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Delaware General Corporation Law

The dominant U.S. corporate statute for large corporations, often studied with Delaware fiduciary-duty case law.

Use It For

Use this alongside Caremark and Van Gorkom to compare statutory enabling rules with judge-made fiduciary standards.

Teaching Notes

Delaware is not a model to copy automatically; it is a pressure test for how flexible enabling statutes depend on litigation, markets, and professional practice.