Business Associations (LAW-611-001)
Effross
Meets: 09:00 AM - 10:50 AM (MW) - Room 602
Enrolled: 44 / Limit: 90
Notices
Attendance Policy
Students are required to attend 75% of regularly scheduled classes (i.e., classes held as scheduled at 9:00 - 10:50 a.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays and classes held during the law school’s official make-up days) in order to be permitted to take the final examination.
Description
The state laws governing business entities with an analysis of legal and business considerations, including basic tax questions leading to business associations in corporate and unincorporated form. Agency and judiciary principles applied to business associations are analyzed in relation to corporations and partnerships. Topics include the creation of general and limited partnerships; the relationship of the partners inter se, and of the partners and the partnership to third parties; the creation, form, and nature of the closely held corporation; rights and duties of shareholders, directors, and officers; rules relating to dividends and dissolution; and an introduction to applicable provisions of federal securities laws.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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First Class Readings
First Class Readings
Please pick up in the 6th Floor Student Lounge the set of distribution materials containing the Course Memorandum, Handout 1, and Syllabus #1.
For our first class (Monday, August 22), please read the Course Memorandum; Handout 1; pages 1-3 and 7-9 in the Hamilton casebook; and pages 3-10 and 193-194 of the Kleinberger book.