This book is aimed at corporate lawyers, academics, regulators, and judges. The leading corporate practitioners and academics who have contributed essays to this volume provide sophisticated analyses of what makes Delaware the leading source of corporate law and the challenges that Delaware faces from other states and the federal government.

1. Introduction Stephen M. Bainbridge; 2. Product differentiation in the market for corporate law: how to design a regulatory alternative to Delaware corporate law Sean Griffith; 3. Corporate charter competition Lynn LoPucki; 4. Delaware's dominance: a peculiar illustration of American federalism Robert Thompson; 5. The failure of federal incorporation law: a public choice perspective Sung Hui Kim; 6. Delaware and Santa Fe industries v. Green James Park; 7. Interest group analysis of Delaware law: the corporate opportunity doctrine as case study Stephen M. Bainbridge; 8. The trouble with Trulia: re-evaluating the case for fee-shifting William B. Chandler and Anthony Rickey; 9. Dominance by inaction: Delaware's long silence on corporate officers Lyman Johnson; 10. Delaware primacy for limited partnerships Christine Hurt; 11. Why Delaware has endured, should endure, and yet may not endure Charles Elson; 12. Delaware's continued resilience: the next hundred years A. Gilchrist Sparks.