Universal Bibliography/Law/Corporations

Type classification: this is a bibliography resource.

This page is part of a pan-jurisdictional bibliography of law. This part of the Universal Bibliography is a bibliography of the law of corporations.

This section includes, in particular, books on the law of corporations sole (which is not necessarily company law).

• Gordon and Ringe (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance. 2018.
• Fletcher Cyclopedia of the Law of Corporations
• Hamilton and Freer. The Law of Corporations in a Nutshell. 6th Ed: 2011: .
• Emanuel. Corporations and other Business Entities. (Emanuel Law Outlines). 8th Ed: 2020: .

• Soderquist on Corporate Law and Practice. 3rd Ed: 2007: . 4th Ed: 2012.

• Deutsch and Bianco. The Law of Corporations. 1976.
• White, William R. Law of Corporations. (Pace Business Law Series, unit 4). Pace & Pace. 1959.
• Ballantine on Corporations. 1927. 2nd Ed: 1946: .
• Ballantine's Manual of Corporation Law and Practice. 1930.
• Thompson on Corporations. Thompson and Thompson. Commentaries on the Law of Corporations. 3rd Ed: 1927: . Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations. 1895: . 2nd Ed: 1908: .
• Cook. The Principles of Corporation Law. 1925.
• Cook on Corporations. Cook on Corporations as affected by Statutes and Constitutions. 1889: . Review: .
• Cook on Corporations. Cook on Stock and Stockholders. 1887: . Cook on Stock and Stockholders and General Corporation Law. 2nd Ed: 1889: . A Treatise on the Law of Corporations having a Capital Stock. 4th Ed: 1898: . 5th Ed: 1903. 6th Ed: 1908. 7th Ed: 1913: . 8th Ed: 1923: . Commentary: .
• Machen. A Treatise on the Modern Law of Corporations. 1908.
• Carr. The General Principals of the Law of Corporations. 1905.
• Root on Corporations. Root's Corporation Laws. The Law of Corporations. 1872: . 4th Ed: 1890.
• Haviland on Corporations. 1890.
• Waterman on Corporations. 1888.
• Binmore. Corporator's Manual. 1881: . 2nd Ed: 1884.

• Overland. A Manual of Statutory Corporation Law.
• Cumming and Gilbert. Corporation Laws of all the States.
• Corbin's Corporation Laws. Corbin's New Jersey Corporation Laws. The Act Concerning Corporations in the State of New Jersey. 5th Ed: 1888. 7th Ed: 1892: . 14th Ed: 1908: .
• Freedley's Corporation Laws. General Corporation Laws of Pennsylvania. 1882: . 2nd Ed: 1890.
• Meredith's Corporation Laws of Pennsylvania. Corporation Laws. Formation and Regulation of Corporations in Pennsylvania.
• Watts' Corporation Laws. Watts' Missouri Corporation Laws. 1889. Review: . 3rd Ed: 1903.

• Brewer and Laubscher. Corporations other than Municipal. 2nd Ed: 1886.
• Southworth and Jones on Manufacturing and Business Corporations. 2nd Ed: 1890.
• Tucker on Business Corporations. 1883.
• McMaster. Certain Business Corporations. 1890.
• Hunt. Laws relating to Religious Corporations. 1882.

• Wait on Insolvent Corporations. 1888.

Australia

• Harris, Hargovan and Adams. Australian Corporate Law. 6th Ed: 2017. 5th Ed: 2016: . 3rd Ed: 2011. 2nd Ed: 2009.
• Bottomley, Hall, Spender and Nosworthy. Contemporary Australian Corporate Law. 1st Ed: 2018: . 2nd Ed: 2020: .

New Zealand

See Corporate law of New Zealand

Private corporations

• Kyd, Stewart. Kyd on Corporations. London. 1793 to 1794.
• Grant, James. Grant on Corporations. London: 1850: . Philadephia: 1854: .

• Taylor on Private Corporations. Law of Private Corporations. 2nd Ed: 1888. 3rd Ed: 1894: . 5th Ed: 1902.
• Clark and Marshall. Marshall on Private Corporations. 1901.
• Smith, W W. Smith on Private Corporations. 1889. Review: .
• Beach on Private Corporations. 1891.
• Morawetz on Private Corporations. 1882. 2nd Ed: 1886.
• Angell and Ames on Corporations. Angell and Ames on Private Corporations. 11th Ed: 1882.
• Boone on Corporations. 1882.
• Potter on Corporations. 1879. 1881: .
• Field, GW. Field on Corporations. Field on Private Corporations. 1877. 2nd Ed: 1883.

• Brice's Ultra Vires. Brice on Ultra Vires. 2nd Ed: 1877. 2nd American Ed: 1880.
  • Green's Edition of Brice on Ultra Vires.
• Thompson, S D. Thompson on Liability of Officers of Corporations. 1880.
• Thompson, S D. Thompson on Liability of Stockholders. 1879.
• Shirley, John M. The Dartmouth College Case. 1879.

• Benjamin V Abbott and Austin Abbott. Digest of the Law of Corporations. Volume 1. 1869. Volume 2: Supplementary Volume. 1879. Supplement: 1882: .

Cases

• Withrow and Binmore. American Corporation Cases. 1872 onwards.
• American and English Corporation Cases. 1884 onwards.

Cases and materials

• Coffee, Gilson, Quinn. Cases and Materials on Corporations. 9th Ed: 2022: . Choper, Coffee and Gilson. Cases and Materials on Corporations. Aspen Publishers. 7th Ed: 2008.
• Bauman. Corporations: Law and Policy: Materials and Problems. (American Casebook Series). 7th Ed: 2010: . Thomson-West. 5th Ed: 2005: . ISBN 9780314162052. 4th Ed: 1998: . 2001 Supplement. 2002 Supplement: .
• Cary and Eisenberg's Cases and Materials on Corporations. Cary. 4th Ed. 1977 Supplement: . 1978 Special Supplement: .
• Hamilton's Cases on Corporations.
• Jennings and Buxbaum's Cases and Materials on Corporations
• Henn. Cases and Materials on the Laws of Corporations. (American Casebook Series). 3rd Ed: 1974: .
• Prashker. Cases and Materials on the Law of Corporations. 2nd Ed: 1949: .
• Ballatine and Lattin. Cases and Materials on the Law of Corporations. 1939.
• Warren. Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Private Corporations. 2nd Ed: 1916:
• Wormser. Illustrative Cases on Corporations. 3rd Ed: 1916: .
• Tompkins. Cases on Corporations. 2nd Ed: 1903: .
• Shepard. Cases on Corporations. 1896.
• Smith, Walter Denton. Cases on the Law of Corporations. 1896.
• Cummings Cases on Corporations.

Manufacturing corporations

• John F Baker. Baker's New York Corporation Laws. Baker on Manufacturing Corporations in New York. 1876.
• Batchelder's Law of Massachusetts Manufacturing Corporations.  Manufacturing Corporations in Massachusetts. 1869.

Periodicals

• Australian Journal of Corporate Law