#AcademicRunPlaylist - 4/30/25

It was a gorgeous spring day, and luckily I was able to go out for a nice run and listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a fantastic discussion between Ann Lipton and Michael Levin on the bonkers Target "securities fraud" lawsuit and the definition of proxy solicitation on the Shareholder Primacy podcast. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwgbxHjN18U

Next was a great talk by Sam Reiter on contingency and convergence in brains and behavior across species at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gQ6ZfaC1lU

Next was a compelling conversation with Kaleb Byars on corporate recidivism and sentencing guidelines on the Business Scholarship Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be7BnUfPkFg

Next was a fascinating talk by Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan on what ancient Javanese monuments reveal about the economic and governmental system at the Crawford School of Public Policy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C2nIR7HM4c

Next was an unfortunately timely talk by Volker Roelcke on lessons for medicine and politics from Nazi medical crimes at the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHMAIeg6ZNI

Next was a slate of talks at the Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute | ALTI:

Max van Iersel - modeling merger policy impact on startups - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Do-mHqv4_4

Kena Zhang - data/compute role in AI antitrust - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c_D1t-8nmw

Georgiana Mirza - digital ecosystems in EU competition law - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJNszMHBDl0

David van Wamel - interim measures in digital markets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhRizmOyQV4

Belle Beems - intersection of competition law, DMA, GDPR, and cross-state cooperation (highly recommend) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llij-sp9AGg

Next was a thought-provoking talk by Julia C Morse on the issues with using historical analogies in AI governance at the Oxford Martin School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UR_eN08Cfk

Next was an amazing talk by Seth Rockman on the antebellum origins of American business ethics at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Rockman highlights how frictions that emerged in North/South commerce built a separate sphere where different ethical rules applied. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMdQTnKxxIU

Next was an excellent panel on AI in hiring and the future of work at Stanford Law School with Zev J. Eigen, Samuel Dahan, and Veena Dubal (who is absolutely on fire here!). Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6aJZnNCEM

Last was "The Myth of Race" by Robert Sussman. This book traces the formulation of biological race as an idea from the Spanish Inquisition to the American eugenic period, its deep entanglement with Nazism, and its continuation to the modern day. After reviewing the scientific evidence to thoroughly dispel the inherent unscientific nature of this idea, Sussman exposes the links between individuals and organizations across the US and Europe, as well as funding sources of more of the recent scientific racists. Given the strengthening of this idea in the camp spouting "AGI" nonsense, this book is more urgent than ever. Highly recommend https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674660038