Organisations are at the heart of private law. This book takes an inspiring new look at them - broader and more fundamental than ever before, and from a highly innovative transactional perspective. Shawn Bayern has achieved nothing less than a rediscovery of the anatomy of organisations: A must read, especially for corporate lawyers! -- Florian Möslein, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany In A Research Agenda for Organizational Law, Professor Bayern takes a fresh look at relatively entrenched legal doctrine: the law of business associations. He finds this body of law significant, complex, and (in certain aspects) suboptimal. His precise, clear, suggestions for reform are responsive and realizable. A worthy read for policy makers, business law academics, and lawyers alike. -- Joan Heminway, The University of Tennessee, US Bayern is the Lewis Carrol of corporate law. Each step in the argument is commonsensical, but the journey somehow leads you through the looking glass. Take private ordering for example. LLCs have proliferated in recent years, even as courts have allowed waiver of once-mandatory corporate law rules. The virtue of this system is flexibility and its vice is that vulnerable individuals may find it even harder to protect their interests, right? Bayern shows the opposite, how the contractualization of organizational law may lead to a hardening of organizational structures often to the benefit of the least powerful members of our society. -- Andrew Verstein, UCLA School of Law, US
