This page is the doctrinal foundations layer. The Initiative’s four other Texas-corporate-law properties carry the dataset, the case-law corpus, the weekly publication, and the Fortune-50 case study. Each is one click away.
SMU CGI · Tracker
The Reincorporation Index
Locked event-study panel of post-Tornetta Delaware-outbound migrators with destination, effective date, vote, and 13F-coalition analytics; the Texas-destination cohort, the eight Tier-1 § 21.552(a)(3) incumbent adopters (as of the August 2026 dataset) (Southwest Airlines — the first identified federal enforcement — HeartSciences, South Plains Financial, Service Corporation, CenterPoint Energy, Legacy Housing, Caris Life Sciences, and Rush Enterprises), and the migrator adopters that elected the threshold on the way to Texas (Tesla, Dell Technologies, Dillard's, Eightco, Forward Industries, United States Antimony, Coinbase, and TTEC) are tracked here. Dell Technologies is both: the first verified § 21.373 adopter — implementing bylaws effective July 2, 2026, the day after its Delaware-to-Texas conversion took effect (approved June 25, 2026, with 96.89 percent of votes cast in favor) — and a § 21.552 elector at the 3% statutory ceiling. Item 5.07 vote results (accession 0001571996-26-000036); bylaws 8-K (accession 0001193125-26-296224).
https://tracker.smucgi.org/
SMU CGI · Roster
Texas-incumbent companies & § 21.552 adopters
The firm-level roster of Texas-incumbent listed corporations and the § 21.552(a)(3) adopters tracked for the cohort analysis — tier-1 EDGAR-verified, tier-2 inclusive.
https://tracker.smucgi.org/texas_companies.html
SMU CGI · Codex
The Texas Business Court Codex
Per-opinion explorer of the Texas Business Court’s opinion corpus, with division, posture, disposition, doctrine, and judge filters; the canonical case-law companion to this page.
https://smucgi.org/research/texas-business-court/dashboard/
SMU CGI · Publication
The Hilltop Docket
SMU CGI’s docket-monitor publication of new filings, hearings, and opinions in the Texas Business Court and the Fifteenth Court of Appeals.
https://smucgi.org/hilltop-docket/
SMU CGI · Brief
The ExxonMobil Redomestication Brief
Fortune-50 case study of the ExxonMobil New Jersey-to-Texas redomestication, with full statutory analysis (TBOC §§ 1.057, 21.419, 21.552), empirical analysis, and the May 27, 2026 shareholder-vote framing.
https://exxon-publication.pages.dev/
Closing synthesis
Texas’s corporate-law architecture is not a normative claim about Delaware. It is a structural alternative: a unified entity code, an express Texas-first source rule, a statutory business-judgment-rule codification, a statutory derivative-standing threshold, a statutory forum-selection authority, a statutory jury-waiver authority, and a specialized adjudicatory layer composed of the Business Court and the Fifteenth Court of Appeals. What Delaware allocates to more than 230 years of Chancery doctrine, Texas allocates to a TBOC chapter, a Government Code chapter, and a 2025 reform cycle. The open question — on which SMU CGI takes no position — is whether statutory clarity can supply the predictability and legitimacy that Delaware historically produced through accumulated common-law depth. The Reincorporation Index measures adoption; the TBC Codex measures adjudication; this page measures architecture.