The eighth edition of this concise, up-to-date casebook preserves the tradition of providing a comprehensive overview of agency, partnership, and corporation law. It continues to emphasize six basic editorial principles:
- Be lean but not mean; cases edited ruthlessly to produce a concise result
- Facts matter and are included in all their potential ambiguity
- Take a planner's perspective through extensive use of transactionally oriented problems
- It's a casebook, not a treatise; no long, stultifying textual passages
- Try to find cases that are fun to teach; great facts or a clever analysis have first priority in case selection
- Provide a teachers' manual that goes into depth, with analysis of every case offering the disparate views of each author
