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Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (University Casebook)

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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)

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.

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.