This casebook provides intelligent comprehensive overview of business associations. It combines a well-defined examination of the Texas Business Organizations Code and the Restatement of Agency 3d to provide the reader with a clear presentation of the law of business organizations and its application to the kinds of problems lawyers are required to handle in their business practices. The authors focus on Texas law and cases and also provide perspectives and cases from leading jurisdictions throughout the United States. Each chapter is followed by thoughtful questions designed to engage the reader in critical analysis leading to resolution of the problems presented. Commentary throughout is presented clearly and concisely encouraging independent learning. The book is well suited for business associations classes.

When starting up an NGO the proper legal structure and registration of an organisation are fundamental to its credibility and survival. NGO Matters: A practical legal guide to starting up is a practical, systematic guide which provides founders, board members, donors, and advisors to NGOs with critical information on structures and registrations, explains key concepts and dispels some myths along the way. It also includes extracts from relevant legislation and forms, in one useful volume. Endorsed by Richard Rosenthal, a well-known legal advisor in the NGO sphere, this book will prove to be of great value not only to the "lay reader", but also to the professional lawyer or accountant who seeks to advise and assist clients on an area of the law with which all too few are familiar.

Taking a text, cases and materials approach, this is the first and only student textbook on European company law, providing an insight into the subject and shedding light on its future development. Textboxes for explanatory commentary, cases and materials - such as EU legislation, official documents and excerpts from scholarly papers - are clearly differentiated from the text, allowing the student to quickly identify sources. Each chapter also includes suggestions for further reading. Structured in seven parts, the book explores a diversity of topics, from what European company law is, the common rules for establishing, financing and accounting a company, and corporate governance, to the structure of the Societas Europaeca Statute, EU company law directives, capital markets and takeover law, and insolvency. An essential resource for the growing number of graduate courses on European company law, European business law, and comparative corporate law.