Table of Contents:
  • The structure of legal rules
  • Introductory concepts in the law of agency
  • Binding principals to third parties (and vice versa) in contract and through information
  • Binding the principal in tort
  • Duties and obligations of agents and principals to each other and to third parties
  • Termination of the agency relationship
  • Distinguishing agency from other relationships
  • Introductory concepts in the law of general partnerships
  • Financial aspects of a partnership (creation and operation)
  • Management issues and fiduciary duties
  • The partner's right and power to bind the partnership
  • Partner dissociation and partnership dissolution
  • Limited partnerships
  • Introductory concepts in the history and law of limited liability companies, LLPs, and LLLPs
  • Creating the LLC
  • LLC governance and finance, member exit rights
  • Consequences of the churkendoose : unique issues of LLC law
  • Limited liability partnerships and limited liability limited partnerships
  • Agents of the good, servants of evil : Harry Potter and the law of agency.