Business Scholarship Podcast

Anna Harvey , professor of politics at New York University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast Citizens United at 10 podcast symposium to discuss her article Does Money Have a Conservative Bias? Estimating the Causal Impact of Citizens United on State Legislative Preferences . In this article, Harvey and her co-author find that after Citizens United not only did states whose campaign-finance l...

Sarah Haan , associate professor of law at Washington & Lee 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 Voter Primacy and Shareholder Proposal Settlements and the Private Ordering of Public El...

Kent Greenfield , professor of law at Boston College, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast Citizens United at 10 podcast symposium to discuss his work on Citizens United and the decision's implications for corporate law, money in politics, and American democracy. Works discussed include Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It) . In addition to discussing his scholarship, Greenfi...

Elizabeth Pollman , professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her forthcoming article Startup Governance . In this article, Pollman offers a framework for understanding governance issues unique to startup firms, including complicated vertical and horizontal principal-agent conflicts that can accrete over multiple funding rounds. This epis...

Omari Scott Simmons , professor of business law at Wake Forest University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his forthcoming article Forgotten Gatekeepers: Executive Search Firms and Corporate Governance . In this article, Simmons introduces the history, role, and practice of executive-search firms (ESFs), firms that help companies source and recruit senior executives and directors...

Menesh Patel , acting professor of law at UC Davis, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his recent article Merger Breakups . In this article, Patel considers whether and when antitrust agencies should challenge consummated mergers that were previously reviewed and cleared through the Hart-Scott-Rodino process. This question in turn interacts with contemporary conversations about anti...

Jessica Erickson , professor of law at the University of Richmond, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Automating Securities Class Action Settlements . In the article, Erickson explores a contradiction in securities class-action settlements: although Civil Rule 23 defaults to opt-out class membership, the difficulty of identifying securities class members makes settlement...

Joseph Grundfest , professor of law and business at Stanford University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his recent article The Limits of Delaware Corporate Law: Internal Affairs, Federal Forum Provisions, and Sciabacucchi . He explains that the Chancery Court's Sciabacucchi decision erroneously held Securities Act claims to be external to a corporation's governance, meaning that...

Sarah Haan , associate professor of law at Washington and Lee University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Civil Rights and Shareholder Activism: SEC v. Medical Committee for Human Rights . Haan traces the civil-rights roots of shareholder activism and chronicles the legal history of SEC v. Medical Committee for Human Rights , a case stemming from activists' opposition...

Gina-Gail Fletcher , associate professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her forthcoming article Engineered Credit Default Swaps: Innovative or Manipulative? . Fletcher's article examines the phenomenon of engineered credit-default-swap transactions. In these transactions, CDS buyers or sellers induce borrowers either to default or avoi...

Gregory Shill , associate professor of law at the University of Iowa, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Should Law Subsidize Driving? . In this article and a companion piece in The Atlantic , Shill explores how law and policy subsidize driving as the dominant form of transportation. He explains that this subsidization hurts everyone in terms of auto-related deaths, nega...

Rory Van Loo , associate professor of law at Boston University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his recent article Regulatory Monitors: Policing Firms in the Compliance Era . He explains that regulatory agencies are not solely driven by enforcement and regulatory attorneys. Rather, large workforces of inspectors, examiners, engineers, and other professionals monitor firms day-to-...

Preeti Choudhary , associate professor of accounting at the University of Arizona, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her recent paper Auditors’ Quantitative Materiality Judgments: Properties and Implications for Financial Reporting Reliability . In this paper, Choudhary and her co-authors use PCAOB examination data to quantify auditors' materiality judgments. Their findings examine...

Ann Lipton , associate professor in business law at Tulane University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her recent article Not Everything is About Investors: The Case for Mandatory Stakeholder Disclosure . In this article, Lipton questions the use of securities filings for non-investor-centric disclosures and calls instead for disclosure by large enterprises that is rooted in soci...

Veronica Root Martinez , professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her recent article The Compliance Process . She explains why corporate compliance programs have focused on preventing and detecting legal violations yet miss the logical next steps of investigating and remediating them. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , a teaching...

John Coyle , professor of law at the University of North Carolina, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his recent article A Short History of the Choice-of-Law Clause . Coyle uses a historical survey of published cases and form books to trace the growth of the contractual choice-of-law clause from early domestic and commercial uses in the late 19th century through the adoption of the...

Jennifer Arlen , professor of law at New York University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her recent paper The Potential Promise and Perils of Introducing Deferred Prosecution Agreements Outside the U.S. In this paper, Arlen examines recent British and French efforts to introduce U.S.-style DPAs in corporate enforcement. She explains that although these efforts offer rule-of-law...

Yaron Nili , assistant professor of law at the University of Wisconsin, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his recent article Successor CEOs . In this article, Nili explores why combo CEO/chairs sometimes give up the CEO role but remain chair of the board of directors, versus the more common transition of a CEO/chair giving up the chair. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , a...

Claire Hill , professor of law at the University of Minnesota, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her recent article #MeToo and the Convergence of CSR and Profit Maximization . In this article, Hill explores the #MeToo movement's implications for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns and their potential convergence. This episo...

Benjamin Edwards , associate professor of law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Anthony Rickey , founder of Margrave Law LLC, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their recent article Uncovering the Hidden Conflicts in Securities Class Action Litigation: Lessons From the State Street Case . Edwards and Rickey examine potential plaintiff-side attorney conflicts in securities c...

Natasha Sarin , assistant professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her recent article Making Consumer Finance Work . Sarin analyzes the outcomes of three Dodd-Frank era reforms to explain when regulatory interventions work, when they lead to "whack-a-mole," and how the less wealthy subsidize other consumers in consumer finance markets. T...

Emily Kadens , professor of law at Northwestern University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her recent articles Cheating Pays and The Dark Side of Reputation . In these articles, Kadens uses archival records from litigation among 17th century English merchants to examine the limits of reputation as a tool for market discipline and sanction. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennin...

Robert Anderson , professor of law at Pepperdine University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his new article A Property Theory of Corporate Law . In this article, Anderson questions the contractarian theory of the corporation and explains why a property-based theory better accounts for some features of corporate law. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , a teaching fellow a...

Lev Menand , associate in law, lecturer in law, and postdoctoral fellow at Columbia Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his new paper The Monetary Basis of Bank Supervision . In our conversation, he situates bank supervision and its safety-and-soundness concept as being historically rooted in banks' role as creators of money. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , a...

Dorothy Lund , assistant professor of law at the University of Southern California, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her recent article Nonvoting Shares and Efficient Corporate Governance . In our conversation, she explains how nonvoting shares have the potential to enhance corporate governance and shareholder value. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , a teaching fellow an...