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Major Treatises by Topic

This guide lists major legal treatises, handbooks, hornbooks and guides by topic. It also lists important current awareness and reporting services for each topic.

Multi-Volume Treatises

Ebooks and Online Resources accessible to Case Law Users Only.

R. Franklin Balotti, & Jesse A. Finklestein, The Delaware Law of Corporations and Business Organizations (3d ed., 1997-date). Online: Westlaw. (3 volumes).

Jason C. Blackford, Blackford Business Organizations (2d ed., 2004-date). Online: Westlaw.  (3 volumes). Print: KFO210.B523 2004. (last updated 2019). 

Zolman Cavitch, Business Organizations with Tax Planning (4th ed., 1997-date). Online: LexisNexis. (16 volumes).

James D. Cox, Thomas Lee Hazen, & F. Hodge O'Neal, Treatise on the Law of Corporations (3d ed., 2010-date). Online: Westlaw. (3 volumes).

William M. Fletcher, Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations (Rev ed., 1931-date). Online: Westlaw. (20 volumes).

William M. Fletcher, Fletcher Corporation Forms Annotated (4th ed., 1972-date). Online: Westlaw.

William E. Knepper, Liability of Corporate Officers and Directors (7th ed., 2002-date). Online: LexisNexis. (2 volumes). Print: KF1423.K58 2002. (last updated 2019).

F. Hodge O'Neal & Robert B. Thompson, O'Neal and Thompson's Close Corporations and LLCs: Law and Practice (Rev. 3d ed., 1997-date). Online: Westlaw. (2 volumes).

Single-Volume Treatises/Hornbooks

Ebooks and Online Resources accessible to  Case  Law Users Only.

James D. Cox & Thomas Lee Hazen, Business Organizations Law (5th ed., 2020). Online: West Study Aids.

Franklin A. Gevurtz, Corporation Law (3d ed., 2021). Online: West Study Aids.

Joseph Shade, Business Associations in a Nutshell (3d ed., 2010). Print: KF 1355 .S452 2010Online: West Study Aids

Current Awareness & Looseleaf Services

Ebooks and Online Resources accessible to  Case  Law Users Only.

ABA Corporate Law. Online: ABA Law 

Bloomberg Law Corporate Law Practice Center Online: Bloomberg Law 

Bloomberg BNA Corporate Practice Portfolios. Bloomberg BNA: Corporate Practice Library. (60 volumes).