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 corporate-governance heartland. This trend includes employment and securities disputes. She identifies concerns with this trend, including undermining states’ non-corporate regulatory policies and forcing disputes, like claims under the Exchange Act, into fora that lack subject-matter jurisdiction to hear them.

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.