LAW 801 - Business Organizations

1-4 cr

Description The course focuses on partnerships, agency law and corporations. The study of partnerships involves matters of formation, property rights, fiduciary duties, dissociation, dissolution, and liquidation. The study of agency law addresses employer/employee, master/servant, and independent contractors as applied to the law of contracts and vicarious tort liability. The study of corporations focuses on formation, piercing the corporate veil, fiduciary duties, management and control, financial matters, derivative litigation, public issuance of shares and the takeover movement.

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