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Michal Barzuza is a Professor of Law at the
University of Virginia School of Law and the
Director of the John W. Glynn Jr. Law and Busi-
ness Program. Her scholarship studies the optimal
balance between regulation and laissez-faire in
corporate law, focusing on issues such as the effects of interstate
competition on the shape of corporate law, firm heterogeneity and
the choice of corporate governance terms, cross-listing, boardroom
dynamics, outside directors and the general counsel, and firms with
controlling shareholders. Her research analyzing Nevada’s attempt
to compete with Delaware over incorporations by offering lax law
was selected as one of the top 10 papers in corporate and securities
law for 2012 in a national survey of corporate law professors and
was reprinted in the Corporate Practice Commentator.
The Honorable Sam Glasscock III was appoint-
ed as Vice Chancellor in 2011 after having served
as Master in Chancery from 1999 to 2011. He
was born in Erie, PA and spent most of his youth
in Lewes, DE. He received a B.A. in History from
the University of Delaware in 1979, a J.D. from Duke University
in 1983 and a master’s degree in Marine Policy from the Universi-
ty of Delaware in 1989. Before coming to the Court of Chancery,
he worked as a judicial clerk, as an associate at Prickett,
Jones, Elliott, Kristol & Schnee in the litigation section, as a
| CONTRIBUTORS |
Superior Court special discovery master and as a Deputy Attorney
General in the Appeals Unit of the Department of Justice.
Ryan Lindsay is counsel at Chipman Brown
Cicero & Cole, LLP. He focuses his practice on
corporate and complex commercial litigation in
Delaware’s state and federal courts, including the
Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware
Supreme Court. His experience includes representing corporations,
alternative entities and their directors, officers and advisers in
merger and acquisition-related litigation, derivative suits, corpo-
rate statutory proceedings, federal securities litigation and other
stockholder disputes. His practice also involves advising corpora-
tions and their boards of directors on corporate governance matters
involving the Delaware General Corporation Law, the fiduciary
obligations of directors and officers, and other corporate law issues.
Ben Lucy is an associate with Abrams & Bayliss
LLP, where he practices corporate and commer-
cial litigation. He holds J.D. and M.B.A. degrees
from the University of Virginia. After clerking on
the Delaware Court of Chancery from 2020-
2022, Lucy worked in the Washington, D.C. office of a global
law firm, where the excellence of the Delaware counsel quickly
enticed him back to the First State.
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