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The Unabridged Twelfth Edition offers detailed information on corporate law and covers new principal cases, text, and explanatory materials designed to illustrate the development of corporate law. In preparing this edition, Professors Cox and Eisenberg reviewed all the principal cases and, where appropriate, re-edited them to tighten the writing while preserving a full-bodied presentation of the facts and discussion. The book contains rich note material synthesizing case developments, empirical data bearing on important corporate topics, and competing approaches to corporate issues.

Both the Unabridged and Concise Edition combine tightly edited cases while providing in many areas alternative cases so that the adopters, not the authors, control the choice of what will be the focus for the adopter’s class.


Imprint: Foundation Press
Series: University Casebook Series
Publication Date: 03/18/2019
Related Subject(s): Agency And Partnership

James D. Cox, Duke University School of Law

Melvin Aron Eisenberg, University of CA-Berkeley School of Law

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Changes in this edition include the following:

  • All cases have been reviewed for eliminating where it exists issues and discussion extraneous to the issues presented; as a result, most cases have been shortened and many substantially with the effect of enhancing their use in the classroom
  • The materials on LLCs have been substantially expanded to reflect the much richer body of case law and scholarly research that has developed
  • Cases and note materials in both partnership and LLC materials have been added bearing on limits of private ordering with close attention to the evolving meaning of good faith and scope of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing
  • Significant cases (e.g., Brinckerhoff, Gerber, RBC Capital Markets, Halliburton II, Salman, Volcano Corp., C&J Energy, and Corwin) and excerpts of articles dealing with cutting edge issues have been included in all subject areas
  • Chapter on the scope of Rule 10b-5 has been substantially reorganized to emphasize changes in the law
  • All note material has been reviewed, edited, and updated with recent developments
  • Note material is now arranged in numbered discrete subtopics for ease of reference in the classroom and assignments
  • All material reflects changes introduced by Dodd-Frank, the JOBS Act and SEC rules pursuant to those acts
  • Material expanded on the role and purpose of the corporation including issues surrounding Citizens United as well as benefit corporations

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