Talk:Corporate law/Archives/2017
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Corporate law, business associations law and commercial law
There seems to be a cross-jurisdictional disagreement as to whether corporate law (or business association law) is a part of commercial law, but it seems clear that corporate law is a significantly more narrow category. I've removed language from this article that seemed to fundamentally confuse corporate law with commercial law by including things like "trade law" and references to the UCC, which are clearly not part of corporate law.
There is still a redirect from "commercial law" to "corporate law", which seems entirely inappropriate, but "commercial law" should point to something. There is a good, if UK-centric outline of commercial law which covers the sort of topics one would expect in a broad discussion of commercial law.
There is no article discussing of business associations generally, and at present this article dips its toes into a number of areas that are really about "business associations" and not "corporations". Should this article either become strictly about corporations, or should it be renamed and fully embrace the full gamut of the law of business associations? (I favor the latter, but would like someone with more experience with Wikipedia to weigh in.) Salguod (talk) 17:15, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
We should rename outline of commercial law to commercial law just do it don't hesitate, by the way corporations are business associations.
We need an expert!
major rewrite necessary
This article is a complete mess and is in need of an expert or at least someone with a minimum of understanding of the topic. It defines its subject as a certain body of law and as the study of it and as part of what it calls "companies law", which is probably not even grammatically correct and would or should have an article of its own if corporate law were indeed "a part of a broader companies law" (sic). In fact, "companies law" is a redirect to itself, and the article is also a redirect from "corporations law".
The article also has other links to itself, which indicates more confusion in its scope and content, perhaps due to incorrect mergers or moves:
The most prominent kind of company, usually referred to as a "corporation", is a "juristic person", i.e. it has separate legal personality, and those who invest money into the business have limited liability for any losses the company makes, governed by corporate law. --Espoo (talk) 15:26, 19 November 2017 (UTC)