Business Scholarship Podcast

Todd Phillips, principal at Phillips Policy Consulting and former director of financial regulation and corporate governance at the Cato Institute, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his essay The Fracas at the FDIC. In this essay Phillips examines a power struggle in late 2021 between the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation board’s Republican chair and Democratic majority, including its implications for the possibility of fracases at the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. 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.

Kish Parella, professor of ethics and law at Washington & Lee University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Corporate Foreign Policy in War. Parella’s article uses the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a study in how multinational firms respond to war, including how public pressure, business models, and contractual arrangements drive firms’ decisional space and reactions. 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.

Darian Ibrahim, professor of law at the College of William & Mary, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Angels and Devils: The Early Crypto Entrepreneurs. In this article Ibrahim provides a typology in which crypto entrepreneurs are “angels” or “devils” and explains why these categories are analytically useful for framing the regulation of crypto assets, including under the Howey test for investment-contract securities. 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.

Evelyn Atkinson, an incoming professor at Tulane Law School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Telegraph Torts: The Lost Lineage of the Public Service Corporation. In this article, Atkinson recounts the history of the telegraph tort, a private action against telegraph companies for failure to deliver messages about a loved one's death or illness. The telegraph tort, Atkinson observes, reflected affective relationships between telegraph companies and the public and points to early expectations that corporate purpose encompasses public service. 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.

Joshua Blustein, a law student at the University of Chicago, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Hyperinflation in the Łódź Ghetto, which he co-authored with Jonah Bennett, Natalia Stefanska, Przemysław Galach, and Steven Hanke. In this article, Blustein and his co-authors offer an economic history of the Łódź Ghetto—the last ghetto to be liquidated by the Nazis during the Holocaust—with a focus on its internal currency and the causes and effects of the currency’s hyperinflation. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School.

William Magnuson, professor of law at Texas A&M University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his book For Profit: A History of Corporations. 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.

David Grenardo, professor of law at the University of St. Thomas, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Getting to the Root of the Problem: Where Are All the Black Owners in Sports?. In this article Grenardo examines underrepresentation of people of color—particularly Black people—among owners, senior executives, and head coaches in professional sports teams. He theorizes explanations for these underrepresentations and proposes new league policies to reduce them. 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.

Kristen Eichensehr and Cathy Hwang, professors of law at the University of Virginia, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their essay National Security Creep in Corporate Transactions. In this essay Eichensehr and Hwang document the expansion of national-security review in mergers and other corporate transactions. They consider the implications of this “national security creep” for contract theory and design and judicial deference to Congress and the executive branch in national-security matters. 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.

Omari Scott Simmons, professor of law at Wake Forest University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Political Risk Management. In this article Simmons locates political risk as a subset of enterprise risk management and analyzes its role in the contemporary business environment. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School.

Samantha Prince, assistant professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Megacompany Employee Churn Meets 401(k) Vesting Schedules: A Sabotage on Workers' Retirement Wealth. In this article Prince problematizes the use of vesting schedules in employer-sponsored 401(k) plans, especially at companies with employee-churn rates that make it likely that few employees ever actually receive promised 401(k) matching contributions. Given the disproportionate number of people of color working in such high-churn positions, Prince observes that the 401(k)-vesting problem has downstream effects on racial wealth inequality. 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.