This and prior lists are available at the website of Professor Robert Thompson (Georgetown).  Here are the winners for 2020 (with academic affiliations, where authors have them):

Bartlett, Robert (Berkeley); Partnoy, Frank (Berkeley). The Misuse of Tobin's q.  73 Vand. L. Rev. 353-424 (2020).

Barzuza, Michal (Virginia); Curtis, Quinn (Virginia); Webber David H. (Boston University). Shareholder Value(s): Index Fund ESG Activism and the New Millennial Corporate Governance.  93 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1243-1322 (2020).

Cain, Matthew D. (Berkeley); Griffith, Sean J. (Fordham); Jackson, Jr., Robert J. (NYU); and Solomon, Steven Davidoff (Berkeley). Does Revlon Matter? An Empirical and Theoretical Study. 108 Cal. L. Rev. 1683-1731 (2020).

Ellias, Jared A. (UC Hastings); Stark, Robert J.  Bankruptcy Hardball. 108 Cal. L. Rev. 745-788 (2020).

Griffith, Sean J. (Fordham).  Deal Insurance: Representation and Warranty Insurance in Mergers and Acquisitions.  104 Minn. L. Rev. 1839-1920 (2020).

Hemphill, C. Scott (NYU); Kahan, Marcel (NYU). The Strategies of Anticompetitive Common Ownership.  129 Yale L. J. 1392- 1459 (2020).

Kahan, Marcel (NYU); Rock, Edward B. (NYU). Index Funds and Corporate Governance: Let Shareholders be Shareholders.  100 B.U. L. Rev. 1753 (2020).

Lipton, Ann M (Tulane). Not Everything Is about Investors: The Case for Mandatory Stakeholder Disclosure.  37 Yale J. on Reg. 499- 572 (2020).

Nili, Yaron (Wisconsin); Hwang, Cathy (Virginia). Shadow Governance. 108 Calif. L. Rev. 1097-1146 (2020).

Pollman, Elizabeth (Penn). Private Company Lies. 109 Geo. L.J. 353-403 (2020).

Subramanian, Guhan (Harvard); Zhao, Annie. Go-Shops Revisited. 133 Harv. L. Rev. 1215-1279 (2020).

Tuch, Andrew F (Wash U/St. Louis). Reassessing Self-Dealing: Between No Conflict and Fairness. 88 Fordham L. Rev. 939-998 (2019).