Samantha Prince, associate professor of lawyering skills and entrepreneurship at Penn State Dickinson Law, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article The AB5 Experiment – Should States Adopt California’s Worker Classification Law?. Prince introduces the high stakes involved for workers, employers, and governments in classifying workers as employees or independent contractors. She presents a case study of California's new classification law, AB5, and successive rounds of political pushback and revision it has prompted. This case study, Prince explains, exemplifies experimental federalism and offers learnings for policymakers in other states. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Roberta Karmel, professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her career as a securities scholar, teacher, practitioner, and regulator. This episode is the second in a two-part series and covers Karmel's scholarship, views on securities policy, advice to scholars and new SEC chair Gary Gensler, and perspectives on teaching. The first episode in the series focuses on Karmel's early career as an SEC enforcement attorney and supervisor, private practitioner, and SEC commissioner—the first woman to serve in that position—and her transition to legal academia. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Roberta Karmel, professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her career as a securities scholar, teacher, practitioner, and regulator. This episode is the first in a two-part series and covers Karmel's early career as an SEC enforcement attorney and supervisor, private practitioner, and SEC commissioner—the first woman to serve in that position—and her transition to legal academia. The next episode focuses on Karmel's scholarship, views on securities policy, and perspectives on teaching. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Roy Shapira, associate professor at IDC Herzliya, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article A New Caremark Era: Causes and Consequences. Shapira observes that Delaware's Caremark doctrine, which has long imposed compliance duties on boards without much opportunity for shareholders to bring related claims, has entered a new era in a recent quartet of cases. He predicts that this turn of Caremark claims surviving motions to dismiss is the result of parallel developments around shareholders' Section 220 inspection rights. Shapira closes by highlighting the potential for a "new" Caremark to complement other compliance-enforcement mechanisms. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Cathy Hwang, professor of law at the University of Virginia, and Yaron Nili, assistant professor of law at the University of Wisconsin, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their article Cleaning Corporate Governance, which is co-authored with Jens Frankenreiter and Eric Talley. In this article the authors recreate a dataset of public-company charters on which numerous empirical studies have been based, finding a roughly 80% error rate in the prior data. The authors demonstrate the uses of their new dataset with a replication study of Corporate Governance and Equity Prices, a foundational work in empirical corporate governance. The dataset and its underlying documents are freely available at publiccompanycharters.com. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Carliss Chatman, associate professor of law at Washington & Lee University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Corporate Family Matters. In this article Chatman observes that contemporary large businesses operate through entity networks. She explains that siloed entities within such "corporate families" could facilitate organizational misconduct. To address this problem, she proposes a state-law definition of corporate families applicable to materiality judgments, reporting obligations, and conflicts of interest. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Sadie Blanchard, associate professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Contracts Without Courts or Clans: How Business Networks Govern Exchange. In this article Blanchard explains that under some conditions contracts can be formed and successfully carried out without enforcement by public courts or tight-knit social groups. She presents a case study of the reinsurance trade circa 1980 to demonstrate this point, which shows that the reinsurance industry long thrived on an international basis that did not require judicial or localized reputational enforcement. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Grant Hayden, professor of law at Southern Methodist University, and Matthew Bodie, professor of law at Saint Louis University, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their article Codetermination in Theory and Practice. In this article, Hayden and Bodie reexamine the literature on codetermination—the inclusion of workers in high-level corporate policymaking—and explain why it deserves a fresh look in an era of challenges to the shareholder-primacy model of corporate governance. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Dorothy Lund, assistant professor of law the University of Southern California, and Elizabeth Pollman, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their article The Corporate Governance Machine. In this article, Lund and Pollman identify the origins of the term "corporate governance" and explain corporate governance's emergence as a shareholder-focused system supported by law, markets, and culture. This system, the authors find, has served to arrest the development of and innovations in corporate governance and law. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Elizabeth Tippett, associate professor of law at the University of Oregon, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Enslaved Agents: Business Transactions Negotiated by Slaves in the Antebellum South. In this article, Tippett analyzes 18th- and 19th-century judicial decisions that spotlight the historical practice of enslaved workers serving as business agents to slaveholders. This analysis, she explains, sheds new light on the legal-economic history of slavery and the law of agency. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.