2024-2025 Weil, Gotshal & Manges Roundtable
Reading Materials

Paper Presentation I

Vincent S.J. Buccola & Marcel Kahan, Getting to Yes: The Role of Coercion in Debt Renegotiations (Jan. 2025).

Paper Presentation II

Adam B. Badawi & Robert Bartlett, ESG Overperformance? Assessing the Use of ESG Targets in Executive Compensation Plans (Feb. 2025).

Panel Discussion: Fiduciary Duties and the Contractarian Turn in Corporate Law

Act to Amend Title 8 of the Delaware Code Relating to the General Corporation Law, SS1 for SB 21, 153 General Assembly (2025).

UPDATED - Zohar Goshen, Assaf Hamdani, & Dorothy S. Lund, Fixing MFW: Fairness and Vision in Controller Self-Dealing (Apr. 2025).

W. Bentley MacLeod, Memo for the panel on “Fiduciary Duties and the Contractarian Turn in Corporate Law” (Mar. 2025).

Gabriel V. Rauterberg & Sarath Sanga, Altering Rules: The New Frontier for Corporate Governance (Jan. 2025).

Optional Panel Readings

Cases

Manti Holdings, LLC v. Authentix Acquisition Co., 261 A.3d 1199 (Del. 2021).

New Enter. Assocs. 14 LP v. Rich, 295 A.3d 520 (Del. Ch. 2023).

Tornetta v. Musk, 310 A.3d 430 (Del. Ch. 2024).

West Palm Beach Firefighters’ Pension Fund v. Moelis & Co., 311 A.3d 809 (Del. Ch. 2024).

Economics Papers and Book Chapters

Elliott Ash & W. Bentley MacLeod, Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts, 58 Journal of Law & Economics 863-913 (2015).

Adolf A. Berle & Gardiner C. Means, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, ix-xxxix (2d ed. 1991).

Oliver Hart, An Economist's Perspective on the Theory of the Firm, 89 Colum. L. Rev. 1757-1774 (1989).

Lewis A. Kornhauser & W. Bentley MacLeod, Contracts between legal persons, in The Handbook of Organizational Economics (Robert Gibbons & John Roberts eds. 2012).