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The 40th Annual F. G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law, named after my father, (I have an extra middle initial of “X”), will be held on April 9, 2026, at the Hotel duPont in Wilmington, Delaware. The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law and the Delaware Law School of Widener University continue to host and organize this annual event that brings corporate law scholars from around the country to share their insights. Prior annual lectures have been highlighted on these pages.

The topic this year is Beyond Approval: The Role of the Delaware Court of Chancery in Settlements of Fiduciary Litigation. The speaker is Gilda Sophia Prestipino, Judicial Law Clerk, Delaware Court of Chancery.

Free Breakfast starts at 8:00 a.m. and the Lecture begins at 8:45 a.m. Free one hour CLE

Registration is available at this link.

The 39th Annual F.G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law will be presented this year on March 20, 2025, at the Hotel DuPont. Named after my father, the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law at the Delaware Law School of Widener University continues to host and organize the event that brings leading corporate law scholars from around the country to share their insights. Prior Annual Pileggi Lectures have been highlighted on these pages.

This year’s lecturer will be Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr. of the George Washington University Law School. His topic will be “The Looming Threat of Nonbank Stablecoins”.

This year’s Lecturer is Professor Lisa Fairfax from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Details of the event on April 19 at the Hotel duPont in Wilmington, Delaware, are available at this link.

Hard to believe that when I started this idea while on the law review, it would still be going strong almost four decades later. Named after my father, the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law at the Delaware Law School of Widener University continues to host and organize the event that brings leading corporate law scholars from around the country to share their insights. Prior Annual Lectures have been highlighted on these pages.

Professor Lawrence A. Cunningham will present the 37th Annual F.G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law on Feb. 10, 2023 at the Hotel duPont in Wilmington, Delaware. Details are available at the Delaware Law School’s web site. The Lecture was named after the father of this blog’s primary author.

A short biography of Prof. Cunningham, information about how to rsvp, as well as a list of prior distinguished lecturers and the history of the lecture’s origin are also available at the above link.

Update: An overview of the good professor’s presentation was highlighted on the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog

The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, the law review of the Delaware Law School, provided a helpful overview of this year’s Lecture.

Prior lectures in this series have been highlighted on these pages.

The 36th Annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law (named after the father of this blog’s primary author), is presented by The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law of Widener University’s Delaware Law School

This year’s topic is

Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know

Professor J. S. Nelson
Visiting Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School
Associate Professor at Villanova Law School

Monday, April 25, 2022
8:00 a.m. Breakfast; 8:45 a.m. Lecture

Hotel DuPont, du Barry Room
11th and Market Streets
Wilmington, Delaware 19801

Many of the prior 35 Annual Distinguished Lectures have been highlighted on these pages.

One ethics CLE credit available in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The brochure is available at this link.

Online registration form available at delawarelaw.widener.edu/pileggi2022

For additional information or for accessibility and special needs requests, contact Carol Perrupato at caperrupato@widener.edu or 302-477-2178.

The 35th Annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law (named after the father of this blog’s primary author) will be held on:

Friday, November 8, 2019.

Registration and breakfast is at 8:00 a.m. at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware. The Annual Lecture begins at 8:45 a.m.

Download the brochure which also provides details for registration online. The law school’s summary of the event is available on their website.

Prior Annual Pileggi Lectures have been highlighted on these pages.

The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law at Delaware Law School, which handles the administrative aspects of this annual event, provides more information about prior speakers in the series on their website.

The 34th Annual F.G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law (named after my father) will be presented by Professor David A. Skeel, Jr., the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Details about the event on November 2, 2018, are at this link, and as follows:

Hotel du Pont, du Barry Room, 11th and Market Streets, Wilmington, Delaware 19801

Breakfast at 8:00 a.m. and lecture at 8:45 a.m.

One substantive CLE credit available in DE and PA and online registration available at   delawarelaw.widener.edu/pileggi2018

For additional information or for accessibility and special needs requests, contact Carol Perrupato at caperrupato@widener.edu or 302-477-2178.

Highlights of the annual lectures for several prior years have appeared on these pages.

The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law of Widener University Delaware Law School

presents the 33rd Annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law

Is Delaware Retreating?

Randall S.Thomas
John S. Beasley II Chair in Law and Business
Director, Law & Business Program
Professor of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management
Vanderbilt Law School

Friday, October 20, 2017

8:00 a.m. Breakfast; 8:45 a.m. Lecture

Hotel DuPont, du Barry Room
11th and Market Streets
Wilmington, Delaware 19801

Encore presentation 11 a.m.

Widener University Delaware Law School

One substantive CLE credit available in DE and PA

Register online here.

For additional information or for accessibility and special needs requests,
contact Carol Perrupato at caperrupato@widener.edu or 302-477-2178.

Prior Annual Pileggi Distinguished Lectures have been highlighted on these pages. This Lecture Series was funded by my late father, F.G. Pileggi, Esq., over 30 years ago when I was on the law review and was thinking of a vehicle to attract prominent scholars to contribute law review articles, based on their annual lectures.

Supplement: The PowerPoint slides from this year’s Lecture are now available .

The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law of Widener University Delaware Law School presents the 32nd Annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law

Can General Counsels be Independent: Resolving the Partner-Guardian Tension

Ben W. Heineman, Jr.
Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession and its Program on Corporate Governance; Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School; and former GE Senior Vice President—General Counsel

Friday, November 18, 2016
8:00 a.m. Breakfast; 8:45 a.m. Lecture
Hotel DuPont, du Barry Room
11th and Market Streets
Wilmington, Delaware 19801

Encore presentation 11 a.m.
Widener University Delaware Law School

One substantive CLE credit available in DE and PA
Online registration form available at above hyperlink
For additional information or for accessibility and special needs requests, contact Carol Perrupato at caperrupato@widener.edu or 302-477-2178.

Prior Lectures have been highlighted on these pages.

The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law
of Widener University Delaware Law School
presents the 31st Annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law

Title of Lecture: “Shareholder Activism: the Triumph of Delaware’s Board-Centered Model and the New Role for the Board of Directors”

Presented by: Professor Jeffrey N. Gordon
Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School;
Co-Director, Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy;
Co-Director, Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership; Co-Director, Center for Law and Economic Studies

Friday, October 16, 2015

8:00 a.m. Breakfast; 8:45 a.m. Lecture

Hotel DuPont, Green Room
11th and Market Streets
Wilmington, Delaware 19801

One substantive CLE credit available in DE and PA

Online registration form available at delawarelaw.widener.edu/pileggi2015

For additional information or for accessibility and special needs requests, contact Rose E. Callahan at recallahan@widener.edu or 302-477-2014.

Prior lectures in this series have been highlighted on these pages.