William W. Cook's Written Work

In chronological order.

Cook, William W. A Treatise on the Law of Stock and Stockholders as Applicable to Railroad, Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Commercial, Business Turnpike, Bridge, Canal, and Other Private Corporations . New York : Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1887: 787 pgs.

———. "Remarks of Mr. William W. Cook before the [New York State] Senate Judiciary Committee, on the Civil Code,"; Albany Law Journal 35 (1887): 246-247.

———. Trusts: The recent combinations in trade, their character, legality and mode of organization, and the rights, duties and liabilities of their managers and certificate holders . 2nd ed., with supplement. New York, L.K. Strouse & Co., 1888: 113 pgs.

———. Corporations: As Created and Regulated by the Statutes and Constitutions of the Various States and Territories, also of the Federal Government, and of England, Canada, France, and Germany . New York: L.K. Strouse, 1889: 162 pgs.

———. A Treatise on Stock and Stockholders and General Corporation Law.  2nd ed. Chicago, Callaghan and Company, 1889: 1066 pgs.

———. The Corporation Problem: The Public Phases of Corporations, Their Uses, Abuses, Benefits, Dangers, Wealth, and Power, with a Discussion of the Social, Industrial, Economic, and Political Questions to Which They Have Given Rise.  New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1891: 262 pgs.

———. A Treatise on Stock and Stockholders, Bonds, Mortgages and General Corporation Law . 3rd ed. 2 vols. Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1894: 2068 pgs.

———. A Treatise on the Law of Corporations Having a Capital Stock . 4th ed. 3 vols. Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1898: 2783 pgs.

———. A Treatise on the Law of Corporations Having a Capital Stock . 5th ed. 3 vols. Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1903: 3359 pgs.

———. A Treatise on the Law of Corporations Having a Capital Stock . 6th ed. 4 vols. Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1908: 4309 pgs.

———. "A governmental railroad holding company," North American Review, 187 (1908): 886-897.

———. Cook's Railroad Pamphlets . N.p.: 1908-1923.
Note: reprints, original pamphlets, typed letters, etc., by Mr. Cook, together with 3 folded Senate bills; assembled and bound for Mr. Cook.

———. "Industrial democracy or monopoly? How American railways can be taken over for the people safely and easily," McClure's Magazine, Jan. 1912, 352-360.

———. A Treatise on the Law of Corporations Having a Capital Stock . 7th ed. 5 vols. Boston: Little Brown and Compnay, 1913: 4984 pgs.

———. "How to stop government ownership [of railroads]. New work for the Interstate Commerce Commission," Harper's Weekly, April 14, 1914, 21.

———. "A Bill for the Nationalization of Railroads," Michigan Law Review 14 (1915): 1 -13.

———. "A Plan for the Nationalization of Railroads,"Yale Law Review 24 (1915): 370-380
Note: Article was reprinted in The Engineering Magazine, June 1915, 411-414.

———. A Federal Railroad Board: A Series of Letters to the New York Sun . New York: n.p., 1916: 54 pgs.

———. William W. Cook to Hon. Francis G. Newlands, "A Proposed Solution of the Railroad Problem" . New York: October 24, 1917: 36 pages.

———. "Legal Possibilities of Federal Railroad Incorporation,"Yale Law Review 26 Yale (1917): 207-223.

———. The Railroads After the War . New York: n.p., 1918: 10 pgs.

———. Public control and low freight rates -- the two essentials of any solution of the railroad problem.  New York: n.p., 1919: 36 pgs.

———. A Solution of the Railroad Problem in Sight. New York: n.p., 1919: 30 pgs.

———. A Treatise on Telegraph Law . New York: Wm. Siegrist, inc., 1920: 237 pgs.

———. Will the Railroad Act of 1920 Solve the Railroad Problem? . New York: n.p., 1920: 17 pgs.

———. "The Legal Legislative and Economic Battle Over Railroad Rates,"Harvard Law Review 35 (1921): 30-46.

———. "Review of Modern democracies, by James Bryce," Michigan Law Review 8 (1921): 896-898.

———. "Stock Without Par Value," American Bar Association Journal 7 (1921): 534-537.

———. "'Watered stock'- Commissions - 'Blue sky laws' - Stock without par value," Michigan Law Review 19 (1921): 583-598.

———. "Note and comment: Constitutionality of the La Follette amendment to the Internal Revenue Law of 1921." Michigan Law Review 20 (1922): 527-530.

———. "Note and comment: The new "Lawyers’ [sic] Club"—Law school news," Michigan Law Review 20 (1922): 887-889.

———. "Note and comment: Taxation—internal revenue act," Michigan Law Review 20 (1922): 432-433.

———. "Power and Responsibility of the American Bar," American Bar Association Journal 8 (1922): 665-672, 687.

———. Power and Responsibility of American Bar . New York: Tudor Press., 1923: 47 pgs.

———. "The Corporation; A Little Essay Setting Forth the Many Important Services Performed by this Institution, which is Roundly Abused and Yet Trusted by Americans to the Farthest Limit," American Bar Association Journal 9 (1923): 502-503.

———. "The Law Book of the Future," Michigan Law Review 21 (1923): 365-511.

———. "The Mysterious Massachusetts Trust," American Bar Association Journal 9 (1923): 763-767.

———. A Treatise on the Law of Corporations Having a Capital Stock . 8th ed. 6 vols. New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1923: 5936 pgs.

———. "Some Constitutional Phases of the Cummins Railroad Consolidation Bill," Michigan Law Review 22 (1923-24): 579-581.

———. "Fraud and Ultra Vires in Reorganizations," American Bar Association Journal 10 (1924): 780-787, 866-869.

———. The Principles of Corporation Law . Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1925: 815 pgs.

———. "A Letter to the Lawyers Club (dedication papers)," Michigan Law Review 24 (1925): 34-38.

———. "Dedication of Lawyers Club Building at Ann Arbor," American Bar Association Journal 11 (1925): 537-539.

———. American Institutions and Their Preservation . New York: Norwood Press, 1927: 403 pgs.

———. "Legal Research; Statement of American Law is Greatest Problem Facing the Bar Today; Four Methods of Grappling with Problem which have been Presented; Criticism of American Law Institute Plan; Possibility of Combining this with the Halsbury Method," American Bar Association Journal 13 (1927): 281-285.

———. "The Law School and the State, a Communication Read at the Third Annual Founder’s Day Dinner, April 20, 1928," Michigan Law Review (1928): 843-845.

———. American Institutions and their Preservation . 2nd ed. 2 vols. New York: Norwood Press, 1929: xv, 833 p.

———. "A Letter to the Lawyers Club," Michigan Law Review 27 (1929): 921-926.

———. "A Letter to the Lawyers Club, Read at the Foundation [sic] Day Dinner, April 25, 1930," Michigan Law Review 28 (1930): 1003-1008.