Method · the standing rules behind this page
HOW WE WORK
V05 Corporate Law History is the literature-anchor for the whole umbrella; the rules below govern what can land in the eight phases above.
RULE 01
Primary sources only
Footnotes target primary venues where available — reporter cite, official court PDF, JSTOR / DOI / SSRN, journal repository, the Free Law Project’s CourtListener court-opinions repository, or open-access PDF. Practitioner alerts (Gibson Dunn, Morris James) appear only as supplemental confirmatory cross-references; the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance is treated as a scholarly venue.
RULE 02
Multi-link redundancy
Where multiple primary venues exist (JSTOR + DOI + SSRN + repository), the footnote lists all of them. The reader is never one link-rot away from losing the source.
RULE 03
Bluebook 21st citation
Volume, reporter abbreviation, first page, court, and year, with full author + title + journal block for academic works; pin-cites where the source is paged.
RULE 04
Version-stamped
Footnote numbering is stable across revisions; new works land at the next available number. Maffei v. Palkon (Del. 2025) and In re Tesla, Inc. Derivative Litig. (Del. Dec. 19, 2025) are tracked at the head of Phase 8. Last revision: 2026-08-04.