Cases and Materials on Corporations Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (American Casebook) [Hardcover]

Robert W. Hamilton (Author), Jonathan R. Macey (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0314180745 | ISBN-13: 978-0314180742 | Publication Date: July 18, 2007 | Edition: 10

Offering the traditional, solid approach of previous editions and now streamlined to include more topics for a one-semester course, Hamilton and Macey's Cases and Materials on Corporations covers the law of business associations and corporations for introductory courses. The book discusses all forms of business organization, including limited-liability companies, partnerships, closely held corporations, publicly held corporations, and novel business forms. It also covers transactions in shares by directors and others; indemnification and insurance; and federal securities law, including insider trading, corporate governance, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Updated to include new developments, the book covers topics such as Sarbanes-Oxley and more aggressive posturing of the Delaware judiciary, which was revealed for being just that after the important Disney decision; recent developments in asset protection for investors in limited liability companies; the Securities Litigation Uniform Securities Act; new regulations about full disclosure by registered publicly held companies; and the independence of auditors, dirctors and special litigation committees.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1099 pages
• Publisher: Thomson West; 10 edition (July 18, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0314180745
• ISBN-13: 978-0314180742
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.9 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #489,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not too bad for a casebook, July 29, 2005

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This review is from: Cases and Materials on Corporations Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (American Casebook) (Hardcover)

The structure could be better, but I do like how the book explains the rationales and policies in the notes between cases; it makes the cases themselves much more cognizable if you read the notes after the cases first.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Quite possibly the WORST textbook EVER, October 28, 2003

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This review is from: Cases and Materials on Corporations Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (American Casebook) (Hardcover)

If this book shows up on the syllabus for your Corporations class, run. There has never been a worse textbook published in the history of academia. The typos are beyond unacceptable. The flow of material makes no sense, and there is no commentary from the authors in between sections to explain why the authors seem to think the topics should be discussed in that order. The cases are incredibly badly edited. One example, out of too many to even count, is in the first case on the law of corporate directors' duty of care. The court's holding about which defendants should be liable is left in, but none of the facts about any of those defendants are in the book at all. Definitions are non-existent, and in the rare places where the authors do try to actually explain concepts, the text is full of errors and the explanations are badly written. Robert Hamilton and Jonathan Macey (the authors) should be ashamed of themselves. You'd be better off typing "business" into Westlaw or Lexis and learning it yourself.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly organized, out of date, long winded, January 18, 2007

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Lazarus Long "LL" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cases and Materials on Corporations Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (American Casebook) (Hardcover)

The book is poorly organized, out of date, and long winded. If you are a professor, look elsewhere. If you are a student who has to use this, try for used -- that way you won't feel so bad when you throw it away.