All Episodes

Ep.285 – William Thomas on How to Maximize Shareholder Wealth

Ep.284 – Melinda Roth on Family Offices

Ep.283 – Renee Jones on Untamed Unicorns

Ep.282 – William Laramy on Antitrust Enforcement as Signal

Ep.281 – Jacob Fisher on Shareholder Activism in Banks

Ep.280 – Michael Francus on Mass-Tort Bankruptcy

Ep.279 – Michael Pollack on Sidewalks

Ep.278 – Peter Oh on AI and Veil Piercing

Ep.277 – Matteo Gatti on Corporate Governing

Ep.276 – Cathy Hwang and Andrew Tuch on Borrowers Picking Lenders' Counsel

Ep.275 – Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on Taxing AI

Ep.274 – Jared Mayer on AI and Corporate Restructuring

Ep.273 – Robert Miller on Liability-Management Exercises

Ep.272 – Farshad Ghodoosi and Tal Kastner on Against-the-Drafter Doctrine

Ep.271 – Sean Vanatta on the History of Bank Supervision

Ep.270 – Stratos Pahis on Investor-State Dispute Resolution

Ep.269 – Atinuke Adediran on Disclosureland

Ep.268 – Adam Bozman, Douglas Fairhurst, and Daniel Greene on AI and M&A Success

Ep.267 – Brian Feinstein on Small-Business Favoritism

Ep.266 – Gregory Burke and Riley League on Crowdfunding Compliance

Ep.265 – Aaron Zimbelman on Indirect Earnings Management

Ep.264 – Patrick Corrigan on Bank Leaks

Ep.263 – Narine Lalafaryan on Chameleon Capital

Ep.262 – Maria Lucia Passador on Loyalty Voting

Ep.261 – Darren Rosenblum on Corporate Governance and the Closet

Ep.260 – Nathan Herrmann, Sara Toynbee and Matthew Kubic on Criminal Securities Cases

Ep.259 – Anika Singh Lemar on Slum Managers

Ep.258 – Melinda Roth on Sports Prediction Markets

Ep.257 – Kevin Keller on State Capitalism

Ep.256 – Ahson Azmat on Half-Truths

Ep.255 – Suneal Bedi and Todd Haugh on Profitable Compliance

Ep.254 – Jessica Shoemaker and James Tierney on Financializing Farmland

Ep.253 – Hilary Allen on Silicon Valley Ruining Things

Ep.252 – Adam Callister, Andrew Granato and Belisa Pang on Expert Witnesses

Ep.251 – Gad Weiss on VC Pay-to-Play

Ep.250 – Nicole Cade, Joshua Gunn & Alex Vandenberg on List Experiments and Earnings Manipulation

Ep.249 – Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci and Christina Sautter on Shareholder Democracy

Ep.248 – Ilya Beylin on Event-Contract Regulation

Ep.247 – Scott Dodson and Joseph Grundfest on Leftover Money

Ep.246 – Trang (Mae) Nguyen on Global Company Towns

Ep.245 – Kaleb Byars on Corporate Recidivists

Ep.244 – Jessica Erickson on Small-Business Litigation

Ep.243 – Robert Breunig on Round Numbers

Ep.242 – Andrew Verstein on the Corporate Census

Ep.241 – Jason Sockin and Avner Ben-Ner on Employee Stock Ownership

Ep.240 – William Megginson on the Space Economy

Ep.239 – Ziv Granov on Director Resignations

Ep.238 – Yuliya Guseva on Decentralized Markets and Self-Regulation

Ep.237 – Maria Lucia Passador on Governance Outsourcing

Ep.236 – Paul Weitzel on AI Corporate Theory

Ep.235 – Roberto Tallarita and Kenneth Khoo on Shareholder ESG Proposals

Ep.234 – James Tierney on Securities Industry Bars

Ep.233 – Melissa Jacoby on Unjust Debts

Ep.232 – James Park on the SEC as an Entrepreneurial Enforcer

Ep.231 – Susan Morse on Safe Harbors

Ep.230 – Mitu Gulati, Ugo Panizza, and Mark Weidemaier on a Podcast Experiment

Ep.229 – Hester Peirce on Regulators and Academics

Ep.228 – Travis Laster on Judges and Academics

Ep.227 – Alison Frankel on Journalists and Academics

Ep.226 – Stephen Sachs on Corporate Jurisdiction

Ep.225 – Ifeoma Ajunwa on Quantified Workers

Ep.224 – Stelios Michalopoulos and Christopher Rauh on Movies

Ep.223 – George Werner on the Tobacco Trust

Ep.222 – William Bunting and Tomer Stein on Business Amici

Ep.221 – Alexandra Roberts on MLM Lies

Ep.220 – Brian Highsmith on Megadeals

Ep.219 – William Clayton on Private-Funds Regulation

Ep.218 – Christine Abely on the Russia Sanctions

Ep.217 – Geeyoung Min on Strategic Compliance

Ep.216 – Yaron Nili and Roy Shapira on Specialist Directors

Ep.215 – Steven Xiao on Consumers and ESG

Ep.214 – Nicole Iannarone on Securities Arbitration

Ep.213 – Natalya Shnitser on 401(k) Governance

Ep.212 – Anat Admati on the Banker's New Clothes

Ep.211 – James An on the Direct-Derivative Distinction

Ep.210 – Anne Choike on Local Firm Governance

Ep.209 – Martin Sybblis on Decolonialization and Corporate Law

Ep.208 – Adam Eckart on Corporate Activism

Ep.207 – Narine Lalafaryan on Private Credit Funds

Ep.206 – J.W. Verret on Disgorgement

Ep.205 – André Mancha on Stolen Goods

Ep.204 – Michael Guttentag on the Value of Inside Information

Ep.203 – Miriam Baer on White-Collar Myths

Ep.202 – Daniel Listwa on Shareholder Lock-In and the First Amendment

Ep.201 – Panel on the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy

Ep.200 – Mariana Pargendler on Heterodox Stakeholderism

Ep.199 – Melissa Newham on Physician Gifts

Ep.198 – Andrew Tuch on SPAC Fairness Opinions

Ep.197 – Laura Boudreau and Ada González-Torres on Detecting Harassment

Ep.196 – Guha Krishnamurthi on Caste Discrimination

Ep.195 – Andrew Schwartz on Crowdfunding

Ep.194 – Lindsey Gallo & Kendall Lynch on Corporate Monitors

Ep.193 – Hajin Kim on Stakeholder Expectations

Ep.192 – Jordan Neyland on Lawyers and IPO Outcomes

Ep.191 – Todd Phillips on the MQD at the SEC

Ep.190 – Helen Norton on Securities Regulation and Free Speech

Ep.189 – Rachel Landy on Exit Engineering

Ep.188 – Timothy Pollock on Celebrity CEOs

Ep.187 – Dana Brakman Reiser and Steven Dean on For-Profit Philanthropy

Ep.186 – Sneha Pandya on Creditor Violence

Ep.185 – Joseph Borg on State Securities Regulation (Part II)

Ep.184 – Joseph Borg on State Securities Regulation (Part I)

Ep.183 – Abby Lemert on Facebook's Corporate-Law Paradox

Ep.182 – Martin Grace and Jingshu Luo on Model Laws

Ep.181 – Brett McDonnell on Stakeholder Engagement

Ep.180 – Stephen Bainbridge on the Profit Motive

Ep.179 – Elise Maizel on Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege

Ep.178 – Caleb Griffin on Humanizing Corporate Governance

Ep.177 – Vijay Raghavan on the Debt Tax

Ep.176 – Ann Lipton on the Internal-Affairs Doctrine

Ep.175 – Todd Phillips on the Fracas at the FDIC

Ep.174 – Kish Parella on Corporate Foreign Policy in War

Ep.173 – Darian Ibrahim on Crypto Angels and Devils

Ep.172 – Evelyn Atkinson on Telegraph Torts

Ep.171 – Joshua Blustein on Hyperinflation in the Łódź Ghetto

Ep.170 – William Magnuson on the History of Corporations

Ep.169 – David Grenardo on Black Owners in Sports

Ep.168 – Kristen Eichensehr and Cathy Hwang on National-Security Creep

Ep.167 – Omari Scott Simmons on Political Risk Management

Ep.166 – Samantha Prince on Retirement Vesting

Ep.165 – Brian Feinstein on White-Collar Favoritism

Ep.164 – Joan MacLeod Heminway on Friends-and-Family Insider Trading

Ep.163 – Giovanni Patti and Peter Robau on SEC Regional Offices

Ep.162 – Andrew Granato, John Bowers, and Arisa Herman on Empirical Legal Scholarship

Ep.161 – Marc Steinberg on Fiduciary Duty

Ep.160 – Allison Herren Lee, Anat-Alon Beck, and John Livingstone on Public and Private Markets

Ep.159 – Jennifer Fan on Startup Boards

Ep.158 – George Georgiev on Human-Capital Management

Ep.157 – Robert Anderson on the Sea Corporation

Ep.156 – John Rice on Rainbow-Washing

Ep.155 – Christiana Ochoa on Deals in the Heartland

Ep.154 – Lécia Vicente on Ownership Piercing

Ep.153 – Jared Ellias on Bankruptcy Directors

Ep.152 – Joseph Pileri on Street Vending

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

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

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

Ep.148 – Local-Journalism Symposium: Private Equity and Local Journalism

Ep.147 – Tracey George, Eva Davis & Germaine Gurr on Gender, Credentials and M&A

Ep.146 – Yesha Yadav on Bond Markets

Ep.145 – George Georgiev on the Public-Private Divide

Ep.144 – Madison Condon on Climate Risk and Asset Pricing

Ep.143 – Alexander Platt on Section 13(f) and Corporate Governance

Ep.142 – Anat-Alon Beck & Darren Rosenblum on the Duty to Diversify

Ep.141 – William Moon on Anonymous Companies

Ep.140 – Akshaya Kamalnath on Diversity Short-Termism

Ep.139 – Richard Crowley on Executive Tweets

Ep.138 – Christina Skinner on Central-Bank Activism

Ep.137 – Emmanuel Yimfor on Misconduct Synergies

Ep.136 – Angela Aneiros on D&O Insurance and Social Change

Ep.135 – Paolo Saguato on Clearinghouses

Ep.134 – Benjamin Ho on Corporate Apologies

Ep.133 – Melissa Jacoby on Shocking Business Bankruptcy

Ep.132 – David Kershaw & Edmund Schuster on Purposeful Corporations

Ep.131 – Panel on Unicorns

Ep.130 – Tom Gosling on CEO Pay

Ep.129 – Harwell Wells on Civil-Rights Shareholder Activism

Ep.128 – Afra Afsharipour on Women & M&A

Ep.127 – Jeremy Kress on Bank Boards

Ep.126 – Colleen Honigsberg on Broker Recidivism

Ep.125 – Steven Boivie & Scott Graffin on the Role of Directors

Ep.124 – Rebecca Jarvis on the Trial of Elizabeth Holmes

Ep.123 – Christina Sautter & Sergio Grammito Ricci on Retail Investors

Ep.122 – Eliot Brown on WeWork

Ep.121 – Christine Abely on Consumer Debt and Judgment Interest

Ep.120 – Andrea Fried on Standards

Ep.119 – Julian Arato on International Corporate Law

Ep.118 – Amelia Miazad on Prosocial Antitrust

Ep.117 – Patrick Bolton, Mitu Gulati & Ugo Panizza on Sovereign Debt Crises

Ep.116 – Elisabeth de Fontenay and Eric Talley on Mistaken Payments

Ep.115 – John Coyle on Cruise Contracts

Ep.114 – Leandra Lederman on the Fraud Triangle and Tax Evasion

Ep.113 – Benjamin Means on Business Succession and King Lear

Ep.112 – Steven Dean on Tax Havens

Ep.111 – Lawrence Cunningham on Quality Shareholders

Ep.110 – Anita Krug on Temporary Securities Regulation

Ep.109 – Richard Gentry, Timothy Quigley & Steven Boivie on CEO Turnover

Ep.108 – Samantha Prince on Worker Classification

Ep.107 – Roberta Karmel on Securities Regulation (Part II)

Ep.106 – Roberta Karmel on Securities Regulation (Part I)

Ep.105 – Roy Shapira on a New Caremark Era

Ep.104 – Cathy Hwang & Yaron Nili on Cleaning Corporate Governance

Ep.103 – Carliss Chatman on Corporate Family Matters

Ep.102 – Sadie Blanchard on Contracts Without Courts or Clans

Ep.101 – Grant Hayden and Matthew Bodie on Codetermination

Ep.100 – Dorothy Lund and Elizabeth Pollman on the Corporate-Governance Machine

Ep.99 – Elizabeth Tippett on Enslaved Agents

Ep.98 – Edmund Schuster on Blockchain Hype

Ep.97 – Michael Klausner on SPACs

Ep.96 – Sarah Haan on the Feminization of Capital

Ep.95 – Charlotte Haendler and Rawley Heimer on Financial-Services Complaints

Ep.94 – Charles McClure on Disclosure and Managerial Learning

Ep.93 – Amanda Dixon, Madison Sherrill & Hadar Tanne on Willful Breach in M&A

Ep.92 – Gregory Burke on SEC Staff and Shareholder Proposals

Ep.91 – Laura Coordes on Bespoke Bankruptcy

Ep.90 – Emily Strauss on Everything as Securities Fraud

Ep.89 – Asaf Raz on Arbitration and Corporate Law

Ep.88 – Kish Parella on Business and Human Rights

Ep.87 – Carlos Berdejó on Financing Minority Entrepreneurship

Ep.86 – Anat Alon-Beck on Alternative Venture Capital

Ep.85 – Biden Symposium: Enforcement & Policing

Ep.84 – Biden Symposium: Corporate Power

Ep.83 – Biden Symposium: Consumer Protection & Finance

Ep.82 – Biden Symposium: Investor Protection & Corporate Finance

Ep.81 – Biden Symposium: Banking & Financial Regulation

Ep.80 – Suneal Bedi and William Marra on Litigation Finance

Ep.79 – Felix Chang on Ethnically Segmented Markets

Ep.78 – Yaron Nili and Kobi Kastiel on Corporate Gadflies

Ep.77 – Jenifer Varzaly on Australian Securities Enforcement

Ep.76 – Christina Skinner on Presidential Financial Regulation

Ep.75 – Ramsi Woodcock on Antitrust Skepticism

Ep.74 – Brando Cremona and Maria Passador on Comparative Shareholder Activism

Ep.73 – Sean Griffith and Abraham Cable on Deal Insurance

Ep.72 – Spencer Williams on Contracts as Systems

Ep.71 – David Hoffman and Cathy Hwang on the Social Cost of Contract

Ep.70 – Afra Afsharipour on Bias, Identity, and M&A

Ep.69 – Eldar Maksymov & Matthew Ege on Audit Quality and M&A

Ep.68 – Aisha Saad on Corporate Waqfs

Ep.67 – Aditi Bagchi on Interpreting Boilerplate

Ep.66 – Blair Bullock on Harassment Retaliation

Ep.65 – Benjamin Edwards on Broker Complaints

Ep.64 – Anat Alon-Beck on Human Capital and Corporate Governance

Ep.63 – Donna Nagy on the Story of Chiarella

Ep.62 – Andrew Baker on Event Studies

Ep.61 – Andrew Verstein on Insider-Trading Motives

Ep.60 – Saule Omarova on a National Investment Authority

Ep.59 – Yonathan Arbel on Payday

Ep.58 – Miriam Baer on Compliance Elites

Ep.57 – Mihailis Diamantis on a Corporate Insanity Defense

Ep.56 – Yerv Melkonyan on Reg BI and the States

Ep.55 – Ann Eisenberg on Rural America

Ep.54 – Faith Stevelman on Information Governance

Ep.53 – Megan Shaner on Corporate Officers

Ep.52 – Alexander Platt on Piggyback Securities Litigation

Ep.51 – Brian Frye on Selling Art

Ep.50 – Hilary Allen on Regulating Fintech

Ep.49 – David Hoffman on Transactional Scripts

Ep.48 – J.W. Verret & Gregory Shill on the 2020 Crisis and Congressional Insider Trading

Ep.47 – Daniel Schwarcz on the 2020 Crisis and Insurance

Ep.46 – Nakita Cuttino on Early Wage Access

Ep.45 – David Zaring on the 2020 Crisis and Banking Regulators

Ep.44 – Josephine Nelson on Workplace Surveillance

Ep.43 – Yonah Freemark on the 2020 Crisis and Transit

Ep.42 – Paul Mahoney on Soft Dollars

Ep.41 – Kevin Douglas on Michael Milken

Ep.40 – Tom Lin on Financial AI

Ep.39 – Verity Winship on Enforcement Networks

Ep.38 – Jeremy Kress & Matthew Turk on Community-Bank Deregulation

Ep.37 – Michael Cappucci on Proxy Advisors

Ep.36 – Letian Zhang on M&A and Workplace Equality

Ep.35 – Anne Tucker on Citizens United at 10

Ep.34 – Ciara Torres-Spelliscy on Citizens United at 10

Ep.33 – Michael Rocca on Citizens United at 10

Ep.32 – Elizabeth Pollman on Citizens United at 10

Ep.31 – Anna Harvey on Citizens United at 10

Ep.30 – Sarah Haan on Citizens United at 10

Ep.29 – Kent Greenfield on Citizens United at 10

Ep.28 – Elizabeth Pollman on Startup Governance

Ep.27 – Omari Scott Simmons on Executive-Search Firms and Governance

Ep.26 – Menesh Patel on Merger Breakups

Ep.25 – Jessica Erickson on Automating Securities Class-Action Settlements

Ep.24 – Joseph Grundfest on Federal-Forum Provisions

Ep.23 – Sarah Haan on Civil Rights and Shareholder Activism

Ep.22 – Gina-Gail Fletcher on Engineered Credit-Default Swaps

Ep.21 – Gregory Shill on Driving, Motordom, and Political Economy

Ep.20 – Rory Van Loo on Regulatory Monitors

Ep.19 – Preeti Choudhary on Materiality Judgments

Ep.18 – Ann Lipton on Mandatory Stakeholder Disclosure

Ep.17 – Veronica Root Martinez on the Compliance Process

Ep.16 – John Coyle on the History of the Choice-of-Law Clause

Ep.15 – Jennifer Arlen on Overseas Deferred-Prosecution Agreements

Ep.14 – Yaron Nili on Successor CEOs

Ep.13 – Claire Hill on #MeToo and Profit Maximization

Ep.12 – Benjamin Edwards & Anthony Rickey on Hidden Conflicts in Securities Litigation

Ep.11 – Natasha Sarin on Making Consumer Finance Work

Ep.10 – Emily Kadens on Reputation and Cheating

Ep.9 – Robert Anderson on a Property Theory of Corporate Law

Ep.8 – Lev Menand on the Monetary Basis of Bank Supervision

Ep.7 – Dorothy Lund on Nonvoting Shares and Efficient Corporate Governance

Ep.6 – Sehwa Kim & Seil Kim on Fragmented Securities Regulation

Ep.5 – Victoria Schwartz on Celebrity Stock Markets

Ep.4 – Jonathan Lipson on the Secret Life of Priority

Ep.3 – Adriana Robertson on Index Investing

Ep.2 – Cathy Hwang on Deal Momentum and Faux Contracts

Ep.1 – Aneesh Raghunandan on Financial and Non-Financial Misconduct