September 2024

 The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics is hosting a virtual ESG and Compliance Conference on November 7.  I love to hear academics talk about these issues at conferences but because I still engage in the practice of law and I teach about compliance, governance, and sustainability, I find the conversations are very different when listening to practitioners.

My panel is titled ESG Due Diligence Across the Corporate Lifecycle From Start-Up to Maturity: The Roles of Compliance, Ethics, Legal, and the Board. My co-panelists, Ahpaly Coradin, Partner, Pierson Ferdinand, and Eugenia di Marco, a startup founder and international legal advisor, and I will focus on:

  •  how to measure and prioritize ESG factors at different stages of a company’s life cycle, according to a company’s industry, and technology use.
  •  how ESG creates value in M&A  beyond risk mitigation and learn the impact of ESG on target selection, valuation, and integration.
  • board and management responsibilities in overseeing and managing ESG-related risks, particularly in light of Caremark duties and Marchand.

Date & Time: Thursday, November 7 from 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM central time

Other topics that speakers will discuss include:

  • Supply chains and European due diligence 
  • Global regulatory and legislative developments
  • Sustainable governance

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Position Summary:

The University of Dayton School of Law invites applications for multiple tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin August 16, 2025. Areas of need include contracts, business organizations, torts, criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, family law, property, wills and trusts, secured transactions, and tax. The School of Law has a history of innovation and is a leader in international education. We have one of the first online JD programs, several successful non-JD programs, and fourteen law school partners around the world.

Located in Dayton, Ohio, our university offers more than just a rewarding career. Dayton boasts extensive green space, providing ample opportunities for outdoor recreation and relaxation. With a low cost of living, you can enjoy a comfortable lifestyle while pursuing your passion for teaching and research. Additionally, Dayton’s dynamic arts scene offers a rich cultural experience, making it a great place to live, work, and thrive. Go to daytoncvb.com daytoncvb.com for more information about the area.

UD is one of the nation’s largest Catholic universities, and the largest private university in Ohio. Embedded in the dynamic city of Dayton, OH, and grounded in its Catholic, Marianist tradition, UD provides education to develop the whole student

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The following comes to us from friends-of-the-BLPB J.S. Nelson and Geeyoung Min:

Dear Business Law Professor Blog readers,

This is a call to participate in Law & Society CRN 46’s programming. CRN 46 broadly covers Corporate and Securities Law in Society.

The 2025 Law & Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting is scheduled for Chicago, Illinois, USA from May 22-25, 2025. The meeting will be hosted at the Hyatt Regency. This year’s sessions will take place in-person.

If you are a member of our CRN and on our CRN email list, we will send you several reminders of deadlines as they approach from our CRN’s email list. Of course, if you would like to be removed from these emails at any point, simply let us know.

If you have been forwarded this message, are not on our direct CRN 46 mailing list and want to be, please fill out your information here.

Meanwhile, the 2025 LSA Call-for-Participation submission window is now open. 

Submissions Now Open!

>> Click Here to Visit the 2025 Conference Website!

>> Submit an Abstract or Session!

The deadline for our Call for Submissions is October 15, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. ET (USA and Canada).

There are…

The University of Louisville’s Brandeis School of Law invites applications for tenure-track full-time faculty positions at the Assistant/Associate level position to commence on July 1, 2025.  Specific curricular needs are for estate planning and tax. Academic rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

The Louis D. Brandeis School of Law: The Brandeis School of Law is committed to excellence in preparing lawyers for productive careers. The school boasts an excellent faculty with a deep commitment to teaching and academic support, and a low student-faculty ratio.  Our smaller class sizes foster close interaction between students and faculty, nurture a culture of collegial learning, and provide opportunities for individualized attention.  In addition to teaching excellence, our faculty is deeply committed to producing excellent scholarship and to community engagement.  Our faculty boasts many engaged scholars.

The School of Law strives to promote collegiality and professionalism, and its culture is based on civility and respect for all students, faculty, and staff. The school also seeks to admit and support a diverse law school population and provides opportunities to share and discuss differing opinions. 

Applicants: Applicants for this position should have distinguished academic credentials, a record of scholarship, and a strong commitment…

Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS), invites applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions for required JD and upper-level JD courses including Income Tax, Estates, and Business Law courses.  Entry-level, junior, and senior lateral candidates will be considered. The school’s curricular needs include both residential and online courses.  Candidates should demonstrate evidence of, or potential for, outstanding scholarly achievement and strong, innovative, and engaged residential and/or online teaching. In addition to teaching, faculty provide service to VLGS and engage with other professionals and the public to contribute to the intellectual exchange of ideas, improve the law, and educate the public about the law, with an eye towards social justice.

Applicants must complete an online application and electronically submit (1) a cover letter; (2) a curriculum vitae; (3) a research agenda; and (4) the names and contact information of three references at recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/jobs/Details/2659572/….

 VLGS will only contact references for finalists. VLGS strongly encourages applications from those who would bring increased diversity to our community.

Direct inquiries about the position to Faculty Appointments Committee Chair, Anna Connolly at aconnolly@vermontlaw.edu

The positions will remain open until filled.  

LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL, LOS ANGELES

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Subjects: All subject areas but particularly interested in torts, property, and contracts

Date: August 20, 2024

Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (LLS) invites applications for full-time tenure-track and tenured faculty positions to begin in the 2025-2026 academic year. We seek applicants who will excel in scholarship, teaching and service. We are especially interested in applicants who have impactful research agendas and who desire to attend to systemic injustice in their teaching, regardless of the legal subject area. Applicants must have a degree from an ABA-accredited law school (or foreign equivalent), excellent academic credentials, demonstrated achievement or potential as a scholar and teacher, and a commitment to our social justice mission.

The selected candidates will join our diverse community of leading scholars in the areas of criminal law and criminal law reform, intellectual property, tax law, civil litigation, business and innovation law, employment and labor law, and immigration and civil rights law, among others. We boast over twenty live-client clinics, a robust business, law and technology program, and an award-winning trial advocacy program. Our location in downtown Los Angeles complements our global and cutting-edge approach to scholarship and education. Our network of…

On this Labor Day, some of us business law profs are about to start our semesters, while others are already a few weeks into the fall term.  However, we all understand that our profession involves labors of many kinds.  Seldom do we reflect on those labors with the thought of planning for a positive experience for all.  Today seems like a good time to do that.

A bit more than two weeks ago (August 15), as many of us were beginning to teach for the semester, our law professor colleague Etienne Toussaint (University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law, @ProfToussaint) posted a set of tips and strategies for law professors on Twitter (rebranded as X).  His counsel is so wonderful–so apt.  I asked if I could re-publish his post here, and he gave me permission to do that.  So, here are Etienne’s words of advice, introduced as he introduced them in his original post.

I always get nervous, so planning helps.

Here are ten tips and strategies to help you (and me) get mentally prepared and set a positive tone in the classroom to ensure a great experience for both you and your students this upcoming academic…