Introduction
From: The Law of Partnerships and Corporations, 4/e
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This chapter examines the basic nature of a business and the interests of its stakeholders, and then looks at the essential elements of the law governing business organizations. Next,
the fundamental characteristics of the sole proprietorship, the partnership, and the corporation, as well as some other methods of carrying on business, such as joint ventures and franchises, are described.
Contributors
J. Anthony VanDuzer
J. Anthony VanDuzer, BA, LLB, LLM, is a full professor and former vice dean at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, of the University of Ottawa. He holds the Hyman Soloway Chair of Business and Trade Law at the law school and is an adjunct research professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. At the University of Ottawa, he teaches contracts and upper-year courses on domestic and international business law, and has received several teaching awards. He has also taught in the University of Ottawa’s Executive MBA program, at Queen’s University’s International Studies Centre, and at the faculties of law at the University of Muenster in Germany and the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Prior to his academic career, Professor VanDuzer worked as a corporate lawyer at Fasken.
