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Bite-Sized Business Law

The Corporate Law Center at Fordham University School of Law

Looking for the latest in legal business news?Get a breakdown of the top stories in business law from industry leaders on the front lines with Bite-Sized Business Law. Host Amy Martella takes a closer look at the latest corporate happenings through interviews with the attorneys, legal experts, public figures, and scholars behind the news to distill business law’s biggest stories into bite-sized portions.This is your chance to go further into the world of business law and stay up to date with legal

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28:00

Toward a Corporate Ordering World

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2026/09/29

When corporations face social questions faster than lawmakers can answer them, who makes the rules guiding those decisions? On this episode of Bite-Sized Business Law, Stavros Gadinis, the George R. Johnson Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business, discusses his new book, Corporate Ordering: How Corporations Navigate Social Conflict. Stavros provides fascinating examples from household private sector companies who were forced to shape the rules of thei...

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34:16

Tipper X Talks: Inside Wall Street's Biggest Sting,...

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2026/09/15

Ethical lines are not always crossed in one dramatic leap. Sometimes pressure, culture, and ambition make each small compromise easier to justify. In today’s episode Tom Hardin, author of Wired on Wall Street and the former FBI informant known as Tipper X, discusses his journey from young hedge fund analyst to cooperating witness in a major insider trading investigation. Tom explains how, during his time in the hedge fund world, information advantages were rewarded, why the line between mosai...

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46:40

The New Rules of the Climate Economy

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2026/09/01

As climate change increasingly reshapes the way we live and do business, companies are facing a new reality: adapting to environmental risk is no longer optional. But alongside the challenges are significant opportunities. In this episode, Adam Orford, associate professor of environmental law and policy at Fordham Law School, explores the growing intersection of business law and climate change, and what it means for the future of business. We examine whether businesses may have more power tha...

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48:03

Confronting Claimant Farming in Mass Tort Bankruptcies

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2026/08/18

When every mass-tort claimant has the same voting power, can bankruptcy still deliver a fair settlement? In this episode of Bite-Sized Business Law, we welcome Wake Forest Law Professor Samir Parikh and Fordham Law Professor Richard Squire to examine how claimant farming can distort mass tort bankruptcies. Samir is a nationally recognized expert in mass tort restructurings and editor-in-chief of the Bloomberg Law Bankruptcy Treatise, and Richard is an expert in bankruptcy and corporate restru...

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22:33

The President of Fordham on the Business of Running a...

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2026/08/04

Welcome to the 100th episode of the Bite-Sized Business Law podcast! In celebration of this milestone, the president of Fordham University, Tania Tetlow, joins us to discuss the business of running a university. Tuning in, you’ll hear all about President Tetlow’s life, her professional background, how running a university is similar to running a business, her mission-driven role, and more! She goes on to discuss the importance of pulling leadership from within faculty ranks before talking abo...

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37:01

Fields of Gold: Inside South Dakota’s Trust Empire

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2026/07/21

South Dakota has turned itself into the ‘trust fund capital’ of America, and the system is thriving financially. Some proponents say the South Dakota trust fund regime is absolutely necessary for those with mega-wealth, but others argue that it’s eroding the American tax base, enabling the hollowing out of the middle class, and defying the trust Teddy Roosevelt knew Americans had in each other. Author and investigative journalist Leah McGrath Goodman unpacks her report, ‘Inside America’s Race...

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35:30

Valuing the Future: SpaceX, AI, and the Art of Valuation

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2026/07/07

How do you put a price on companies that could reshape entire industries? Today on Bite-Sized Business Law, we welcome ‘the Dean of Valuation,’ Professor Aswath Damodaran, to explain the methods behind the valuations of large companies. Tuning in, you’ll hear all about how price and value differ, the importance of taking ownership of your decisions as an investor, how Professor Damodaran has valued SpaceX and why it has been valued so high. We delve into the wild valuations of AI and the effe...

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47:28

Prediction Markets and the Law

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2026/06/23

Prediction markets are surging in popularity, allowing users to bet on everything from elections and military action to awards and celebrity news. But when traders have information the rest of the market does not, where is the line separating useful forecasting from unlawful conduct? In this episode of Bite-Sized Business Law, we speak with Joshua Mitts, the David J. Greenwald Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, about the legal questions surrounding informed trading in prediction markets...

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18:27

Set It and Forget It Governance: Inside ExxonMobil's...

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2026/06/09

The debate over ExxonMobil’s new retail investor voting program is raising important questions about shareholder participation and corporate power. In this episode of Bite-Sized Business Law, we examine ExxonMobil’s new approach to retail shareholder voting, which supporters say gives retail investors a stronger voice, while critics argue it could consolidate management power and limit the influence of activist investors. Christina Sautter, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at ...

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35:28

The Public Market’s Makeover: Inside the SEC’s Big...

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2026/05/26

The recent changes the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made have shaken up the public market in a way that could permanently reshape the balance of power between companies and investors. Today on the Bite-Sized Business Law Podcast, we welcome Walker Newell to discuss the SEC’s big reset and its effects on investors, businesses, and their advisors. In this conversation, you’ll hear all about Walker’s career, his time at the SEC, and his unexpected foray into D&O insuranc...

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31:27

The Efficiency Trap: How AI Is Remodeling the Deal Room

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2026/05/12

AI is already reshaping legal work, but not in the way most people expect. In this episode of Bite-Sized Business Law, we speak with Francisco Morales Barrón, an M&A partner at Vinson & Elkins and member of the firm’s AI Task Force, about how he is actively using AI in high-stakes dealmaking rather than simply theorizing about its future. The conversation begins with how Francisco responded to early caution within his firm by taking the lead on exploring AI while also teaching a law s...

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30:44

Inside the New York Commercial Division, Where Big...

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2026/04/28

The New York Commercial Division has become a premier forum for resolving complex business disputes at the center of the world’s financial capital. Today we speak with James Catterson, a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop and former associate justice of the Appellate Division, First Department, who also served as a trial judge and now sits on the Commercial Division Advisory Council. Learn why the Commercial Division was created to keep high-value corporate disputes in New York and how federal-lev...

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34:58

Preventing Constitutional Competition

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2026/04/14

Can constitutional democracy survive the age of AI, or are we handing over governance to systems the law was never built to handle? In this episode of Bite-Sized Business Law Podcast, host Amy Martella sits down with Margaret Hu, Davison Douglas Professor of Law and Director of the Digital Democracy Lab at William & Mary Law School, to explore the intersection of AI and constitutional law. Margaret shares her journey from the Civil Rights Division post-9/11 to becoming one of the first sc...

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49:55

A Tale of Two Cases: The Shared Stakes in Musk's...

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2026/03/31

Today, the long-running legal battle over Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package reaches its final chapter. In this episode of Bite-Sized Business Law, Amy Martella is joined by Richard Squire, Professor of Business Law at Fordham and faculty director of the Corporate Law Center, to unpack two pivotal Delaware Supreme Court decisions: ‘Tornetta v. Musk’ and ‘Rutledge v. Clearway Energy Group LLC’. Together, these cases bring the Musk saga to a close while reshaping the broader landscape of Delaware co...

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30:57

Going All In: Nevada’s New Business Court

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2026/03/17

Nevada is pushing towards establishing a dedicated business court, and today on the Bite-Sized Business Law Podcast, we welcome law professor and Nevada expert Benjamin Edwards to discuss this new system. You’ll hear all about the structure of the business court in Nevada, what the election cycle looks like, a note on the Nevada Supreme Court Commission, the process of passing a constitutional amendment in Nevada, and so much more! We delve into what makes Nevada’s court system so unique and ...

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37:55

Inside The Chancery Daily: A Conversation with the...

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2026/03/03

The Delaware Court of Chancery has never been a hotter topic than it is right now, and today’s guest is on a mission to share the work of the Chancery with the public. Lauren Pringle, editor-in-chief of The Chancery Daily, discusses what her paper does as the premiere legal publication covering the Delaware court system. Lauren and her staff demystify what’s happening in the courts in a way that the general public can digest. In this conversation, you’ll hear all about Lauren’s unusual career...

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29:08

Firing the Humans: JPMorgan’s Big Bet on AI Proxy...

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2026/02/17

What happens when one of the world’s largest asset managers decides to hand its proxy voting recommendations process to a robot? In this episode, Michael Levin, corporate governance expert and host of The Shareholder Primacy Podcast, unpacks JPMorgan Asset Management’s decision to stop using renowned proxy advisory firms ISS and Glass Lewis and instead rely on its in-house AI platform, Proxy IQ. Michael explains what proxy advisory firms do, why they are important, and why they face growing c...

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40:53

Leaving Delaware? The Essential Role of Specialized...

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2026/02/03

Who should be trusted to govern the most powerful relationships in the economy: markets, managers, or courts? During this conversation, we are joined by two legal scholars, Zohar Goshen and Tomer Stein, whose newest article focuses on the role of specialized corporate courts. Their shared insight is that corporate relationships are inherently incomplete, and no contract can anticipate every future conflict. This is why states establish business courts: to enforce fiduciary duties and resolve ...

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34:44

The Black Hole of Capital Gains: ETF Swap Funds

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2026/01/20

Billions of dollars are flowing into a new tax strategy known as ETF swap funds, which critics say allow the ultra-wealthy to avoid capital gains tax, legally. The strategy has drawn attention from lawmakers and some academics for testing the limits of existing tax law. In this episode of Bite-Sized Business Law, host Amy Martella speaks with Jeffrey Colon, a professor at Fordham Law whose research focuses on tax and financial law. Jeff is the author of the forthcoming DePaul Law Review artic...

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31:55

Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial...

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2026/01/06

Corporate statements about race have become commonplace, yet they often deliver far less than they promise. In this episode of Bite-Sized Business Law, host Amy Martella speaks with Atinuke Adediran, Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, about her book Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress. Drawing on research at the intersection of business, law, and society, Professor Adediran examines how corporate disclosures shape public understanding of racial inequality, and h...

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