Business Scholarship Podcast

Ann Eisenberg, assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her forthcoming article Economic Regulation and Rural America. In this article, Eisenberg identifies a cycle of deregulation as leading to a decline in rural infrastructure and amenities. She explains, though, that rural America still has much to offer the nation, which recommends policy interventions to overcome rural diseconomies of scale. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Faith Stevelman, professor of law at New York Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her forthcoming article Boards in Information Governance. In this article, Stevelman and co-author Sarah Haan explain why the paradigm of the "monitoring" board is challenged by secular economic and technological trends. In its place, they identify an emerging paradigm, "information governance," in which boards focus on the coordination and strategic management of information. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Megan Shaner, professor of law at the University of Oklahoma, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article The Corporate Chameleon. In this article, Shaner identifies the conceptual difficulty of identifying with certainty just who a corporation's "officers" are. In response to this difficulty, she proposes a prototype-centered definition of "officer" to aid courts, firms, and potential officers in making that assessment. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Alexander Platt, Climenko Fellow and lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his forthcoming article Gatekeeping in the Dark: SEC Control over Private Securities Litigation Revisited. In this article, Platt considers the potential for SEC enforcement actions to catalyze "piggyback" litigation by private plaintiffs. To mitigate the potential for nonoptimal combinations of public plus private enforcement, he calls on the SEC to use its existing authority to account for potential "piggyback" effects in its own enforcement activities. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Brian Frye, associate professor of law at the University of Kentucky, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his forthcoming article Against Deaccessioning Rules. In this article, Frye questions the bases for professional ethical rules that prohibit charitable art museums from selling works of art. Going further, as a matter of corporate governance, he explores situations in which museum directors may have a fiduciary duty to sell art, especially if doing so means the difference for the institution's survival. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Hilary Allen, associate professor of law at American University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her essay Experimental Strategies for Regulating Fintech. In this essay, Allen reviews the challenges of regulating financial innovation and proposes that to keep up, agencies must themselves innovate and adopt new technologies to support their regulatory functions, a concept she dubs "SupTech." This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

David Hoffman, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his forthcoming article Transactional Scripts in Contract Stacks. In this article, Hoffman and co-author Shaanan Coheny take a critical view of "self-executing" contractual scripts, which they describe as still susceptible to long-standing contract problems and doctrines. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

J.W. Verret, associate professor of law at George Mason University, and Gregory Shill, associate professor of law at the University of Iowa, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss the 2020 crisis and congressional insider trading. Verret is the author of Applying Insider Trading Law to Congressmen, Government Officials, and the Political Intelligence Industry and Shill is the author of Congressional Securities Trading. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Daniel Schwarcz, professor of law at the University of Minnesota, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss the 2020 crisis and issues related to insurance coverage and regulation. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

Nakita Cuttino, visiting assistant professor of law at Duke University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her forthcoming article The Rise of ‘Fringetech’: Regulatory Risks in Early Wage Access. In this article, Cuttino evaluates and considers regulatory challenges related to early-wage-access programs, a new generation of tech-enabled financial services targeted at low-income workers. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.