Welcome to Beaver Sound, the podcast section of The Beaver - LSESU's independent student newspaper! We host multiple student-run shows such as Born with an Identity Crisis, What if?: The Future's Legal Podcast, and The Oeuvre.
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6: What if greater innovation comes with greater risk?
In this episode, we are joined by Jonathan Bloom, a former partner at leading international law firms including White & Case, Ropes & Gray, and Jones Day. Drawing on decades of experience advising investment banks, institutional investors, and high-growth companies, Jonathan takes us inside the often-overlooked world of startup governance. From common governance mistakes to the questions every founder should ask before taking investment, this conversation offers valuable insights for entrepreneurs, aspiring founders, and anyone interested in the interaction between commercial law and innovation.
6 Jun 2026
5: What if compliance in AI isn’t enough?
In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Emre Kazim, co-founder and co-CEO of Holistic AI.
Through contrasting the EU AI Act to the UK’s pro-innovation approach, this episode examines whether the law can keep pace with rapidly evolving technology.
We also explore the reasons why companies still ought to act responsibly in the absence of up-to-date regulation and the importance of corporate governance. We discuss AI auditing, risk, accountability, and whether governance should be seen as a barrier to innovation.
29 Mar 2026
4: What If AI Replaces the Way Lawyers Are Trained, and at What Cost?
In this episode, we are joined by Mike Kochkin, Founder and CEO of BeSavvy, and Oliver Lipscombe, a final-year LLB student at LSE and part of the BeSavvy team, to explore how artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape legal training.
Drawing on Mike’s experience at Latham & Watkins and his work building BeSavvy, we examine how simulation-based AI tools aim to replicate the realities of elite legal practice. Oliver offers a student perspective, discussing how these tools are being adopted by aspiring lawyers and what this means for the future of legal education.
The conversation goes beyond the surface-level excitement around AI to ask harder questions: Can AI genuinely replicate the depth of traditional legal training? What is gained in efficiency, and what might be lost in judgement, mentorship, and professional development? And ultimately, if AI transforms how lawyers are trained, what are the long-term implications for the profession?
This episode challenges the assumption that innovation is always progress, and instead asks what the true cost of that transformation might be.
Guests: Mike Kochkin & Oliver Lipscombe
Hosts: Raana Syed and Hasti Hashemi
Editors: Salma Abuelatta and Noor Sayegh
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2: What you didn't know about the Environment- Palm Oil and Malaysian Wildfires
Published 8 Feb 2023 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The other really important point is the type of soil that the plantations are on. So there's a massive difference between mineral soils and organic peat soils. If you grow on mineral soil at least a far far less greenhouse gas emissions whereas on the organic soils the soil is made of carbon it's really carbon -rich more than 50 % of the soil is carbon and when you drain that soil so it's no longer swampy you expose that carbon to the air and it begins to decompose and release carbon dioxide and the other problem with these organic soils is that they can catch fire as well. So I would say like plantations on land that has been a plantation for a very long time and on mineral soil is sustainable and that tends to be those tend to be the plantations that get certified as sustainable by organisations such as the round table for sustainable palm oil. […]
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