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   "text": "Forum unbundling is the arrangement in which the incorporation jurisdiction's statutes and interpretive case law are unbundled only from the adjudication services of its courts, so corporations may choose a different adjudicator in their charters.",
   "abstract": "The second alternative is \"forum unbundling\" in which the incorporation jurisdiction's statutes and interpretive caselaw are unbundled from the adjudication services of its courts. Corporations may in their charters choose an adjudicator other than the courts of the state of incorporation.",
   "citation": "Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681",
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   "text": "Choosing another Member State's courts as the forum can silently strip substantive rights: if the forum state treats an unavailable remedy such as money damages as procedural and refuses to hear the claim, the charter has opted out of substantive law of the state of incorporation that ordinarily could not be waived.",
   "abstract": "If so, the corporate charter, by selecting Member State B as a forum opts out of an important part of the substantive corporate law of Member State A, even if Member State A ordinarily does not allow corporate charters to opt out of suits for money damages.",
   "citation": "Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681",
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