Professor Stephen Bainbridge is a nationally-recognized corporate law scholar whose prolific scholarship is often cited in Delaware court opinions. His recently published essay entitled: Rethinking the Board of Directors: Getting Outside the Box, is an introduction to a symposium about his latest book. It includes the following abstract:

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In our new book, Outsourcing

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We have referred to Delaware legislative developments regarding benefit corporations previously on these pages, but a recent article in Forbes provides helpful background information about the history and genesis of the Delaware statutory provisions regarding this rather new aspect of Delaware corporate law. The article features a prominent Delaware lawyer who is a major…

A recent California law that requires public companies with their primary executive offices in California to have a minimum number of female directors, has been analyzed by nationally-prominent corporate law expert Prof. Stephen Bainbridge, who addresses several aspects of this new legislation–including how it fares when one applies the reasoning in several seminal Delaware…

A recent post on the Harvard Law School Corporate Law Blog, (on which I have published several articles as a “contributing author”) recently discussed a 2008 decision by Supreme Court Justice-Nominee Brett Kavanaugh, in Pirelli Armstrong Tire Corp. Retiree Med. Benefits Tr. ex rel. Fed. Nat. Mortg. Ass’n v. Raines, 534…

This is a guest post by Bernard S. Sharfman, who is the Chairman of the Main Street Investors Coalition Advisory Council and a member of the Journal of Corporation Law’s editorial advisory board

The Main Street Investors Coalition is the first organization trying to deal with a relatively new phenomenon that Professors Gilson and Gordon …

A recent law review article provides excellent scholarly insights regarding the interface among the equitable powers of the Court of Chancery and the provisions of the Delaware LLC Act and LLC operating agreements. The article by Professor Mohsen Manesh entitled: “Creature of Contract: a Half-Truth About LLCs,” appears in Volume 42 of the…

The current issue of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law features an article by Professors James D. Cox and Randall S. Thomas entitled: Delaware’s Retreat: Exploring Developing Fissures and Tectonic Shifts in Delaware Corporate Law, 42 Del. J. Corp. L. 323 (2018). The authors carefully review recent Delaware court decisions that have reduced the role…