In Season 14, Episode 9 of The Explainer podcast, Marcia Narine Weldon, director of the transactional skills program and faculty coordinator of the business compliance & sustainability concentration and transactional law concentration, looks at the issues driving Elon Musk and Sam Altman's fight for control of OpenAI. The conflict is playing out in the courts, with lawsuits and countersuits, and in the public eye, with accusations and rebuttals exchanged between Musk and Altman. The ultimate resolution will have a significant impact on the future trajectory of OpenAI and the wider AI landscape. Listen to the podcast here.
Narine Weldon’s teaching and research interests include corporate governance, employment law, regulatory compliance, corporate social responsibility, and the intersection of business and human rights. She has taught civil procedure, business associations, professional responsibility, employment law, business and human rights, corporate governance, compliance, and social responsibility, and legal issues for startups, entrepreneurs, and small businesses at other institutions.
She has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Verge, the Guardian, NPR Marketplace, Compliance Week, and other news outlets around the world. She has served as a mentor for the Law School’s LawWithoutWalls since its inception, and blogs weekly for the Business Law Professor Blog.
