Business Associations: Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations

by William A. Klein, J. Mark Ramseyer, Stephen M. Bainbridge

With the prior edition of this concise, up-to-date casebook having been adopted at over 100 law schools, the eighth edition preserves the authors' tradition of providing a comprehensive overview of agency, partnership, and corporation law. It also continues to emphasize six basic editorial principles: Be lean but not mean, cases edited ruthlessly to produce a readable and concise result. Facts matter, so they are included in all their potential ambiguity. Bring a planner's perspective to the table through extensive use of transactionally-oriented problems. It's a casebook not a treatise. No long, stultifying textual passages. Provide the cases and let the individual teacher use them as he or she sees fit. Try to find cases that are fun to teach. Great facts or a clever analysis are always given first priority in case selection.

Genres: Law

Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[sologdin · Rating 1 out of 5]

probably fine, for a JD course--one of the courses that everyone should take in lawyer school.

[Johnny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most cases can be found on Legal databases such Lexis and Westlaw. Thus, I don't think this is a good coursebook. I personally dislike the idea of just posting case facts, notes, questions, but doesn't provide a good answer, which will help shape the internal logic of legal application.

Still, I enjoy the course in UW, so I gave it 3 stars.

BTW, we didn't cover 100% of the book in the lecture. Yet, probably 50+%.

[Cameron · Rating 1 out of 5]

It needs more commentary in between cases. A little too bare bones. I could have just have just used the table of contents and westlaw.

[Alison Vaughan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did the unhelpful thing where it asks you questions at the end of the cases instead of explaining the information

[Steven · Rating 2 out of 5]

No class was more difficult for a political science major in law school with little understanding of the MBA world than Business Associations. I don't believe that this casebook helped at all. Another monster that would be a struggle to carry with one hand.

[Beth · Rating 2 out of 5]

:(

[Annette · Rating 4 out of 5]

In retrospect, this was a pretty concise case book.

[Lynzey · Rating 1 out of 5]

Steer clear of Bubba's Burritos AND casebooks.

This is partly a joke, but partly the sad reality of my life. Please suggest good reads for me to take up after law school.