Business Scholarship Podcast

Miriam Baer, professor of law at Brooklyn Law School; Jacob Elberg, associate professor of law at Seton Hall University; and Karen Woody, associate professor of law at Washington & Lee University, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss Enforcement & Policing as part of the Financial and Corporate Regulation in the Biden Administration symposium. Related to the panel conversation, Baer is the author of Compliance Elites and Sorting Out White-Collar Crime; Elberg is the author of A Path to Data-Driven Health Care Enforcement and Health Care Fraud Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry. 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; Anthony Michael Kreis, assistant professor of law at Georgia State University; and Barak Richman, professor of law at Duke University, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss Corporate Power as part of the Financial and Corporate Regulation in the Biden Administration symposium. Related to the panel conversation, Chatman is the author of Corporate Family Matters; Richman is the author of Stateless Commerce: The Diamond Network and the Persistence of Relational Exchange and How to Save Democracy From Technology: Ending Big Tech’s Information Monopoly. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Christopher Odinet, professor of law at the University of Iowa; Nitzan Packin, associate professor at Baruch College Zicklin School of Business; and Spencer Williams, associate professor of law at Golden Gate University, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss Consumer Protection & Finance as part of the Financial and Corporate Regulation in the Biden Administration symposium. Related to the panel conversation, Packin is the author of In Too-Big-To-Fail We Trust: Ethics and Banking in the Era of COVID-19 and Show Me the (Data About the) Money!. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Laura Posner, partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC; Jennifer Schulp, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives; and James Fallows Tierney, assistant professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss Investor Protection & Corporate Finance as part of the Financial and Corporate Regulation in the Biden Administration symposium. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Gina-Gail Fletcher, professor of law at Duke University; Christina Skinner, assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School; and Kurt Wolfe, an associate at Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss Banking & Financial Regulation as part of the Financial and Corporate Regulation in the Biden Administration symposium. Related to the panel conversation, Skinner is the author of Regulating Nonbanks: A Plan for SIFI Lite, Nonbank Credit, and Central Banks and Climate Change. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Suneal Bedi, assistant professor of business law and ethics at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, and William Marra, investment manager at Validity Finance, LLC, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their article The Shadows of Litigation Finance. In their article, Bedi and Marra present a normative framework for analyzing litigation finance's welfare effects, including its effects on pre-dispute contracting and commercial behavior. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Felix Chang, professor of law at the University of Cincinnati, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Ethnically Segmented Markets. In this article, Chang introduces the concept of ethnically segmented and misaligned markets (ESMs)–markets in which buyers and sellers are members of distinct ethnic communities–through a case study of the market for wigs and hair extensions. He observes that ESMs can be partly understood in terms of antitrust, and that they present challenges to antitrust doctrine and raise questions for interethnic equity and relations. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Yaron Nili, assistant professor of law at the University of Wisconsin, and Kobi Kastiel, assistant professor of law at Tel Aviv University, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their article The Giant Shadow of Corporate Gadflies. In this article Nili and Kastiel examine the work of a handful of retail investors who frequently submit shareholder proposals, a group they dub "corporate gadflies." After presenting empirical findings on how gadflies influence corporate governance, Nili and Kastiel consider policy and regulatory implications for gadflies' work. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Jenifer Varzaly, assistant professor of commercial and corporate law at Durham University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article The Effectiveness of Disclosure Law Enforcement in Australia. In this article, Varzaly introduces novel datasets for disclosure-based public and private securities enforcement in Australia. In considering the joint effects of these enforcement modalities, she concludes that Australia has a moderately effective securities-enforcement system and identifies areas for improvement. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Christina Skinner, assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Presidential Pendulums in Finance. In this article, Skinner reviews the emerging role of the presidency in financial regulation, an area that was long the preserve of congressional and agency policymaking. After introducing evidence for presidential involvement in financial regulation, Skinner discusses the normative and pragmatic implications for this involvement on business cycles. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.