Spring 2025
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: First Day Assignment
Final Exam Schedule: 5/1/2025 2-6pm
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 (15th ed. 2024) (West Academic Publishing). This will be our casebook for the class.
Jonathan R. Macey & Douglas K. Moll, Statutory Supplement to The Law of Business Organizations: Cases, Materials, and Problems (15th ed. 2024) (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.
Please note: You will not be able to use ELECTRONIC versions of the textbooks or other assigned materials when taking the final exam with the exam software. Similarly, you will not be able to use ELECTRONIC versions of your outline, notes, or other study materials on the exam. PRINT copies of textbooks, other assigned materials, outlines, notes, or other study materials are fine and may be used on the exam.
