Palmiter and Partnoy's CORPORATIONS: A Contemporary Approach By Alan R. Palmiter and Frank Partnoy ISBN: 978-0-31418-997-4 Click here to preview the first chapter. Click here to preview the fourth chapter. ABOUT THE BOOK This new Interactive Casebook brings corporate law to life for students by focusing on the role of corporations in contemporary society. The book features important and modern policy discussions and includes chapters on corporate social responsibility, externalities, and criminality. At the same time, the authors have made it easy for professors to teach from this book. It covers all of the major relevant cases, includes statutory materials in the text, and synthesizes useful note cases as illustrative examples. The book also covers basic financial concepts, including accounting, options, and executive compensation. Upon publication complimentary copies are sent to our current list of professors teaching in the associated subject area.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Alan R. Palmiter alan.palmiter@wfu.edu		Professor Alan R. Palmiter is a professor at Wake Forest University School of Law, where he has been for the past 23 years. He is the author of leading texts on corporate law and securities regulation. He has also written numerous articles in these fields, many garnering awards as the best articles of the year. Before becoming a law professor, he was a lawyer at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Washington, D.C
Frank Partnoy fpartnoy@sandiego.edu		Professor Frank Partnoy is the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he has taught for 12 years. He has written several books and several dozen articles, most recently in the University of Chicago Law Review and The Journal of Finance. He has also worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and as a corporate lawyer at Covington and Burling.