Chapter 1 Company Law 1
Section One Corporate Personality 3
Case 1-1-1 Carte Blanche Pte.,Ltd.v.Diners Club International,Inc 4
Section Two Formation of Corporations 6
Case 1-2-1 American Vending Services,Inc.v.Morse 9
Section Three Corporate Finance 13
Case 1-3-1 Weston v.Weston Paper and Manufacturing Co 14
Case 1-3-2 State Ex Rel.Pillsbury v.Honeywell,Inc 16
Section Four Corporate Fiduciary Duties 18
Case 1-4-1 Shlensky v.Wrigley 20
Case 1-4-2 Klinicki v.Lundgren 22
Chapter 2 Contract Law 27
Section One Elements of a Contract 28
Case 2-1-1 Goldsworthy v.Brickell and Another 30
Case 2-1-2 Rosman v.Cuevas 32
Section Two Formation of a Contract 35
Case 2-2-1 Moulton v.Kershaw 37
Case 2-2-2 Detroit Football Co.v.Robinson 38
Case 2-2-3 Cantu v.Central Education Agency 39
Case 2-2-4 Columbia Hyundai,Inc.v.Carll Hyundai,Inc 41
Section Three Breach of Contract and Remedies 43
Case 2-3-1 White v.Benkowski 44
Case 2-3-2 Hadley v.Baxendale 45
Section Four Discharge of a Contract 49
Case 2-4-1 Krell v.Henry 50
Case 2-4-2 Transatlantic Financing Corp.v.United States of America 51
Case 2-4-3 Taylor v.Caldwell 55
Chapter 3 CISG 61
Section One Formation of a CISG Contract 63
Case 3-1-1 Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v.Boots Cash Chemists 65
Case 3-1-2 Filanto,S.p.A.v.Chilewich International Corp 67
Section Two Obligations of the Buyer and the Seller 70
Case 3-2-1 Welding Machine Case 70
Case 3-2-2 Fryer Holdings v.Liaoning MEC Group 75
Section Three Remedies for Breach of CISG Contract 81
Case 3-3-1 Delchi v.Rotorex 82
Case 3-3-2 Diesel Generator Case 83
Chapter 4 Law of Agency 87
Section One Agency Relationship 89
Case 4-1-1 Yeiverton v.Lamm 90
Case 4-1-2 Thayer v.Pacific Elec.Ry.Co 93
Section Two Internal Matters:Rights and Duties between Agent and Principal 96
Case 4-2-1 Kingsley Associates v.Moll PlastiCrafters,Inc 97
Case 4-2-2 Jeffrey Allen Industries,Inc.v.Sheldon F.Good & Co 99
Section Three External Matters:Rights of Third Parties 102
Case 4-3-1 Husky Industries v.Craig Industries 104
Case 4-3-2 Watteau v.Fenwick 106
Chapter 5 Negotiable Instrument Law 111
Section One What Is a Negotiable Instrument? 113
Case 5-1-1 Frank v.Hershey National Bank 114
Section Two Transfer of Negotiable Instruments 117
Case 5-2-1 Mott Grain Co.v.First National Bank & Trust Co 119
Case 5-2-2 C&N Contractors,Inc.v.Community Bancshares,Inc 121
Section Three Rights of Holders 123
Case 5-3-1 Money Mart Check Cashing Center,Inc.v.Epicycle Corp 125
Section Four Letter of Credit(L/C) 127
Case 5-4-1 Equitable Trust Co.of New York v.Dawson Partners Ltd 130
Case 5-4-2 Sztejn v.Henry Schroeder Banking Corp 133
Chapter 6 WTO Laws 137
Section One Anti-dumping Agreement 139
Case 6-1-1 Lighter Producers Win EU Anti-dumping Suit 140
Case 6-1-2 Australian Customs Dumping Notice-1998/20 142
Section Two Anti-subsidy Agreement 145
Case 6-2-1 Canadian Wheat Board v.United States 145
Case 6-2-2 Drill Pipe Case in Sino-US Trade 147
Section Three WTO Dispute Settlement Procedures 150
Case 6-3-1 Japan—Taxes on Alcoholic Beverages 151
Case 6-3-2 United States—Measures Affecting the Cross-Border Supply of Gambling and Betting Services 153
Case 6-3-3 United States—Measures Affecting Imports of Certain Passenger Vehicles and Light Truck Tyres from China 158
Chapter 7 Competition Law 165
Section One Unfair Competition Law 167
Case 7-1-1 Forest King's Case on Misleading Propaganda 168
Case 7-1-2 Commercial Bribery Cases Involving China and the US 170
Case 7-1-3 Re:the Jif Lemon Case 171
Section Two Anti-monopoly Laws 173
Case 7-2-1 Re:CIMC Case on Merger 174
Case 7-2-2 The Microsoft Case 178
Chapter 8 Electronic Commerce Law 187
Section One Legal Entities & Liability 189
Case 8-1-1 Viacom International,Inc.v.You Tube,Inc 190
Case 8-1-2 Zeran v.America Online,Inc 193
Section Two Privacy & Virtual Property Rights 197
Case 8-2-1 LiHongchen v.Beijing Arctic Ice Technology Development Co.,Ltd 198
Case 8-2-2 Dwyer v.American Express Co 199
Section Three Electronic Contracting 202
Case 8-3-1 Two Examples of Offer and Acceptance Online 203
Case 8-3-2 Specht v.Netscape Communications Corp 205
Section Four Electronic Signature 208
Case 8-4-1 Tommy Rosenfeld et al.v.Michael Zerneck 209
Case 8-4-2 City of London v.Caza 211
Section Five Intellectual Property 213
Case 8-5-1 Planned Parenthood Federation of America,Inc.v.Bucci 214
参考书目 220