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Publication Language: English
Published: January 15, 2024
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
Canadian Corporate Law: Cases, Notes & Materials, 5th Edition provides a comprehensive, contextual analysis of the essential components of partnerships and corporations law to build a functional, working knowledge of the law pertaining to these business forms.
An accessible and authoritative casebook for the teaching of corporate law in all jurisdictions in Canada, this edition has been updated and reorganized by situating the fundamental elements of partnership and corporate law within the larger, paradigmatical debates over the legal roles and responsibilities of business in contemporary society.
Canadian Corporate Law: Cases, Notes & Materials, 5th Edition provides comprehensive treatment of foundational concepts that are critical to the operation of contemporary business organizations. These include extensive discussion of all forms of partnerships, agency principles, corporate criminal responsibility, corporate personality, managerial duties, and fiduciary duties applicable to general and limited partnerships and to corporate directors, officers, managers, and key employees.
This new edition includes more original commentary, enhanced discussion of partnerships and partnership fiduciary duties, corporate agency issues, and entirely new chapters providing for broader and more extensive coverage of corporate management’s duties, including the origins and contemporary implications of the business judgment rule, the corporate opportunity doctrine, and corporate management’s fiduciary duties.
What’s New In This Edition
Who Should Read This Book
TABLE OF CASES
CHAPTER 1: SOLE PROPRIETORSHIPS AND PARTNERSHIPS
CHAPTER 2: THE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION
CHAPTER 3: THE CORPORATE CONSTITUTION
CHAPTER 4: THE CORPORATION AS A LEGAL PERSON
CHAPTER 5: CORPORATE OBLIGATIONS
CHAPTER 6: INCORPORATION AND PRE-INCORPORATION TRANSACTIONS
CHAPTER 7: CORPORATE MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 8: MANAGERS’ FIDUCIARY OBLIGATIONS
CHAPTER 9: MAJORITY RULE
CHAPTER 10: MINORITY PROTECTION
CHAPTER 11: THE CORPORATE CAPITAL STRUCTURE
INDEX