Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (University Casebook) [Hardcover]

John C. Coffee (Author), Joel Seligman (Author), Hillary A. Sale (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2006 | ISBN-10: 1599411970 | ISBN-13: 978-1599411972 | Edition: 10

This casebook provides detailed information on securities regulation. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series®, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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University of Arizona --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1492 pages
• Publisher: Foundation Press; 10 edition (December 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599411970
• ISBN-13: 978-1599411972
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.5 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,423,931 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Who edited this???, January 31, 2008

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R. Patrick - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (University Casebook) (Hardcover)

I am in week 3 of my Securities Regulation class, and I am frustrated by the amount of errors in this book.
For example, on page 508, the book refers back to a case like this:
discussed at length in the Haupt case, supra at page __.
Page__. What is that? Did the editor not know they were supposed to fill in that blank with the correct page number?
Page 502, excess words: "The power to control, even if exercised, may constitute a person a controlling person."

When working through some of the problems, the questions referred back to the wrong problems.
Spelling errors, incorrect words, missing words, excess words....this book is annoying to read because of all of the errors. When dealing with a complicated subject, it is imperative that the book be easy to read.
Fire the proofreaders.
If any professors read this---please, please, please use another book.
This review is based on the 10th edition.Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (University Casebook)

5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Gold Standard on the Subject, March 14, 2004

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Paul McMeans (San Diego area, California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (University Casebook Series) (Hardcover)

This casebook by Professors Coffee and Seligman is the gold standard for the teaching of federal securities law. It is the successor to the casebook originally by Richard Jennings and Harold Marsh, both now deceased, which was used to teach the subject to the majority of securities lawyers now in practice. It includes a careful selection of materials revealing the progression of ideas in the field in most of the subjects of importance to students receiving an introduction to the law in this area. The cases are well selected, and serve as a compendium of the meat of the matter in all the important cases in the field that are cited in briefs filed in all types of litigation in this area and which guide the transactional lawyers through the thickets. I used this text in my original law school coursework, and found it in use later as I pursued an LL.M. degree in the area at NYU. As the field has undergone some major upheaval due to the scandals involving Enron, Global Crossing and the like, it is appropriate that Coffee and Seligman be listed as sole authors on the cover, although one can still see some of the flavor of the original work by Jennings and Marsh. It is a classic.

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the first choice, November 5, 2005

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S. Chiu - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (University Casebook Series) (Hardcover)

Authored by a real expert in the field, Securities Regulation is the best casebook on the market and would be the first choice for a law school securities class.