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Baude’s Book Selection

Will Baude reports that as he prepared for his exam in Business Organization, he relied on:

The Economic Structure of Corporate Law, by Easterbrook and Fischel, has been something like my bible throughout learning and studying for my exam. It is implausible in places, a little glib in others, but fundamentally a brilliant, brilliant book ....

Indeed, as I acknowledged in my review, Easterbrook & Fischel's book is a class in the field. (So much so that Kent Greenfield recently published a book that serves mainly as an extended progressive answer to E&F, about which much more in due course.) Candidly, I suspect Will made the right choice; Yale being more of a preparatory school for the legal academy rather than an actual law school. If you want to actually learn some law, however, you might want to consider Corporation Law and Economics.