As you read this provocative collection of incisive refl ections on whether the corporate contract is keeping up with changing times, you might usefully refl ect on this question: Is corporate law scholarship keeping up with a rapidly changing world? This excellent gathering of thoughts from many of America’s leading corporate law scholars brought this question to my mind as I considered how some of our best minds have approached new dynamics from what largely seem to be the same perspectives that have long shaped academic corporate law thinking. Writing a foreword that does justice to such a diverse collection of provocative essays is a task, as an evidence treatise would say, beyond my ken. What you take from the essays will inevitably depend on your perspective, the mood you are in when you dig into them, and your openness to new ideas. Perhaps the only real service I can be to you, the reader, is to share a few reactions I had to the collection, with the idea that they may inspire you to consider how the various pieces, taken as a whole, might reveal some promising paths forward for new thinking and policy ideas.