Each vertical is an active research program. Some are datasets with replication kits; others are doctrinal primers, historical essays, or live regulatory trackers.
The Reincorporation Index
Publicly traded U.S. firms that have changed state of incorporation since June 13, 2024 — the date of Tesla’s stockholder vote approving the Texas redomestication. Tracked movers: 63 firms in a 131-row dataset that adds a 59-firm Texas-incumbent § 21.552 reference panel. A small set of rows is retained for audit-trail continuity but excluded from Panel A. Event-study battery, doctrinal explainers, voting-coalition analysis, and per-firm publication subsites for the Texas-incumbent universe.
Firms in dataset
131
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Corporate Governance — Foundations
Reference primer on the law and economics of corporate governance — fiduciary duties of directors and officers, controlling-shareholder doctrine, board structure and committee architecture, the business-judgment rule, and the doctrinal framework that underlies every vertical in the Initiative. Plain-English framing alongside the academic literature, with primary-source citations to every operative case, statute, and SEC release. The doctrinal floor for the other nine verticals.
Format
Reference primer
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Corporate Law History
A century of state corporate-law competition — the rise of Delaware as the dominant chartering jurisdiction, the post-1980s race-to-the-top vs. race-to-the-bottom debate, the choice-of-law architecture under the internal-affairs doctrine, and the post-2024 Texas statutory amendments and their bearing on jurisdictional selection. Doctrinal evolution, jurisdictional incentives, and the modern landscape across eight phases from 1899 through 2026. Plain-English historical narrative with primary-source pin cites at every transition.
Format
Historical essay
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Texas Corporate Law (TBOC)
The Texas Business Organizations Code architecture for the 2024–2026 reform cycle — § 21.552 derivative-standing authorization, permitting listed or opt-in Texas corporations to impose, by charter, an ownership floor of up to 3% of outstanding shares as a precondition to derivative-suit standing; § 21.419 codified business-judgment rule; § 21.373 shareholder-proposal threshold; §§ 21.416(g), 21.4161 — special-committee independence pre-certification for transactions involving a controlling shareholder, director, or officer; § 2.115 exclusive Texas forum. First federal application of § 21.552 in Gusinsky v. Reynolds, No. 3:25-cv-01816-K (N.D. Tex. Mar. 17, 2026) (Kinkeade, J.). Companion treatment of H.B. 40 Business Court expansion and S.B. 2337 proxy-advisor regulation.
Format
Statutory reference
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Legal & Litigation Risk
Comparative-law landscape for Delaware → Texas and Delaware → Nevada migrants, and the New Jersey → Texas axis illustrated by ExxonMobil’s shareholder-approved redomestication (May 27, 2026). What TBOC, NRS Chapter 78, and the New Jersey Business Corporation Act change relative to DGCL across the core doctrines — Caremark oversight, MFW cleansing, Revlon scrutiny, derivative-suit standing, books-and-records, appraisal access, and four others. Practitioner-facing matrix; three-lane plaintiff/defense playbook; Maffei v. Palkon survival analysis.
Format
Comparative analysis
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The Texas Business Court Codex
Interactive dashboard for the Texas Business Court since its September 1, 2024 launch under H.B. 19, 88th Leg., R.S. (Tex. 2023), with integration into Civil Practice and Remedies Code procedural provisions under H.B. 40, 89th Leg., R.S. (Tex. 2025) (which integrated the Business Court into existing CPRC procedural references; and removed the sunset on additional Business Court divisions; activation of the six unfunded divisions awaits separate legislative funding). Per-opinion explorer with division, posture, disposition, doctrine, and judge filters; jurisdictional-threshold analysis; primary-source links to every opinion PDF.
Opinions cataloged
95 (live)
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Shareholder Franchise & Private Ordering
The 2024–2026 restructuring of the shareholder-governance channels across eight streams — shareholder proposals, precatory-proposal doctrine, the November 17, 2025 SEC Statement on Rule 14a-8, exempt solicitations, retail auto-voting, proxy-advisor regulation, mandatory arbitration, and proposal-exclusion litigation. Channels mapped include proposal access, ballot access, vote advice, vote execution, litigation forum, and courthouse access. Comparison of Texas statutory rules with Delaware practice and company-level private ordering anchors the analytical thesis.
Streams
8 active
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Proxy Advisors
ISS and Glass Lewis recommendation patterns and post-recommendation vote outcomes — director elections, say-on-pay, M&A, and bylaw/charter amendments. Methodology benchmarks, dissent-rate trackers, and a four-category conflict-of-interest taxonomy from issuer-paid consulting through the recommendation-conflict allegations in the May 20, 2026 Texas DTPA petition. Layer 05 live: regulation and litigation, including Texas S.B. 2337 / TBOC ch. 6A, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. v. Paxton, No. 1:25-cv-01160 (W.D. Tex. Aug. 29, 2025) (Albright, J.) (preliminary injunction), the May 20, 2026 Texas DTPA petition, and the ExxonMobil DEFA14A series.
Coverage
Regulation & litigation layer; empirical layers in progress
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Statutory Reform
State corporate-statute evolution in the 2024–2026 cycle. Delaware: S.B. 21 (signed March 25, 2025) codifying controller and conflicted-director safe harbors at DGCL § 144 and reforming books-and-records inspection at § 220; upheld in Rutledge v. Clearway Energy Grp. LLC, No. 248, 2025 (Del. Feb. 27, 2026) (en banc, unanimous). Nevada: A.B. 239 (signed and effective May 30, 2025) codifying the narrow controlling-stockholder duty at NRS § 78.240(3). Texas: S.B. 29, S.B. 1057, H.B. 40, S.B. 2337, S.B. 2411 — treated in V04. Federal: Division of Corporation Finance staff statement on Rule 14a-8 (Nov. 17, 2025) and 13D/G compliance phase-in.
Statutes tracked
Page live; statute sub-pages rolling
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Purpose of a Corporation
A century of authority on corporate purpose, 1919–2025 — from Dodge v. Ford Motor Co., 204 Mich. 459, 170 N.W. 668 (1919) through the Berle–Dodd debate, Milton Friedman’s A Friedman doctrine—The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, N.Y. Times Mag., Sept. 13, 1970, at 32, the Business Roundtable’s 1997 and 2019 purpose statements, the empirical audit by Lucian A. Bebchuk & Roberto Tallarita, Will Corporations Deliver Value to All Stakeholders?, 75 Vand. L. Rev. 1031 (2022), and the 2025 Delaware S.B. 21 / Texas S.B. 29 / S.B. 1057 reform cycle. Interactive timeline, 33-state constituency-statute grid, and the shareholder-primacy and stakeholder-governance theories side by side.
Format
Reference primer
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