Editor's Note:

This post comes to us from Leo E. Strine, Jr., Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, the Austin Wakeman Scott Lecturer on Law and a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance. This post is based on Chief Justice Strine’s recent essay, The Soviet Constitution Problem in Comparative Corporate Law: Testing the Proposition that European Corporate Law is More Stockholder Focused than U.S. Corporate Law, issued as Discussion Paper of the Program on Corporate Governance and forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Toward Common Sense and Common Ground? Reflections on the Shared Interests of Managers and Labor in a More Rational System of Corporate Governance, by Chief Justice Strine; and The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power, by Lucian Bebchuk.