Professor Afsharipour Helps Teach Young 'Million Bazillion' Listeners About M&A
Professor Afra Afsharipour helped the team at Million Bazillion--the Marketplace podcast that explains economic issues to children--develop an episode focused on mergers and acquisitions.
The May 26 episode centers on a question from a 9-year-old named Cora, who wonders why a company might want to buy another company.
Afra Afsharipour is John D. Ayer Professor of Law and director of the Center for Business Law and Society at UC Davis School of Law. Her areas of research include corporate law and governance, mergers and acquisitions, transactional law, and the legal profession. From 2018-2024, she served as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Her scholarship has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and UC Davis Law Review, among other leading publications.