It was great to see many of you last week in Los Angeles for the National Business Law Scholars conference at UCLA Law. It was, as always, a positive whirlwind of activity. The array of panels and topics was, as usual impressive. The full agenda can be found here. Michael Dorff and his team did an amazing job of welcoming (and feeding!) us throughout the two days of sessions. As a former host of the conference, I know how tough that can be. We all owe them a debt of gratitude.

I was fortunate to be able to both participate in the opening plenary on the recent changes to Delaware corporate law and also present some of my research and ideas on ESG and corporate compliance.

In the former, I invoked Larry Hammermesh’s amazingly insightful 2006 article in the Columbia Law Review. If you haven’t ever–or recently–read it and are researching or writing about Delaware lawmaking, it is a “must read.” As I noted in the plenary session at the conference, Tennessee attempts to emulate the key parts of the process Larry describes as and when it can. In addition to sharing some of my own views about…