Business Organizations: Cases, Problems, and Context, Sixth Edition

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Authors

D. Gordon Smith
Cynthia A. Williams
Sung Eun (Summer) Kim

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728 pages

Publication Date

2026-09-15

Edition

Sixth Edition

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Business Organizations: Cases, Problems, and Context, Sixth Edition,offers a current and engaging approach to the study of business and business law by combining recent and classic cases, cutting edge topics, and problems-based teaching and learning.

Reflecting ongoing changes in the structure and regulation of modern business practice, Business Organizations: Cases, Problems, and Context offers a unique combination of doctrine, problems, and case studies. Recent, high-interest cases are balanced against classic teaching chestnuts, with brief, innovative problems used throughout. Recent Delaware Supreme Court decisions and a collaborative community of users support a clear and sustained examination of the role and purview of the law in business transactions.

New to the Sixth Edition:

Recent Delaware Supreme Court and Chancery Court cases, including:
- United Food and Commercial Workers Union and Participating Food Industry Employers Tri-State Pension Fund v. Zuckerberg et al. (unified demand futility standard)
- Tornetta v. Musk (entire fairness review)
- New Enterprise Associates 14, L.P. v. Rich (advance waiver of fiduciary duty claims)
New coverage of developing trends such as the implications of AI on corporate law and practice, prohibition of noncompete agreements, and the blurred boundaries between public and private entities
Consolidated and restructured fiduciary duty materials, combining care and loyalty into a single, cohesive chapter with classic and contemporary cases

Professors and students will benefit from:

A discriminating selection of fresh cases and classics
In-depth coverage of how the law applies to modern business structures and growth industries
Hybrid entities treated in detail, including a separate chapter on limited liability companies
Short problems after selected topics that give students practice applying the legal principles

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About the authors

D. Gordon Smith

Dean

Ira A. Fulton Chair and Professor of Law

D. Gordon Smith is the Ira A. Fulton Chair and Professor of Law at BYU Law School, where he served as dean from 2016 to 2023. Professor Smith writes principally about fiduciary law, law and entrepreneurship, and Delaware corporate law. He has published articles, casebooks, treatises, and monographs on these subjects. He co-founded the Law and Entrepreneurship Association and serves on the organizing committee of the Fiduciary Law Workshop. Before entering the academy, he clerked for Judge W. Eugene Davis on the Fifth Circuit and practiced corporate law in the Wilmington office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.

Cynthia Williams

Roscoe C. O’Byrne Chair in Law

MAURER SCHOOL OF LAW, INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Professor Cynthia Williams joined the Indiana University, Maurer School of Law as the Roscoe C. O’Byrne Chair in Law. Previously she taught at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Toronto, as the Osler Chair in Business Law. Before joining Osgoode, she was a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois College of Law, where she is an emerita Professor of Law, and, prior to that, she practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City in securities, mergers and acquisitions, and civil rights.

Professor Williams writes in the areas of securities law, corporate law, corporate responsibility, comparative corporate governance, and regulatory theory, often in interdisciplinary collaborations with professors in anthropology, economic sociology, and organizational psychology. Professor Williams’ work has been published in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Journal of Corporation Law, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, the University of New South Wales Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, the Academy of Management Review, the Corporate Governance International Review, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior, among others.

Professor Williams has lectured and taught in China, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and throughout Canada and the United States. Professor Williams also engages in policy work through her board membership in the Climate Bonds Initiative, a U.K. Charity established to create a new asset class, Climate Bonds, in order to finance the transition to a low-carbon economy; in the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative, a U.K.-based NGO evaluating the fiduciary obligations of directors and managers to incorporate climate change into strategies, oversight, and disclosure across twelve commonwealth and common-law countries, including the U.S.; and through her membership on the Global Future Council on Climate and Nature Governance of the World Economic Forum.

Sung Eun (Summer) Kim

Professor

University of California, Irvine, School of Law

Summer Kim is Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law (UCI Law). Professor Kim’s primary research and teaching interests are in corporate law, corporate governance, financial regulation, and contracts. Her scholarship examines how legal and market structures create and deepen inequities in our society, and her work aims to close these gaps.

Professor Kim is also the inaugural Faculty Director of the Korea Law Center at UCI Law and has served in this role since 2016. The mission of the Korea Law Center is to promote practical solutions to problems arising at the intersection of U.S. and Korean laws. In recognition of her service to the Korean community, Professor Kim received the Trailblazer Award from the Orange County Korean American Bar Association (OC KABA) in 2016.

Prior to law teaching, Professor Kim practiced law at Kirkland & Ellis and Shearman & Sterling, where she specialized in the areas of debt finance and capital markets. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude, from Seoul National University. She is a member of the New York and California bars.

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Sixth Edition

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2026-09-15

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