Cases and Materials on Corporations Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (American Casebook) 
asked by jazzman on November 27, 2006 10:42 PM
A number of changes in this edition reflect new developments such as changes in many large law firms due to major increases in entry level salaries for associates; important revisions in the Model Business Corporation Act; recent developments in asset-protection of limited liability companies; two important decisions in Delaware on the duties and liabilities of directors of publicly held companies; the enactment of the Securities Litigation Uniform Securities Act (SLUSA); the adoption of new regulations, Rule 10b-5-1 and 10b-5-2; and adoption of new regulations relating to full disclosure by registered publicly held companies (Regulation FD) and the independence of auditors.
Reviews
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.
reviewed by alec on November 29, 2006 7:34 PM
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.
reviewed by iread on November 29, 2006 7:36 PM
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.
reviewed by john316 on November 29, 2006 7:37 PM
