Lawrence Cunningham is the new Director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. He is a prolific corporate law scholar and provides thought leadership on the perennial issue of Delaware’s role in the nation’s corporate law in a new article entitled: Delaware Corporate Law Still Gold Standard Amid ESG Blowbac
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Delaware’s Top Lawyers
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The current issue of Delaware Today magazine published this month a list of “Top Lawyers” in Delaware for various areas of the law. Yours truly was included in the list under the category of “corporate law”. (There was no separate category for corporate litigation.) Congrats to my fellow Delaware lawyers who were included in the…
11th Annual Delaware Firearms Law Seminar
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I should have posted this earlier, but I wanted to make some of the materials available that we presented at our annual seminar on the latest developments in Delaware on Second Amendment-related cases and the counterpart to the Second Amendment in the Delaware Constitution: Article I, Section 20.
A Musk Effect on Delaware?
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Much has been written regarding Elon Musk’s criticism of the State of Delaware and the decisions of its courts about him and his many successful business enterprises–and by extension the large number of other businesses impacted by Delaware law. In a broader sense, Musk’s criticism, and that of others, has generated discussion about the perennial…
AI and the Law
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The burgeoning impact of AI on the legal profession is akin to a large, approaching wave. Ignore it at your peril.
Lance Eliot is a prolific thought-leader on this topic. One of his many insightful articles on this subject is at this link.
Professor Bainbridge on Board Meetings via Electronic Communication
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One of the nation’s leading corporate law professors, Stephen Bainbridge, addresses on his eponymous blog, whether a board meeting may be conducted by text messaging alone, and concludes that DGCL section 141(i) requires that board members participating in a meeting must be able to hear each other. The good professor cites to his own law…
Former US Attorney General argues: Del. is at risk of losing its corporate law prominence due to ESG
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Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr wrote an article in today’s Wall Street Journal arguing: Delaware is at risk of losing its prominence in corporate law because of what the former U.S. Attorney General describes as the increasing infiltration into Delaware corporate law of ESG priorities, for example via Caremark claims.
Barr describes ESG as…
New Book on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
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U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Amul Thapar recently published a book entitled, “The People’s Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him.” This is not a book review. Rather, I just wanted readers to be aware of this exemplary new publication. The book should be read by those who seek…
Highlights of Prof. Bainbridge’s Latest Book, Called The Profit Motive: Defending Shareholder Value Maximization
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Regular readers of these pages over the last 18 years are familiar with one of the nation’s most prolific corporate law scholars: Professor Stephen Bainbridge, who is often cited in Delaware court decisions. His latest book weighs in on the latest craze in corporate law: ESG considerations in addition to the traditional focus on shareholder…
ESG; Corporate Governance; and The Profit Motive
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A new book by the prolific corporate law scholar, Prof. Stephen Bainbridge, who is often cited in Delaware court opinions, addresses the movement referred to as ESG: the “800-pound gorilla” in current developments in corporate law. The good professor contributes his prodigious expertise and lifelong scholarship in service of informing the public about this…