and Materials, Sixth Edition, provides unparalleled coverage of this complex area of the law using a comprehensible and engaging approach.

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