Justice Jack Jacobs at Harvard Law School

Justice Jack Jacobs of the Delaware Supreme Court recently visited Harvard Law School for the second time this semester as the 2008 Distinguished Visiting Jurist of the Program on Corporate Governance.

A graduate of Harvard Law School (’67), Justice Jacobs practiced corporate and business litigation in Wilmington, Delaware before becoming Vice Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery in 1985. In 2003, he was appointed to the Delaware Supreme Court. In corporate law, Justice Jacobs is considered one of the preeminent judges of the nation. Most recently, he authored the Delaware Supreme Court’s landmark decision in CA v. AFSCME, which addressed key issues in the distribution of powers between boards and shareholders. On this blog, we have previously discussed this important decision here, here, and here.

At Harvard Law School, Justice Jacobs spoke about the CA v. AFSCME decision in the Corporate and Securities Law and Policy class of professors Lucian Bebchuk and Allen Ferrell, and in the Corporate Law A3 class of professor Guhan Subramanian. In his presentations, Justice Jacobs discussed the logic and implications of the opinion as well as the broader context of Delaware jurisprudence within which it was decided. A video of one of his presentation at Professor Subramanian’s class is available here.