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Business Scholarship Podcast

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Sep 23, 2022 • 28min

Ep.158 – George Georgiev on Human-Capital Management

George Georgiev, associate professor of law at Emory University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article The Human Capital Management Movement in U.S. Corporate Law. In this article Georgiev gives an account of the move toward understanding workers as essential “assets” of a corporation, which in turn requires boards to consider workforces within their monitoring and oversight responsibilities. He evaluates recent SEC regulations mandating human-capital management (HCM) disclosures and previews future HCM regulatory developments. 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.
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Sep 6, 2022 • 25min

Ep.157 – Robert Anderson on the Sea Corporation

Robert Anderson, professor of law at Pepperdine University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article The Sea Corporation. In this article, Anderson traces the origins of “the sea corporation”—the separate legal personality of ships that partly parallels the legal and economic attributes of modern-day business corporations—and considers its implications for business-organization theory. 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.
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Aug 25, 2022 • 30min

Ep.156 – John Rice on Rainbow-Washing

John Rice, visiting assistant professor of law at Duquesne University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Rainbow-Washing. In this article Rice confronts the dichotomy between corporate expressions of support for the LGBTQIA+ community, on the one hand, and actions inconsistent with those commitments, on the other hand. Rice situates this problem in state-law fiduciary duties and federal securities-law obligations and identifies rainbow-washing litigation risks firms might face. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School.
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Aug 11, 2022 • 25min

Ep.155 – Christiana Ochoa on Deals in the Heartland

Christiana Ochoa, professor of law at Indiana University Bloomington, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Deals in the Heartland, which she co-authored with Kacey Cook and Hanna Weil. In this article, Ochoa and her co-authors conduct an ethnography around disputes over wind-farm construction in rural Indiana. Their findings suggest that contracting practices, including formality and transparency, affect the stability of relationships among members of tight-knit communities and the relationships between community members and outside parties. With implications for both contract theory and the race to adopt clean-energy technology, this contractual stability Ochoa and her co-authors identify can, in turn, help wind-farm operators overcome local regulatory barriers. 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.
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Jul 29, 2022 • 19min

Ep.154 – Lécia Vicente on Ownership Piercing

Lécia Vicente, who teaches business law at Louisiana State University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Ownership Piercing. In this article, Vicente theorizes the unique aspects of the separation of ownership and control in limited liability companies (LLCs) and proposes that in manager-managed LLCs, courts should assess ownership through an evaluative “ownership piercing” process. 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.
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Jul 20, 2022 • 0sec

Ep.153 – Jared Ellias on Bankruptcy Directors

Jared Ellias, professor of law at Harvard University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article The Rise of Bankruptcy Directors, which he co-authored with Ehud Kamar and Kobi Kastiel of Tel Aviv University. In this article Ellias and his co-authors present an empirical study of the rise of independent directors—traditionally a corporate-law concept—in Chapter 11 bankruptcies. The study finds that although “bankruptcy directors” may be presented as neutral experts who help maximize creditor recoveries, their appointments are associated with on average 20% reductions in unsecured-creditor recoveries. 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.
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Jul 7, 2022 • 29min

Ep.152 – Joseph Pileri on Street Vending

Joseph Pileri, chief legal officer at Mission Driven Finance, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Who Gets to Make a Living? Street Vending in America. Pileri outlines the history and place of street vending in America’s cities, how the business model works and why entrepreneurs pursue it, and the regulatory barriers to entry they face. He closes with proposed reforms to address the distributional and criminalization effects of current street-vending regulations. 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.
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Jun 23, 2022 • 26min

Ep.151 – Afra Afsharipour & Darren Rosenblum on the C-Suite

Afra Afsharipour, professor of law at the University of California, Davis, and Darren Rosenblum, professor of law at McGill University, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their essay Power and Pay in the C-Suite. In this essay, Afsharpiour and Rosenblum extend the board-diversity literature to examine diversity in the next layer of the corporate hierarchy: the C-suite occupied by the chief executive, financial, legal, HR, and other senior officers. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, with editing by Daniel Hamilton, a third-year student at Brooklyn Law School.
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Jun 6, 2022 • 45min

Ep.150 – Local-Journalism Symposium: Corporate Misconduct and Local Journalism

Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, assistant professor at the University of California San Diego; Karen Woody, professor at Washington & Lee University; and Joseph Borg, director of the Alabama Securities Commission, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss Corporate Misconduct and Local Journalism as part of the podcast’s Local Journalism, Business, and Society symposium. Pérez Cavazos is the author, with Jonas Heese and Caspar David Peter, of When the Local Newspaper Leaves Town: The Effects of Local Newspaper Closures on Corporate Misconduct. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, with editing by Daniel Hamilton, a third-year student at Brooklyn Law School.
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Jun 6, 2022 • 44min

Ep.149 – Local-Journalism Symposium: Workplaces and Local Journalism

Sinja Leonelli, a PhD student at the University of Chicago; Aneesh Raghunandan, assistant professor at the London School of Economics; and John Howard, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss Workplaces and Local Journalism as part of the podcast’s Local Journalism, Business, and Society symposium. Leonelli is the author of Are Newspaper Deserts an Oasis for Leniency? The Effect of Information Dissemination on Regulator Activity. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, with editing by Daniel Hamilton, a third-year student at Brooklyn Law School.

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