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   "text": "Delaware itself acknowledges the utility of unbundling statutes from adjudication, though not in its corporate law: its LLC statute specifically allows members or managers to agree in writing to arbitration of claims under the LLC agreement.",
   "abstract": "Delaware itself acknowledges the utility of unbundling statutes from adjudication, although not in its corporate law. In its LLC statute, Delaware specifically allows members or managers to agree in the LLC agreement, or in another writing, for arbitration of claims under the agreement.",
   "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": "Member States should provide in their corporate statutes an arbitration enabling provision allowing corporate charters to mandate arbitration of internal affairs disputes instead of adjudication in national courts.",
   "abstract": "Member States could specifically provide in their statutes an \"arbitration enabling provision\" allowing corporate charters to mandate arbitration of disputes over the internal affairs of the corporation instead of adjudication in national courts.",
   "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": "Unless the Member State of incorporation specifically provides in its corporate statute that arbitration is permissible when allowed in the charter or a shareholders agreement, investors run the risk that courts refuse to enforce the arbitration provision.",
   "abstract": "specifically provide in its corporate statute that arbitration is permissible if allowed in either the corporate charter or (for a closely held corporation) in a shareholders' agreement. Otherwise, investors run the risk that courts refuse to enforce the arbitration provision.",
   "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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