Legal Research Guides by Course - Agency

Course Description

This course involves the study of the legal consequences that arise from the agency relationship, a relationship in which one person acts on behalf of another. Topics covered include creation of the agency relationship; the nature of the agency relationship; the concept of principal, agent, master, servant, and independent contractor; scope of employment; authority; rights and liabilities of principals and agents in relation to third parties; and rights and liabilities of the types of principals and agents to one another. (2 credits)

Faculty Who Teach This Course

• John T. Rago (Associate Professor of Law)
• Raymond F. Sekula (Professor of Law)

Subject Covered Presently in Collection by

Print Collection

KF920 Auction Sales
KF1314-KF1319 Vicarious Liability
KF1341-KF1348 Agency
KF2038.A8 Auction Houses
KF2042.R4 Real Estate Agents
KF2462 Air Freight Forwarders
KF2654 Ocean Freight Forwarders
KF2745 Forwarding Agents 
KFP202-KFP203 Pennsylvania Agency

Legal Research Databases

• Bloomberg Law
• Hein Online
• Legal Scholarship Network
• LLMC - Digital
• Lexis Advance
• Westlaw Next
• CALI - Agency - http://www.cali.org/search/apachesolr_search/agency
• Agency: an Overview (LII) - http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/agency
• Agency Law (hg.org) - http://www.hg.org/agency-law.html
• Pa Employment Agency Law - http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=552944&mode=2
• It's the Law - A Guide to Pennsylvania Real Estate Consumer Rights - Agency - http://membrane.com/philanet/benigno/pa_law.html
• Anatomy of An Agency Relationship - http://nanosft.com/igc/AnatomyofAnAgencyRelationship.html
• Agency (USLegal) - http://agency.uslegal.com/
• The Conglomerate Blog - Agency Law - http://www.theconglomerate.org/agency_law/

DCLI Webpage Links

• Primary Legal Research: Case Law, Statutory Law, Administrative Law, Constitutions (contains quick links to our statutes, our administrative codes, federal and state case law and our constitutions)

Course Listed Under the following Law School Concentrations

• Labor and Employment Law

Created by Patricia Horvath
rev. 2/4/2013