Melvin A Eisenberg

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Name Melvin Eisenberg Role Author

Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada People also search for Steven Burton, Lon L. Fuller, Jesse H. Choper, James D Cox, Richard L Marcus Books Contract Law: Selected, The nature of the common l, Corporations and Other Business, Structure of the Corporation, Gilbert Law Summaries
Education Harvard Law School (1959)

Melvin A. Eisenberg is the Jesse H Choper Professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. After studying at Columbia University (1956) and Harvard University (1959), he worked in the firm Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler, as assistant counsel in the Warren Commission, and joined Berkeley in 1966. He is recognised as a leading scholar in US corporate law, and contract law, in both of which he has authored leading textbooks.

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He has advised the American Law Institute on both the Restatement (Third) of Agency and Restatement (Third) of Restitution.

Publications

Books

Basic Contract Law (8th edn 2006)

Cases and Materials on Corporations & Other Business Organizations (9th edn)

Articles

'The Structure of Corporation Law' (1989) 89(7) Columbia Law Review 1461, arguing for a core of mandatory rules in corporate law

‘Legal Modes of Management Structure in the Modern Corporation: Officers, Directors, and Accountants’ (1975) 63 California Law Review 376

‘Access to the Corporate Proxy Machinery’ (1970) 83 Harvard Law Review 1489, argued that shareholders should have rights to initiate actions like a sale or merger or amending the certificate of incorporation without a prior board proposal.

References

Melvin A. Eisenberg Wikipedia

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