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From Columbia Law School and the Millstein Center, the popular podcast returns. Co-hosts Professors Eric Talley and Talia Gillis are joined by experts to explore complex economic phenomena impacting workers, investors, companies, and communities.

The high-risk, high-reward venture capital industry is also highly white and highly male. But could V.C. deals be structured differently to mitigate implicit bias and give an equal shot to women and people of color?

Climate change and racial justice are issues on the boardroom table as shareholder activists try to force corporations to act on environmental and diversity matters. Anne E. Robinson ’94, Vanguard general counsel, talks about the priorities of institutional investors when ESG questions are put to a vote. 

With a stock trading app on their phones and a lot of time on their hands, individual investors flooded into the market during the pandemic—with wild results. Co-hosts Professor Eric Talley and Millstein Center Research Fellow Kate Waldock ’23 talk to Professor Joshua Mitts about pandemic meme trading and what it means for market regulation.

From Columbia Law School and the Millstein Center, the popular podcast returns for a second season to examine the pandemic’s lingering economic effects on workers, investors, and corporations. Co-hosts Professor Eric Talley and Research Fellow Kate Waldock ’23 are joined by experts who have a knack for explaining the complex economic phenomena unfolding in a world changed by COVID-19. All episodes now available.

Do Americans want to go back to work? And on what terms? Co-hosts Professor Eric Talley and Millstein Center Research Fellow Kate Waldock ’23 are joined by Professor Kate Andrias to talk about labor shortages, strikes, and the future of work.

Co-hosts Professor Eric Talley and Millstein Center Research Fellow Kate Waldock ’23 are joined by NPR’s Stacey Vanek Smith JRN ’03 to introduce the second season of Columbia Law School’s podcast Beyond Unprecedented: The Post-Pandemic Economy.

In the final episode of Columbia Law’s limited podcast series, hosted by Professor Eric Talley, Professors Anu Bradford and Petros Mavroidis discuss the effects of the pandemic on global trade and whether the World Trade Organization and the European Union can handle political upheavals exacerbated by the health crisis, Brexit, and the U.S.-China trade war. 

In episode five of Columbia Law’s new limited podcast series, hosted by Professor Eric Talley, corporate governance experts Ira M. Millstein and Leo E. Strine Jr. discuss how companies must begin valuing their workers and their environmental impact as highly as their shareholders in order to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In episode four of Columbia Law’s new limited podcast series, hosted by Professor Eric Talley, Professors Lynnise Pantin and Tim Wu discuss the obstacles and opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 pandemic—and government’s role in helping them.