Good faith produces good procedures and good procedures produce good outcomes. These statements are descriptive of much of Delaware's corporate law as well as the Delaware courts' approach to fiduciary duties. In re Caremark International Inc., Derivative Litigation exemplifies this approach...

In re The Walt Disney Co. Derivative Litigation is notable for upholding the broad latitude courts afford to boards through the business judgment rule. The case addressed a $130 million termination package delivered to former Disney CEO, Michael Ovitz, after fourteen months of underperformance...

Though corporations are private actors, their choices, statements, and strategies do not occur in a vacuum — they are subject to public scrutiny. In spite of a desire to control a particular conversation, companies often fail to properly consider, and account for, the vetting and reframing...

This Chapter uses corporate law as a case study to evaluate the content of the fiduciary duty of good faith. Tracing its development from Van Gorkom through to the present, the Chapter shows how good faith, though part of the duty of loyalty, has become a gap-filler, policing the space between...

Amici are law and business professors who focus their teaching and scholarship on federal securities law, the financial markets and accounting. They submit this brief to clarify the contours of the modern securities market for the Court’s benefit, and explain how modern computing power and...

This article explores a series of rent-seeking behaviors and fiduciary deficits that are playing a role in the “growth” and demise of U.S. companies. Start-up financing occurs through exemptions that remove disclosure obligations required in public markets, assuming that private ordering...

The United States has experienced a financial crisis, a market crash, and a shift in the perception of America's place in the global economy. New financial reform legislation will increase the role of the government in the socalled private-law world of corporations and will press further on our...

This Article develops a construct of judges as gatekeepers in corporate and securities litigation, focusing on the last-period, or settlement stage of the cases. Many accounts of corporate scandals have focused on gatekeepers and the roles they played or, in some cases, abdicated. Corporate...