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Spring 2024

5421 Business Organizations - MOLL- 11080

Professor(s): Douglas Moll (FACULTY)

Credits: 4

Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law 

Time: 2:30p-4:30p  TTH  Location: 102A 

Course Outline: Business Organizations concerns the state and federal law applicable to partnerships, corporations, and other similar entities. In general, the course deals with the formation, operation, and dissolution of these various types of business enterprises. The readings focus upon the legal rights, privileges, and obligations associated with the entities themselves, as well as with their owners, directors, managers, and employees. Both doctrinal principles and policy underpinnings will be explored and emphasized throughout the class.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes: (Face-to-Face)  The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.



Prerequisites:  

First Day Assignments: For the first AND second class:

Class 1: Casebook 1-31

Class 2: Finish the material from Class 1, then Casebook 33-39 (before 2.)

Final Exam Schedule: 5/9/2024 2-5  102A  102B  

This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:


Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: Important (MEE)

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Available

Course Materials

Book(s) Required

Course Materials: Jonathan R. Macey & Douglas K. Moll, The Law of Business Organizations: Cases, Materials, and Problems (14th ed. 2020) (West Academic Publishing). This will be our casebook for the class. (2) Jonathan R. Macey & Douglas K. Moll, Statutory Supplement to The Law of Business Organizations: Cases, Materials, and Problems (14th ed. 2020) (West Academic Publishing).

Jonathan R. Macey & Douglas K. Moll, The Law of Business Organizations: Cases, Materials, and Problems (14th ed. 2020) (West Academic Publishing). This will be our casebook for the class.

(2) Jonathan R. Macey & Douglas K. Moll, Statutory Supplement to The Law of Business Organizations: Cases, Materials, and Problems (14th ed. 2020) (West Academic Publishing). This is the book of statutes that accompanies our casebook. Your casebook frequently refers to materials in this book of statutes. Be sure to read the statutory references as they are a critical component of the course.