Enterprise Organization: Cases, Statutes, and Analysis on Licensing, Employment, Agency, Partnerships, Associations, and Corporations
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We have designed this coursebook for the purpose of introducing our students to the entire spectrum of private business organizations, with side glances at nonprofit organizations. We believe that the lawyers who graduate from our classes should be familiar not only with the corporate form of organization, which dominates big business, but also with the partnership form, in which many of them will participate personally, and with individual proprietorships, which far outnumber partnerships and corporations combined. This purpose has led us to look beyond the rules of law that are peculiar to the particular forms, to other rules that pervade the lives of enterprises. We have included an extensive exploration of agency in tort and contract, which is inescapably involved in nearly every contract between enterprises and the members of the public with whom they do business or to whom they cause harm. More briefly, we introduce the reader to the requirements of licensing and filing. We aspire not only to enlighten our readers about the rules of decision, but also to provoke serious explorations of the social and economic policies that are served, and sometimes disserved, by legal rules. Occasionally, we present different legal approaches that have been found compatible with prosperous economies in other industrialized societies. Like other instructors, we hope to stimulate our students to further inquiry by generous references to cases and analyses outside the central reading material, with laconic summaries of the points involved. We have found that these summaries are more enticing than unanswered questions followed by citations that give no indication of where the inquiry will lead. The materials of this book are drawn entirely from the companion volume on Enterprise Organization (third edition), and are offered in this form for those instructors who may wish to present a separate course on noncorporate organization or to use a separate text on corporation law. We have included in the coursebook for ready reference the texts of the Uniform Partnership Act and both the original and revised versions of the Uniform Limited Partnership Act. The present edition carries forward the approaches that have been welcomed by teachers in two preceding editions under this title, and three before them under the title of “Business Organization.” In areas where change has been notable, as for example in limited partnerships, we have substituted or added substantial quantities of new material. We hope the result will help future cohorts of lawyers to understand the legal structure of the organizations that conduct much of our economic life, and to promote not only the interests of their clients but also those of the nation.
Publication Date
1982
Edition
3
Recommended Citation
Conard, Alfred F.; Knauss, Robert L.; and Siegel, Stanley, "Enterprise Organization: Cases, Statutes, and Analysis on Licensing, Employment, Agency, Partnerships, Associations, and Corporations" (1982). Faculty Books & Edited Works. 666.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-books-edited-works/666
