Table of Contents

	1.	Economic and Legal Aspects of the Firm
	2.	Partnerships
	3.	The Corporate Form and the Specialized Roles of Shareholders, Directors, and Officers
	4.	Fiduciary Duty, Shareholder Litigation, and the Business Judgment Rule
	5.	Protecting Participants' Expectations in a Closely Held Business: Corporations and LLCs
	6.	The Corporation as a Device to Allocate Risk
	7.	Mergers and Other "Friendly" Control Transactions
	8.	Changes in Control: Hostile Acquisitions
	9.	Disclosure and Corporate Governance
	10.	Federal Regulation of Tender Offers
	11.	Insider Trading
	· SEC v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. · Chiarella v. United States · Dirks v. SEC · SEC v. Siebel · United States v. O'Hagan · Gollust v. Mendell · CBI Industries, Inc. v. Horton · Feder v. Martin Marietta Corp. · Insider Trading Depicted as a Pie Chart