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Casebook Credits History Find
Corporations Spring 2023
First published Dec 2022 and updated Feb 2023
John Coates

This course is intended to convey

  • the basics of,
  • how courts handle, and
  • how “corporate lawyers” apply,

the most important laws relevant to the

  • creation,
  • financing,
  • governance and
  • operation of

business organizations, especially US public companies, i.e., the most important privately owned organizations in the world.

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