A recent law review article by a former Delaware corporate litigator, turned law professor, provides timely insights about recent developments in Delaware corporate law regarding the private enforcement of directors’ fiduciary duties. The article is based on a lecture that Professor Randall Thomas delivered a few months ago in Delaware (that is part of a
33rd Annual Distinguished Lecture in Law
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
In-House Counsel as CEO’s Partner
Ben W. Heineman Jr., the former General Counsel for General Electric Co. and now a Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School, presented the 32nd Annual F.G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law earlier this week, and as Frank Reynolds of Thomson Reuters writes, he talked about a book he recently published in which he argues
Annual Distinguished Lecture in Law
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
Board-Centered Approach to Activist Investors
Frank Reynolds of Thomson Reuters has written an article that provides a detailed synopsis of the presentation last 
week by Professor Jeffrey Gordon of Columbia Law School in which the good professor discusses the triumph of Delaware’s board-centered model in connection with activist investors. The speech was presented as the 31st Annual Francis G. Pileggi
31st Annual F.G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law
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,
30th Annual Distinguished Lecture in Law
Delaware and the Development of Corporate Governance
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.
Widener Law’s Annual Pileggi Lecture Considers “Delaware’s Choice”
Widener University School of Law announced that Guhan Subramanian, the Joseph Flom Professor of Law & Business at Harvard Law School, delivered the 2013 Annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law. This is the 29th year of this Lecture Series.
The title of this year’s lecture was, “Delaware’s Choice,” and was presented
28th Annual F.G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law
Professor Johnson’s presentation was entitled:
“Unsettled and Unsettling Issues in Corporate Law”
An abstract of his presentation follows:
This lecture revisits two fundamental issues in