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

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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.

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.

The book is poorly organized, out of date, and long winded.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.

I strongly suggest that purchasing a supplement is a wise choice if your prof uses this text for BA - I used the Nutshell by Hamilton (the same author of the text) - Very Helpful! Good luck in BA!

I'm sure this is a handy reference for people who know about corporations already. However, learning the law of corporations from this text is agonizing. There is no flow to the text; extracts are unhelpfully arranged without explanation.

Concepts are often given introductory explanation after you have already trudged through pages in which give the concept more in depth treatment. Inexplicably, much of the best information is in the footnotes.

If this is your required text, be prepared to do a lot of additional research to illuminate the content.

this book is maddening. it zigzags through material in an incomprehensible fashion. you have to work so hard to see which cases go together and how they go together. it certainly doesn't make it easy.

Hamilton has a Nutshell outline, which is okay. The Casenote Outline is quite good in my opinion.

Nearing completion of law school, this is the worst book I've had. Here's why:

1. Terrible Editing: The authors edit some of the cases down to the bare details about the issue, but then leave 6 pages in for a discussion about a motion by one of the parties that in no way relates to the issue, or even the topic of the class. LOTS of procedural stuff not edited out of cases that could have been. To quote and unknown (to me) source, "Sorry this letter is so long, I didn't have time to edit."

2. Non-Existent Notes: This is just a string of cases, no explanations by the authors or added insight. Seems to me they were trying to avoid doing more work. I guess this could be considered a plus if you hate to read and just care that no notes make the book shorter even if it means you don't learn anything.

3. TOO May Cases: At the expense of no notes that could easily synthesize a few smaller cases into a note, the authors choose to place the text of each case (albeit edited) in the book. Makes the readings un-necessarily long, often there are 2 or 3 cases that state the same rule while offering no additional insight distinct from the others. If you were thinking this book would be mercifully short after #2, sorry, it's not.

Students, I know you don't have a choice in books, but please, if you are a Business Associations Professor and happen to read this - steer clear and show your students that you care (hell, you've got to read it too, help yourself out).

Good to acquire when you study business law. It helps a lot in preparing exams and classes.

I am overall pleased with the purchase because of the deal I got on the book. I shouldn't even complain so I won't. All I will say is there was a little more highlighting and marking than I expected, but some of it is actually helpful so I guess that's a good thing. I would buy from this person again

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