Business Scholarship Podcast

Brett McDonnell , professor of law at the University of Minnesota, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Stakeholder Engagement . In this article McDonnell examines how public companies engage with their non-shareholder stakeholders, including employees and civil society. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, with editing by...

Stephen Bainbridge , professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his new book The Profit Motive: Defending Shareholder Value Maximization . This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School.

Elise Maizel , acting assistant professor of lawyering at New York University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article The Case for Downsizing the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege . In this article, Maizel offers a comparative and historical analysis of the corporate attorney-client privilege versus the more familiar privilege enjoyed by individual clients. She finds the c...

Caleb Griffin , assistant professor of law at the University of Arkansas, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Humanizing Corporate Governance . In this article Griffin investigates the voting preferences of retail investors in intermediated funds and presents results from an original survey study. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , assistant professor at Brooklyn...

Vijay Raghavan , assistant professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article The Case Against the Debt Tax . In this article Raghavan challenges the bases for treating forgiven consumer debt as taxable income, including student-loan and other consumption debt. He also offers recommendations for reforms to tax procedure. This episode is hosted by...

Ann Lipton , associate professor of business law and entrepreneurship at Tulane University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her essay Inside Out (or, One State to Rule them All): New Challenges to the Internal Affairs Doctrine . In this essay, Lipton observes a trend in which internal-affairs doctrine, via forum-selection bylaws, encroaches on substantive fields outside its corpo...

Todd Phillips , principal at Phillips Policy Consulting and former director of financial regulation and corporate governance at the Cato Institute, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his essay The Fracas at the FDIC . In this essay Phillips examines a power struggle in late 2021 between the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation board’s Republican chair and Democratic majority, inclu...

Kish Parella , professor of ethics and law at Washington & Lee University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Corporate Foreign Policy in War . Parella’s article uses the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a study in how multinational firms respond to war, including how public pressure, business models, and contractual arrangements drive firms’ decisional space and react...

Darian Ibrahim , professor of law at the College of William & Mary, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Angels and Devils: The Early Crypto Entrepreneurs . In this article Ibrahim provides a typology in which crypto entrepreneurs are “angels” or “devils” and explains why these categories are analytically useful for framing the regulation of crypto assets, including un...

Evelyn Atkinson , an incoming professor at Tulane Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Telegraph Torts: The Lost Lineage of the Public Service Corporation . In this article, Atkinson recounts the history of the telegraph tort, a private action against telegraph companies for failure to deliver messages about a loved one's death or illness. The telegraph tort, A...

Joshua Blustein , a law student at the University of Chicago, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Hyperinflation in the Łódź Ghetto , which he co-authored with Jonah Bennett, Natalia Stefanska, Przemysław Galach, and Steven Hanke . In this article, Blustein and his co-authors offer an economic history of the Łódź Ghetto—the last ghetto to be liquidated by the Nazis during...

William Magnuson , professor of law at Texas A&M University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his book For Profit: A History of Corporations . This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, with editing by Steven Rozenfeld , a third-year student at Brooklyn Law School.

David Grenardo , professor of law at the University of St. Thomas, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Getting to the Root of the Problem: Where Are All the Black Owners in Sports? . In this article Grenardo examines underrepresentation of people of color—particularly Black people—among owners, senior executives, and head coaches in professional sports teams. He theorizes...

Kristen Eichensehr and Cathy Hwang , professors of law at the University of Virginia, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their essay National Security Creep in Corporate Transactions . In this essay Eichensehr and Hwang document the expansion of national-security review in mergers and other corporate transactions. They consider the implications of this “national security creep” for c...

Omari Scott Simmons , professor of law at Wake Forest University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Political Risk Management . In this article Simmons locates political risk as a subset of enterprise risk management and analyzes its role in the contemporary business environment. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings , assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School.

Samantha Prince , assistant professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Megacompany Employee Churn Meets 401(k) Vesting Schedules: A Sabotage on Workers' Retirement Wealth . In this article Prince problematizes the use of vesting schedules in employer-sponsored 401(k) plans, especially at companies with employee-churn rates that make...

Brian Feinstein , assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article In-Group Favoritism as Legal Strategy: Evidence from FCPA Settlements , which he co-authored with William Heaston and Guilherme Siqueira de Carvalho. In this article, the authors offer empirical findings that co...

Joan MacLeod Heminway , professor of law at the University of Tennessee, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Criminal Insider Trading in Personal Networks . In this article, Heminway investigates insider trading occurring in the context of friendship, familial, or romantic relationships and presents findings from her empirical study of this friends-and-family insider trad...

Giovanni Patti , head of research for the Securities Enforcement Empirical Database (SEED) at NYU, and Peter Robau , senior professional fellow at NYU’s Pollack Center for Law & Business, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their article SEC Regional Offices . In the article Patti and Robau present the history of the SEC’s eleven regional offices, including their pragmatic and ide...

Andrew Granato, executive editor and empirical scholarship editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation; John Bowers, empirical scholarship editor of the Yale Law Journal; and Arisa Herman, senior articles editor of the Cornell Law Review, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss the state of empirical legal scholarship and the recently announced Joint Law Review Statement on Data and Code Tra...

Marc Steinberg , professor of law at SMU, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article To Call a Donkey a Racehorse — The Fiduciary Duty Misnomer in Corporate and Securities Law . In this article Steinberg considers the rhetoric and reality of corporate fiduciary duty and concludes that directors, officers, and controlling shareholders are not fiduciaries strictly speaking but rat...

Allison Herren Lee , former commissioner and acting chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Anat Alon-Beck , assistant professor of law at Case Western Reserve University; and John Livingstone , research fellow at Case Western Reserve University, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss special-purpose vehicles and the divide in public and private markets. Alon-Beck and Livin...

Jennifer Fan , professor of law at the University of Washington, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article The Landscape of Startup Corporate Governance in the Founder-Friendly Era . In this article, Fan offers an empirical investigation of startup boards, including their governance models at different lifecycle and economic stages and their distinctions from public-company boa...

George Georgiev , associate professor of law at Emory University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article The Human Capital Management Movement in U.S. Corporate Law . In this article Georgiev gives an account of the move toward understanding workers as essential “assets” of a corporation, which in turn requires boards to consider workforces within their monitoring and oversi...

Robert Anderson , professor of law at Pepperdine University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article The Sea Corporation . In this article, Anderson traces the origins of “the sea corporation”—the separate legal personality of ships that partly parallels the legal and economic attributes of modern-day business corporations—and considers its implications for business-organizat...