Business Scholarship Podcast

Yerv Melkonyan, a student at Columbia Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his forthcoming note Regulation Best Interest and the State – Agency Conflict . In this note, Melkonyan considers the potential for conflicts between the SEC's new standard for broker-dealer conduct and standards adopted by the states, including whether and, if so, to what degree, state standards ha...

Ann Eisenberg , assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her forthcoming article Economic Regulation and Rural America . In this article, Eisenberg identifies a cycle of deregulation as leading to a decline in rural infrastructure and amenities. She explains, though, that rural America still has much to offer the nation, whic...

Faith Stevelman , professor of law at New York Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her forthcoming article Boards in Information Governance . In this article, Stevelman and co-author Sarah Haan explain why the paradigm of the "monitoring" board is challenged by secular economic and technological trends. In its place, they identify an emerging paradigm, "information govern...

Megan Shaner , professor of law at the University of Oklahoma, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article The Corporate Chameleon . In this article, Shaner identifies the conceptual difficulty of identifying with certainty just who a corporation's "officers" are. In response to this difficulty, she proposes a prototype-centered definition of "officer" to aid courts, firms, and p...

Alexander Platt , Climenko Fellow and lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his forthcoming article Gatekeeping in the Dark: SEC Control over Private Securities Litigation Revisited . In this article, Platt considers the potential for SEC enforcement actions to catalyze "piggyback" litigation by private plaintiffs. To mitigate the potential for no...

Brian Frye , associate professor of law at the University of Kentucky, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his forthcoming article Against Deaccessioning Rules . In this article, Frye questions the bases for professional ethical rules that prohibit charitable art museums from selling works of art. Going further, as a matter of corporate governance, he explores situations in which mus...

Hilary Allen , associate professor of law at American University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her essay Experimental Strategies for Regulating Fintech . In this essay, Allen reviews the challenges of regulating financial innovation and proposes that to keep up, agencies must themselves innovate and adopt new technologies to support their regulatory functions, a concept she du...

David Hoffman , professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his forthcoming article Transactional Scripts in Contract Stacks . In this article, Hoffman and co-author Shaanan Coheny take a critical view of "self-executing" contractual scripts, which they describe as still susceptible to long-standing contract problems and doctrines. This epi...

J.W. Verret , associate professor of law at George Mason University, and Gregory Shill , associate professor of law at the University of Iowa, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss the 2020 crisis and congressional insider trading. Verret is the author of Applying Insider Trading Law to Congressmen, Government Officials, and the Political Intelligence Industry and Shill is the author of...

Daniel Schwarcz , professor of law at the University of Minnesota, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss the 2020 crisis and issues related to insurance coverage and regulation. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Nakita Cuttino , visiting assistant professor of law at Duke University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her forthcoming article The Rise of ‘Fringetech’: Regulatory Risks in Early Wage Access . In this article, Cuttino evaluates and considers regulatory challenges related to early-wage-access programs, a new generation of tech-enabled financial services targeted at low-income wo...

David Zaring , professor of business studies and legal ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss the 2020 crisis and the role of banking regulators in this crisis and crises more broadly. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Josephine Nelson , associate professor of law at Villanova University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her recent article Management Culture and Surveillance on critical issues and historical perspectives related to workplace surveillance. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Yonah Freemark , a PhD candidate in urban policy at MIT, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss the 2020 crisis, its impact on transit, and what should be done to preserve the economic role of transit. Guest co-host Gregory Shill , associate professor of law at the University of Iowa, joins host Andrew Jennings , a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Paul Mahoney , distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his forthcoming article Soft Dollars, Hard Choices: Reconciling US and EU Policies on Sell-Side Research . In this article, Mahoney discusses the quandary U.S. broker-dealers find themselves in with respect to the EU's MiFID II rule banning the bundling of brokerage servic...

Kevin Douglas , visiting assistant professor of law at George Mason University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his forthcoming article Michael Milken: A Case Study in America’s Moral Schism . In this article, Douglas explores the life and times of Michael Milken as a financier and financial innovator and uses the competing views on Milken's work as a case study for how Americans...

Tom Lin , professor of law at Temple University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his recent article Artificial Intelligence, Finance, and the Law . In this article, Lin explores the promises and opportunities of artificial intelligence in the financial sector, as well its risks and limitations, including bias, consumer harm, systemic risk, and financial accidents. This episode is...

Verity Winship , professor of law at the University of Illinois, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her new article Enforcement Networks . In this article, Winship presents an empirical network analysis of acknowledgments in SEC litigation and press releases. These acknowledgments shed light on how the SEC sources enforcement actions, including through referrals from the FBI, FINRA,...

Jeremy Kress , assistant professor of business law at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, and Matthew Turk , assistant professor of business law and ethics at Indiana University Kelly School of Business, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their forthcoming article Too Many to Fail: Against Community Bank Deregulation . In their article Kress and Turk identify myths ab...

Michael Cappucci, managing director for compliance and sustainable investing at Harvard Management Company, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his new paper The Proxy War against Proxy Advisors . In this paper, Cappucci traces the growing influence of proxy advisors and addresses common criticisms about their business practices, accuracy, and role within U.S. corporate governance. H...

Letian Zhang , assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his working paper Shaking Things Up: Unintended Consequences of Firm Acquisitions on Racial and Gender Inequality . In this paper, Zhang uses EEOC data to examine the effects of mergers on racial and gender equality in acquired companies. He finds that althoug...

Anne Tucker , associate professor of law at Georgia State University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast Citizens United at 10 podcast symposium to discuss her work on Citizens United and the decision's implications for corporate law, money in politics, and American democracy. Works discussed include Flawed Assumptions: A Corporate Law Analysis of Free Speech and Corporate Personhood in Citize...

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy , professor of law at Stetson University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast Citizens United at 10 podcast symposium to discuss her work on Citizens United and the decision's implications for corporate law, money in politics, and American democracy. Works discussed include Corporate Citizen? An Argument for the Separation of Corporation and State and Political Brands . I...

Michael Rocca , associate professor of political science at the University of New Mexico, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast Citizens United at 10 podcast symposium to discuss his articles The Effects of Citizens United on Corporate Spending in the 2012 Presidential Election and The Impact of Citizens United on Large Corporations and Their Employees . In these articles, Rocca and his co-author...

Elizabeth Pollman , professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast Citizens United at 10 podcast symposium to discuss her work on Citizens United and the decision's implications for corporate law, money in politics, and American democracy. Works discussed include Citizens Not United: The Lack of Stockholder Voluntariness in Corporate Political Speech , A...