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This post is from Lawrence A. Hamermesh of Widener University School of Law. This post is part of the Delaware law series, which is cosponsored by the Forum and Corporation Service Company; links to other posts in the series are available here.

On Friday, September 28, on the occasion of the Annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law, sponsored by Widener University Law School’s Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Harvard Law Professor Mark Roe presented his paper Does Delaware Compete?. The audience included leading Delaware lawyers and judges–both sitting and retired–eager to hear about the state of interstate corporate chartering competition. Yet, describing what he calls a “revisionist perspective,” Professor Roe argued that such competition no longer meaningfully exists: Delaware has won, and no other state is bothering to compete.

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