Delaware Corporate Law Explained in Cartoons

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Francis Pileggi

Courtesy of Stu’s Views at www.stus.com (HT: Bainbridge), we bring you a cartoonist’s depiction of key decisions of the Delaware courts on corporate law that have been covered on this blog.

For example, in the Araneta case, summarized here, the following cartoon demonstrates the court’s scholarly analysis of certain board members "looking the other way" while others looted the company.

link here to other corporate cartoons

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