In this essay, Vice Chancellor Strine responds to Professor Bebchuk's proposal to empower stockholders to amend corporate charters. Critiquing that proposal from the perspective of a corporate law traditionalist, Strine notes that traditionalists will fear that the proposal will undermine...

The duties owed by independent directors of large corporations to monitor the corporation's affairs have never had more political salience. Given the Enron-era debacles, the recent meltdown in our nation's financial sector, the dependence of workers on equity investments to secure their...

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Margaret Levi, and Barry R. Weingast's excellent essay, Twentieth Century America as a Developing Country, Conflict, Institutional Change and the Evolution of Public Law, celebrates the period during which the National Labor Relations Act facilitated the peaceful...

Citizens United has been the subject of a great deal of commentary, but one important aspect of the decision that has not been explored in detail is the historical basis for Justice Scalia's claims in his concurring opinion that the majority holding is consistent with originalism. In this...

This article addresses what legal and financial advisors can do to conduct an M & A process in a manner that: i) promotes making better decisions; ii) reduces conflicts of interests and addresses those that exist more effectively; iii) accurately records what happened so that advisors and their...

Citizens United has been the subject of a great deal of commentary, but one important aspect of the decision that has not been explored in detail is the historical basis for Justice Scalia's claims in his concurring opinion that the majority holding is consistent with originalism. In this...

In this commentary, the authors examine the role of Smith v. Van Gorkom as part of a continuum of Delaware judicial decisions that gives insufficient weight to the substantive policy judgments underlying the gross negligence standard of review that governs whether corporate directors should be...

The past two decades have witnessed a vigorous continuation of the long-standing debate about the proper role of the corporation in our society. Recently, that debate has centered on the question of who -- the directors or the stockholders -- should have the ultimate power to decide whether the...

In this speech, Vice Chancellor Strine analyzes a corporate law hypothetical that (1) raises some of the tough ethical choices that must be made by legislators and judges forging the Delaware corporation law; (2) is designed to stimulate thought about the social role of the corporation in our...