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Corporate law sits at the heart of modern business, shaping how companies are created, governed, financed, and held accountable. Corporate Law of the United States offers a clear, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to this essential field, designed for readers who want both doctrinal depth and practical understanding. Written in an accessible textbook style, this book takes you through the full life cycle of the corporation, from formation and capital structure to corporate governance, fiduciary duties, mergers and acquisitions, insolvency, and the future of corporate regulation. It explains complex legal principles with clarity, grounding each topic in leading case law, statutory frameworks, and real-world governance challenges. Throughout, the book highlights the institutional role of courts, boards, shareholders, and regulators, showing how corporate law operates in practice rather than in abstraction. This book also engages with contemporary developments shaping corporate law today, including ESG and corporate social responsibility, compliance and enforcement, globalization, technological change, and evolving debates over corporate purpose. Through integrating traditional doctrine with modern challenges, it presents corporate law as a dynamic and evolving system central to the United States economy. Ideal for law students and anyone interested in exploring US company law, Corporate Law of the United States provides a structured and analytical foundation for studying and applying corporate law. Whether used as a primary textbook or a comprehensive reference, it will equip you with the tools to understand corporate power, assess governance decisions, and engage confidently with one of the most influential areas of modern law.

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