Leo Strine

Leo E. Strine, Jr. is a former judge in the state of Delaware. He served as the Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court from 2014 to 2019. He is Of Counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and the Michael L. Wachter Distinguished Fellow in Law and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. In his judicial positions, Leo Strine wrote hundreds of opinions in the areas of corporate law, contract law, trusts and estates, criminal law, administrative law, and constitutional law. Notably, he authored the lead decision in the Delaware Supreme Court case holding that Delaware's death penalty statute was unconstitutional because it did not require the key findings necessary to impose a death sentence to be made by a unanimous jury. Throughout his judicial career and continuing to the present, Strine has taught various corporate law courses at top law schools, written prolifically in leading journals on how corporations affect society, and is one of most cited corporate law scholars.