The Corporations Law Guidebook is your guide to the essentials of corporations law. Learn how to link the key concepts from your lectures, textbooks and tutorials to get the most from your study, improve your knowledge of law, and develop legal problem-solving skills.

This guidebook will help you navigate through the fundamental points of corporations law using:

• Clear and concise explanations of what you need to know
• Guidance on how to write essays and answer problems
• Cases, statutes, and sections to remember
• Active learning exercises and ‘think about it’ questions
• Diagrams of difficult concepts
• Assessment preparation sections
• Up-to-date cases and legislation.

How to…Learn from this Book

How to…Write Essays

How to…Answer Problems

PART ONE CORPORATIONS LAW IN CONTEXT

1. The Law

2.  How Did It Come to Be?

3.  Constitutionality

4.  Administration

PART TWO EXTERNAL MATTERS

5. The Entity

6. Capacities and Powers

7. As Debtor

8. Companies in Trouble

9. Liquidation

10. Paying in Order

11. Protecting Stakeholders and Society Generally

PART THREE INTERNAL MATTERS

12. The Decision-making Structure

13. Information

14. Control of Decisions

PART FOUR THE SECURITIES MARKET

15.  Regulation of the Industry

David Wishart: Senior Lecturer, La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University.