On Feb. 25, Eric Talley presented The Renewed (and Wild) Race in Corporate Law as part of the Center for Business Law faculty speaker series at the School of Law. Talley is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is an expert on the intersection of corporate law, governance, and finance. He also teaches and conducts research in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, quantitative methods, machine learning, contract and commercial law, alternative investments, game theory, and economic analysis of law.
Talley鈥檚 lecture focused on the current tumultuous state of Delaware corporate law with a focus on whether Delaware may be poised to lose its dominance in the field. He introduced the audience to recent legislative developments regarding Delaware corporate law. He then offered deep analysis of these developments and predictions for the future.
In discussing the lecture, Eric Chaffee noted, 鈥淭alley is a luminary in regard to the field of corporate law, and he has turned his gaze to the future of corporate law as we know it.鈥 He continued, 鈥淭he most impressive thing about his lecture was that it was not a rehash of past ideas or worn out thinking; Talley operates on the cutting edge of the business law field in an extraordinarily precise and thoughtful manner. The Center for Business Law was lucky to host him.鈥
The Center for Business Law, which is co-directed by Professors Juliet P. Kostritsky and Eric C. Chaffee, is an initiative to prepare future leaders to understand business issues facing business entities, engage in research on the role and impact of government in the regulation of business and to foster public debate regarding the role of government in the regulation of businesses. It is part of the robust business law curriculum at the School of Law.