This page is the practitioner-facing face of a five-part research program. Each sibling property covers a different audience or methodological lane. The cross-links below are deep links to the substantive page or dashboard, not landing pages.
Empirical data
The Reincorporation Index
Live cohort tracker, event-study output, firm-by-firm dossiers. The empirical underbelly of the doctrinal analysis on this page.
tracker.smucgi.org
Opinion corpus
The Texas Business Court Codex
Full opinion corpus of the Texas Business Court, citation-coded and dashboard-rendered. Track the Business Court doctrine in real time.
smucgi.org/research/texas-business-court/dashboard/
Weekly publication
The Hilltop Docket
Curated commentary on the live Texas Business Court docket, plus the Texas / Nevada / Delaware governance lane. Practitioner-grade research.
smucgi.org/hilltop-docket/
Single-firm brief
The ExxonMobil Redomestication Brief
Full doctrinal and empirical treatment of the May 27, 2026 ExxonMobil shareholder vote on New Jersey to Texas reincorporation. Cohort exemplar.
exxon-publication.pages.dev
Doctrinal companion
Texas Corporate Law (TBOC) — sibling vertical
The doctrinal underbelly to this practitioner-facing page: full treatment of the Texas Business Organizations Code, the 2025 reform cycle, and the Business Court / Fifteenth Court of Appeals architecture.
smucgi.org/research/texas-corporate-law/
Proxy-advisor litigation
V04 Corporate Governance Foundations — SB 2337 timeline
The Texas proxy-advisor disclosure regime (TBOC ch. 6A, added by S.B. 2337) and the Glass Lewis v. Paxton / ISS v. Paxton preliminary injunctions (W.D. Tex. Aug. 29, 2025) (Albright, J.). Statute background, docket numbers, and Plain-English + Academic modal detail on the V04 post-Tornetta timeline.
smucgi.org/research/corporate-governance/s/questions-for-the-field/
One operating principle
Reincorporation is not risk elimination. It is risk migration. Counsel’s first task is to identify which claim, in which forum, under which state’s law, based on which accrual date, and under which charter / bylaw package. Maturity legends, lane diagrams, and Bluebook citations are tools for executing that triage with discipline. They do not substitute for it.
The 2025 reform cycle — SB 29, SB 1057, H.B. 40 in Texas; SB 21 in Delaware — and the December 19, 2025 Delaware Supreme Court reversal in In re Tesla together moved the doctrinal terrain materially. The page above was substantively verified on August 10, 2026 (v2.0) and will be updated as the Delaware Court of Chancery rules on the Dropbox pleading and as the Texas Business Court and Nevada Supreme Court resolve the open questions. Email sgoodwin@smu.edu for corrections, additions, or to be added to the dispatch list.