<img src="/site/files/oldnewsfiles/2014PileggiLecture235px.jpg" width="235" height="200" class="FloatRight" alt="2014PileggiLecture235px">Widener University School of Law is pleased to announce that <a href="http://www.llm.law.cam.ac.uk/about-the-cambridge-llm-programme/professor-brian-cheffins.html">Brian R. Cheffins</a>, the S.J. Berwin Professor of Corporate Law at Cambridge University, will deliver the 2014 annual Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law. <br><br>Cheffins’ lecture, “Delaware and the Development of Corporate Governance,” happens <b>Friday, Oct. 17</b> in the <b>du Barry room of the Hotel du Pont</b> at 11th and Market Streets in Wilmington. Breakfast begins at <b>8 a.m.</b> and the hour-long talk at the hotel begins at <b>8:45 a.m</b>. He will give an encore version of the lecture to Delaware students at <b>11 a.m.</b> in <b>Polishook Hall room 203</b>.<br><br>Cheffins is expected to assess Delaware’s contributions to a corporate governance transformation that U.S. public companies have experienced over the last 40 years. The functioning of boards of directors, the operation of the market for corporate control, the configuration of executive pay and the nature of shareholder activism have all changed substantially since the mid-1970s. Cheffins will evaluate observer suggestions that developments in Delaware substantially affected the trends.<br><br>Cheffins began his academic career at the University of British Columbia. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2002 and has held visiting appointments at Duke University, Harvard University, Oxford University and Stanford University. He is a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute and has authored four books, and numerous articles and book chapters. <br><br>The annual Pileggi lecture is presented by Widener Law Delaware and the <a href="/CampusLife/ActivitiesandOrganizations/DelawareJournalofCorporateLaw.aspx">Delaware Journal of Corporate Law</a>. The series has attracted many renowned speakers in the area of corporate law since the first Pileggi lecture in 1986. This year’s program has been approved in Delaware for one continuing legal education credit (no ethics) and in Pennsylvania for one substantive continuing legal education credit (no ethics). <br><br>There is no cost to attend the breakfast or lecture. The event is made possible by the generosity of Francis G. Pileggi, a founding attorney of Pileggi &amp; Pileggi and father of Widener Law alumnus Francis G.X. Pileggi, who conceived of the idea through a desire to create a corporate law forum for practitioners, judges and academics.<br><br>Those interested in attending the breakfast lecture should <a href="/Spiffs/WidenerLawHighlights/Pileggi.aspx">register online</a>. Call 302.477.2014 or email Rose Callahan at <a href="mailto:recallahan@widener.edu">recallahan@widener.edu</a> with questions. Seating is limited.<br><br><a href="/About/standarddisclaimer.aspx">Standard disclaimer for external links</a><br>