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October 14, 2025 — “The Incorporation Wars: Delaware, Texas & Nevada—and the Future of Corporate Governance” is the provocative title of an NACD panel including Weinberg Center Director Lawrence Cunningham.
Event Details:
- Panel Title: The Incorporation Wars: Delaware, Texas & Nevada—and the Future of Corporate Governance
- Session Date & Time: Tuesday, October 14, 2025, from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm ET
- Conference Dates: Monday–Wednesday, October 13–15, 2025
- Location: Gaylord National Harbor, National Harbor, MD
Unrivaled Director Audience: The Summit convenes over 1,600 governance leaders—including board directors, audit chairs, general counsels, and CEO-level participants—spanning numerous industries and board types.
Session Overview:
Panel will explore the intensifying competition among Delaware, Texas, and Nevada to attract corporate charters—especially amid increasing talk of “DExit.” With thousands of directors and governance professionals in attendance, this panel will offer vital insights into how this dynamic may shift board priorities and corporate strategy.
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October 20, 2025 — Director Lawrence Cunningham will participate in the luncheon board roundtable discussion at the Eastern Regional Conference, an annual event of the Society for Corporate Governance, which will be held in person at Meta’s headquarters in Hudson Yards, New York City.
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Conversations with business and cultural pioneers about leadership and the transformation of their industries
October 27, 2025 — Goldman Sachs will host a Talks at GS forum featuring Lawrence Cunningham, Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance. He will be interviewed by John F. W. Rogers, Executive Vice President and member of the Goldman Sachs Management Committee.
The conversation will explore the legacy of John L. Weinberg—former Senior Partner of Goldman Sachs and founding benefactor of the Weinberg Center—with a focus on his contributions to corporate governance. The discussion will highlight the Center’s recent research, including the first-time publication of Mr. Weinberg’s 1948 Princeton thesis, Status and Functions of Corporate Directors.
Mr. Rogers, who worked closely with John L. Weinberg during their years at Goldman Sachs, will draw on personal insights to enrich the conversation. The interview will take place live at Goldman Sachs headquarters for employees, with a recorded version to be made available through the firm’s Talks at GS platform.
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The Weinberg Center has released its call for papers ahead of its 2026 IRRCi Research Paper Competition, an annual event on the scholarly corporate governance calendar.
2026 University of Delaware Weinberg Center/ECGI Corporate Governance Symposium and John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award Competition
The John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and the Department of Finance at the Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware, in collaboration with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), will host an in-person academic symposium on Friday, March 6, 2026. We welcome all submissions broadly related to corporate governance. Up to three papers included in the symposium will be selected to each receive the 2026 John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award and a $10,000 prize. For past symposium programs and award winners, please visit the research paper competition webpage.
Both academic and practitioner submissions for the research paper competition are welcome.
The deadline for paper submissions is midnight, Eastern Standard Time, November 16, 2025. There is a non-refundable submission fee of $100 per paper. Please pay the submission fee by visiting the registration webpage. (If the link does not work, please copy and paste this link in your browser.) Please submit your papers to Nicole Rich at Weinberg-corp-gov@udel.edu, together with a copy of your payment receipt.
John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper $10,000 Award Competition Guidelines/Procedures
This research competition is the successor to the IRRCi Investor Research Paper Award, which had become a prominent award garnering significant attention amongst the investment community, academia and policymakers. The John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Award, as its predecessor did, highlights innovative research.
Papers should be submitted using the following guidelines. Failure to comply with these guidelines may disqualify papers.
- Papers must not have been accepted for publication at the time of submission.
- Papers should be submitted with a cover page that includes the paper title, full name and affiliation of author(s), and a 100-250-word abstract.
- Please use the following format as the file name when you save your paper: Last name (all caps), underscore, shortened name of paper, period, pdf (e.g., DOE Shareholder Engagement.pdf).
If selected for the award or as a finalist, it is required that one of the paper’s authors be available to present the paper in-person at the Symposium on March 6, 2026.
General inquiries regarding the competition or the Symposium should be directed to Nicole Rich at Weinberg-corp-gov@udel.edu.
Please note that the selection of winners/finalists, if any, is at the sole discretion of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance. The Weinberg Center fully anticipates awarding up to three $10,000 prizes but reserves the right to select no papers as winners in the event papers submitted do not meet the above guidelines and/or the Center does not believe any paper is worthy of the award.
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Professor Cunningham to Speak on Delaware Franchise at Directors’ Institute
November 17, 2025—Delaware’s corporate franchise is on the agenda at PLI’s 23rd Annual Directors’ Institute on Corporate Governance in New York. Cunningham’s fellow panelists include Srinivas M. Raju of Richards, Layton & Finger; this year’s program is co-chaired by Catherine G. Dearlove of Richards, Layton & Finger.
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