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Bill Allen
The Best Corporate Law Judge of His Generation
Twenty some years before Bill Allen was appointed Chancellor of Delaware, Bayless Manning, a fine corporate law scholar, announced the death of corporate law “as a field of intellectual effort.” Manning described its focus as “our great empty corporation statutes …
To Bill Allen: A Final Tribute
Last weekend the corporate legal community lost one of its finest: former Delaware Chancellor and Professor at New York University School of Law, William T. Allen. For 12 years Bill Allen and I served together as judicial colleagues on the …
A Judge With the Confidence to Go in New Directions
Bill Allen was an extraordinary person – a great judge who recalibrated Delaware fiduciary law at a critical junction in its history; an enthusiastic and enlightening teacher who engaged with students who were not even born when he had already …