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In recent months, a conversation has emerged as to whether Delaware should remain the favored state of incorporation for business entities. Indeed, many of our clients have asked us...

Few people in the world have the power to order around Elon Musk. One of them is a soft-spoken, small-town-raised, 44-year-old Delaware judge named Kathaleen McCormick. When the planet’s richest person tried to back out of buying Twitter in 2022, it was McCormick who stood in the way, taking a no-nonsense approach to a lawsuit that ended with Musk backing down and completing the deal. And last month, it was McCormick who issued a landmark ruling against Musk in a Tesla shareholder lawsuit...

'Terre D'Uva,' the Italian Canicattì Grape Festival

President Bill Clinton has proposed that the federal governmentreceive unprecedented power to invest more than $650 billion in the stock market over the next 15 years.

“[I]n the popular press and to the average citizen, ‘derivatives,’ much like speculation, has become a dirty word, hindering informed discussion.” —Roberta Romano, Maryland Law Review, 1996 The 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was Congress’s response to the 2008 financial crisis.[1] Titles VII and VIII of the act dramatically altered the way certain derivatives markets are regulated.

This post is based on a comment letter sent to the SEC by Stephen M. Bainbridge (UCLA), Jonathan Berk (Stanford), Sanjai Bhagat (Colorado), Bernard S. Black (Northwestern), William J. Carney (Emory), Lawrence A. Cunningham (GW), David J. Denis (Pittsburgh), Diane Denis (Pittsburgh), Charles M. Elson (Delaware), Jesse M. Fried (Harvard), Sean J. Griffith (Fordham), Jonathan […]

Yale Law School's Office of Student Affairs has removed all administrator profiles from its website "to protect staff members" in the wake of widespread outrage about the school's treatment of Trent Colbert, the second-year law student who invited classmates to his "trap house," according to a university spokeswoman.

Yale Law School dean Heather Gerken on Monday promised an investigation into the controversy surrounding Trent Colbert, the second-year law student and Federalist Society member who sent a lighthearted email inviting classmates to his "trap house."