Business Scholarship Podcast

Dana Brakman Reiser, professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, and Steven Dean, professor of law at Boston University, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their book For-Profit Philanthropy: Elite Power and the Threat of Limited Liability Companies, Donor-Advised Funds, and Strategic Corporate Giving. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, associate professor of law at Emory University, and was edited by Warren Zhang, a rising second-year law student at Emory University.

Sneha Pandya, a federal law clerk, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Debt Textualism and Creditor-on-Creditor Violence: A Modest Plea to Keep the Faith, which was co-authored with Eric Talley of Columbia University. In this article, Pandya and her co-author track recent acrimony in the corporate-debt markets and consider how judicial interpretation of debt contracts might mitigate or exacerbate creditor-on-creditor conflict. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, associate professor of law at Emory University, and was edited by Warren Zhang, a rising second-year law student at Emory University.

Joseph Borg, who recently retired from three decades as director of the Alabama Securities Commission, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his career as a state securities regulator. Topics in this second part of a two-episode interview include public service in securities regulation; cooperation between state regulators, FINRA, and the SEC; and agency funding and resources. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, associate professor of law at Emory University, and Benjamin Edwards, associate professor of law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The episode was edited by Warren Zhang, a rising second-year law student at Emory University.

Joseph Borg, who recently retired from three decades as director of the Alabama Securities Commission, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his career as a state securities regulator. Topics in this first part of a two-episode interview include agency building and administrative structure, state politics and financial regulation, cooperation between state and federal enforcement agencies, memorable enforcement actions, and insights on crypto enforcement by state securities regulators. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, associate professor of law at Emory University, and Benjamin Edwards, associate professor of law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The episode was edited by Warren Zhang, a rising second-year law student at Emory University.

Abby Lemert, a recent graduate of Yale Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Facebook’s Corporate Law Paradox. In this article, Lemert identifies social harms associated with the Delaware-incorporated social-networking site Facebook and considers the constraints Delaware law imposes on the company’s ability to self-regulate toward mitigating those harms. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, associate professor of law at Emory University, and was edited by Warren Zhang, a rising second-year law student at Emory University.

Martin Grace, professor of risk, insurance, and healthcare management at Temple University, and Jingshu Luo, assistant professor of finance at the University of Mississippi, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their article The Market for Model Laws: The Diffusion of NAIC’s Model Laws, which they co-authored with Charlotte Alexander of Georgia State University. In this article, the authors investigate pathways of state adoption of model insurance laws promulgated by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, with editing by Christina Brown, a third-year student at Brooklyn Law School.

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 Christina Brow, a third-year student at Brooklyn Law School.

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 contemporary practice of corporate attorney-client privilege to be unworkable and socially costly and proposes reforms around channeling corporations’ attorney-client communications through board-level privileged-communications committees. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School.

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 Law School, with editing by Christina Brow, a third-year student at Brooklyn Law School.