Delaware and the Development of Corporate Governance
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The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law of Widener Law Delaware
presents the

30th Annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law
Delaware and the Development of Corporate Governance
Professor Brian R. Cheffins
S.J. Berwin Professor Corporate Law,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Friday, October 17, 2014
8:00 a.m. Breakfast; 8:45 a.m. Lecture

Hotel duPont, du Barry Room
11th and Market Streets
Wilmington, DE 19801

One substantive CLE credit available in Delaware and Pennsylvania.

Register online, or download the brochure and registration form as a pdf below and mail, email, or fax the form to Rose Callahan.

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For questions or inquiries, please contact Rose E. Callahan at 302-477-2014 or via email at recallahan@widener.edu.

Since 1998, Professor Brian R. Cheffins has been the S. J. Berwin Professor of Corporate Law at Cambridge University. He began his academic career at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Law, where he taught from 1986 to 1997. Professor Cheffins has held visiting appointments at Duke, Harvard, Oxford and Stanford and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2002. His primary research interests are corporate governance and corporate law, with particular reference to economic and historical aspects. Professor Cheffins is the author of Company Law: Theory, Structure and Operation (Oxford, 1997), The Trajectory of (Corporate Law) Scholarship (Cambridge, 2004) and Corporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed (Oxford, 2008).

In the 2014 Pileggi Lecture, entitled “Delaware and the Development of Corporate Governance,” Professor Cheffins will assess Delaware’s contribution to a corporate governance transformation U.S. public companies have experienced over the past 40 years. He will focus on various judgments handed down by Delaware’s courts that qualify as corporate governance landmarks while making the point that Delaware’s impact has varied from marginal to substantial depending on the era and the governance topic involved.

The article prepared in connection with the Annual Lecture will appear in the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law and is available on SSRN.

Prior Lectures in this series, at least for the last few years, were highlighted on these pages.

History of the Annual Pileggi Lecture
In 1985, Francis G.X. Pileggi, who was then the Internal Managing Editor for the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, envisioned creating a forum where practitioners, judges, and academics, distinguished in the area of corporate law, could speak directly to those most responsible for setting policy on corporate law in the United States—the Delaware bench and bar. Through his efforts and the generosity of his father, Francis G. Pileggi, the idea turned into reality. It continues today through the members of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law and the continued generosity of Francis G. Pileggi, a founding attorney of Pileggi & Pileggi.

UPDATE: Frank Reynolds of Thomson Reuters has written an excellent summary of the Lecture this year.