V.C. Strine’s Path to Greatness
posted by Dave Hoffman
David Marcus has a tremendous article up about V.C. Leo Strine. Lots of tidbits I didn’t know, including the influence of Third Circuit Judge Stapleton on Strine’s views. Plus, there is this pretty fun quote from David Skeel:
“I have to imagine that what Strine learned from Stapleton was carefulness and judicial responsibility, and those are not the things you think of when you think of Leo,” says David Skeel, himself a former Stapleton clerk and now a corporate law professor at Penn. “You think of his being flamboyant and not keeping things close to the vest. But it’s also true that Leo is very careful and he doesn’t make dumb mistakes.”
Also, this on Chesapeake Corp. v. Shore:
“A Chesapeake v. Shore pours out of you like a clear mountain stream,” Strine says. “I had been thinking a lot as I decided the cases that came up about these various standards of review and seeing some of the frictions and the overlap.” Chesapeake raised precisely those questions, he continues. “The core parts of the standard of review flowed from my brain to my fingertips. When I went running, I would think about it, I would outline it in my head. You don’t have cases like that every year, or every third year.”
Like a mountain stream!
October 3, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Posted in: Corporate Law
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Lawrence Cunningham - October 3, 2008 at 4:15 pm
The linked story nicely summarzies Strine’s life and career to date and sketches out possible avenues just ahead. Does the word “greatness” in the title to this post refer to the path so far or the potential path ahead? Has Leo Strine achieved “greatness” or is the idea that he might do so someday? I’d have some trouble agreeing that he’s achieved “greatness” as yet.
dave hoffman - October 3, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I’d have some trouble agreeing that he’s achieved “greatness” as yet.
I’m not sure he’d agree!
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