Amy Martella ’07, executive director of Fordham Law School’s Corporate Law Center, shares with Pod Bible Magazine her journey from a podcast listener to a host, her motivations behind creating a business law podcast (“Bite-Sized Business Law”), and the future business law trends that will shape the corporate world.
What motivated you to start a podcast focused on business law?
As the Executive Director of the Corporate Law Center at Fordham Law School, I’m constantly convening events, lectures, roundtables, conferences, and debates to study and discuss business and financial law. Our students, faculty, and alumni really like the work we do, but we knew we could elevate it to an even broader audience via podcasting.
Corporations have a huge impact on society, from the economy to politics to the tech we use to shaping our government’s foreign policy. And you don’t have to be a lawyer or an industry insider to have a vested interest in what’s happening in the business world. But when you open the newspaper or read traditional media, you often get a take that either doesn’t examine the issue deeply enough or is only what the finance industry wants you to know. Our expert guests, including scholars, journalists, corporate lawyers, authors, and business leaders, provide deeper, albeit often controversial, insights that you won’t get from other sources. My goal is to wrestle with ideas and question commonly held assumptions about the way corporations affect our daily lives. I think Bite-Sized Business Law does a solid job of going beyond informing our audience to give them a true understanding of what motivates corporate behavior, moves the markets, and makes the world go ‘round.
Read “Bite-Sized Business Law: Beyond the headlines with Amy Martella” in Pod Bible Magazine.