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Widener Law welcomed home one of Delaware’s own for the 2013 Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Law.<br><br>Guhan Subramanian, the Joseph Flom Professor of Law &amp; Business at Harvard Law School, gave the lecture Friday, Nov. 22 at a breakfast in the Hotel du Pont, Wilmington. He repeated the talk later that morning for students in Polishook Hall on the Delaware campus.<br><br>Subramanian, who also serves as the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at Harvard Business School, grew up in Hockessin, Del., the son of a father who worked for DuPont and a mother who worked for Wilmington Trust. He said he was pleased to return to the First State and join the distinguished list of 28 speakers who came before him.<br><br>“I’m deeply honored to give this lecture,” he said. “I’m humbled to be among them.”<br><br>Subramanian spoke about “Delaware’s Choice.” His remarks centered on the state’s antitakeover statute, its constitutionality and the merits of amending it to strengthen it against a possible legal challenge. <br><br>“We all know Delaware is the corporate law of this country and it’s important that we all get it right,” he said.<br><br>Delaware Court of Chancery Chancellor Leo E. Strine Jr., a long-time friend of Subramanian, introduced him at the breakfast. The men worked together in the office of then-U.S. Rep. Tom Carper in the 1980s. He lauded Subramanian as an intelligent scholar who cares deeply about his teaching.<br><br>“This is a very special lecture series and it really has brought to our state some of the most distinguished minds in corporate law,” Strine said.<br><br>Subramanian noted in his breakfast talk that his first academic article was published in the <a href="/CampusLife/ActivitiesandOrganizations/DelawareJournalofCorporateLaw.aspx">Delaware Journal of Corporate Law</a>. Later that morning, at Subramanian’s encore lecture for students, Journal Editor-in-Chief Brittany M. Giusini presented him with the journal edition that included his article.