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Professor Murray teaches business law, business ethics, and alternative dispute resolution courses to undergraduate and graduate students. Currently, his research focuses on corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, sports law, and social entrepreneurship law issues.

Professor Murray is the 2018-19 President of the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business (“SEALSB”) and is a co-editor of the Business Law Professor Blog. His articles have been published in a variety of journals, including the American Business Law Journal, the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, the Harvard Business Law Review, and the Maryland Law Review. Read More

Last week, I attended and presented at my first legal studies in business school conference, the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business (“SEALSB”) annual conference.  On this recent trip, I was able to meet a number of other professors who hold positions similar to mine at other business schools.  Most of the professors were from the southeast, but we also had professors from California, Michigan, Minnesota, and New York.

One of the new pieces of information I learned was that, while I was correct in my previous post stating that there is no “meat market” equivalent for legal studies in business school positions, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (“ALSB”) does send out job postings, on occasion, to its members.  Also, more than one professor in attendance claimed to have obtained his/her current position by attending the ALSB annual meeting and networking.

In this post, I will discuss some of the differences I see between my current job as a professor teaching law in a business school and my previous job as a law professor in a law school.  I draw on my own experiences and conversations I have had with many professors across the country, at both…

Thanks to Paul Caron and the BLPB editors for allowing me to join the blog as a contributing editor. 

I will post from time to time on my scholarly interests,
which include legal issues involved in corporate governance, mergers &
acquisitions, entrepreneurship, and social enterprise.  Currently, as Stefan mentioned in his kind introduction, most of my
time has been devoted to social enterprise law, especially
benefit corporation law. 

For my first few posts, however, I am going to write about
landing a job teaching law in a business school and how working at a business
school differs from working at a law school. 
This fall, I moved from a law professor position at Regent University
School of Law to a business school position at Belmont University.  The move has been a good one, and though my
appointment is in the business school, I will also be teaching Business
Associations in Belmont’s law school, starting next year. 

With the entry and lateral markets so weak at
law schools across the country, given
the 45% drop in LSAT test takers since 2009, I imagine some readers are
considering business school positions. 

Finding a legal studies position in a business school can…