Three new books from the pen of yours truly arrived in today's mail, all of which are available for adoption and use in 2012-2013 law school classes:
Business Associations: Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnership, and Corporations--Eighth Edition--with William Klein and Mark Ramseyer. Here's what the Foundation Press order page says about it:
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 planner¹s 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. Provide a teachers’ manual that goes into great depth, with analysis of every case and, whenever applicable, offering the disparate views of each author. An exhaustive teachers’ manual extensively discusses every case and provides answers to every question in the text. One feature that many adopters find especially helpful is that all three editors give their own approach to the cases, showing the different ways in which the same case can be taught. Annually updated PowerPoint slides cover almost all sections of the book and feature an extensive use of data, graphics, and photos.
Business Associations-Agency, Partnerships, LLCs and Corporations, Statutes and Rules--2012 edition--with Klein and Ramseyer. Here's what the order page says about it:
This statutory supplement includes statutes and rules relevant to all business entities. It is suitable for use with all textbooks and casebooks for such courses. It is includes all updates to the statutes and rules.
Mergers and Acquisitions--Third edition. Here's what Foundation Press has to say:
This text provides a concise statement of the the state corporate and federal securities laws governing mergers and acquisitions law designed for law students taking an advanced business law course such as mergers and acquisitions or corporate finance, lawyers practicing in corporate takeovers, and judges faced with cases arising out of such transactions. This thoroughly updated third edition features a considerably expanded treatment of practical aspects, such as drafting merger agreements, preparing disclosure documents, and dealing with takeover defenses.
I plan to use it as the principal text in my Mergers & Acqusitions class next year.
And don't forget these goodies:
