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Director of the NCPPR's Free Enterprise Project. Prior experience includes 15+ years as a law professor, two federal judicial clerkships, private practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, and 6 years enlisted active duty (US Army). Immigrant (naturalized).

Like last year, I am going to compile postings of legal studies professor positions in business schools. Perhaps, it is more accurate to say “not in law schools,” as some of these positions may be in political science departments and the like.

For this list, I am only including full-time positions (tenure-track, clinical, visiting, or full-time instructor positions). Most of the positions start in the fall of 2016, but some may start in January of 2016. Feel free to send me any relevant positions to post. I will update the list from time to time.

Updated 1/28/16

Belmont University (assistant, tenure track) (healthcare management/health law)

Bentley University (assistant) (business law and tax)

Blinn College (full-time)

Boise State University (tenure-track) (posted 10/7/15)

Bridgewater State University (tenure-track) (posted 10/30/15) 

Carleton (Canada) (3 assistant professor positions) (deadline 11/27/15) (posted 10/26/15)

College of the Bahamas (assistant) (posted 9/30/15)

Dakota State University (tenure-track) (posted 1/28/16)

Dutchess Community College (tenure track) (posted 1/28/16)

Eastern Illinois University (tenure track) (JD+CPA or LLM in tax) (review begins 9/2/15)

Farmingdale State College (lecturer) (posted 10/7/15)

Fort Hays State University (tenure-track) (posted 1/28/16)

Georgia Gwinnett College (assistant)

IMT Institute (Italy) (professor)

Indiana University (tenure track & non-tenure track positions)…

Among the DGCL amendments this year were a number of amendments to the Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (“PBC”) Law. 

I refer to the Delaware PBC amendments as “The Etsy Amendments” because I believe (without being sure) that a main motivation in passing these amendments was to make it easier for Etsy (among other companies) to become a Delaware PBC. These amendments are effective as of August 1, 2015.

As mentioned in a previous post, Etsy is a certified B corporation and a Delaware C-corporation. According to B Lab’s terms for certified B corporations, Etsy will have to convert to a Delaware PBC by August 1, 2017 or forfeit its certification. This assumes that B Lab will not change its requirements or make an exception for publicly-traded companies.

The amendments to the PBC law are summarized below:

  • Eliminates requirement of “PBC” or “Public Benefit Corporation” in the entity’s formal name. This amendment makes it easier and less costly for existing entities to convert, but the amendment also makes it more difficult for researchers (and the rest of the public) to track the PBCs. In addition to the cost of changing names, Rick Alexander notes in his

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Bridget Crawford (Pace Law) has posted an extensive list of law school professors on Twitter that is available here.

Previously, I compiled a list of business law professors, in both business schools and law schools, but to avoid overlapping with Bridget’s list, I am only including business school legal studies professors in this updated list.

I will update the list from time to time. Updated: August 8, 2020.

Thomas Baker III (Georgia) – @DrTab3

Perry Binder (Georgia State) – @Perry_Binder

Jody Blanke (Mercer) – @JodyBlanke

Liz Brown (Bentley) – @proflizbrown

Seletha Butler (Georgia Tech) – @ProfSButler

Kabrina Chang (Boston University) – @ProfessorChang

Peter Conti-Brown (Penn/Wharton) – @PeterContiBrown

Greg Day (Georgia) – @gregrrday

Laura Dove (Troy) – @LauraRDove

Marc Edelman (CUNY) – @MarcEdelman

Leora Eisenstadt (Temple) – @LeoraEisenstadt

Adam Epstein (Central Michigan) – @AdamEpstein

Kevin Fandl (Temple) – @kfandl

Jason Gordon (Georgia Gwinnett) – @JMGordonLaw

Nathaniel Grow (Indiana) – @NathanielGrow

Enrique Guerra-Pujol (Central Florida) – @lawscholar

Lori Harris-Ransom (Caldwell) – @HarrisRansom

Laura Pincus Hartman (DePaul) – @LauraHartman

John Holden (Oklahoma State) – @Johnsportslaw

David Jess (Michigan) – @ProfessorHess

Lindsay Jones (UGA) – @profsainjones

Debbie Kaminer (CUNY) – @dkaminer2

Kathryn Kisska-Schulze (Clemson) – @ KKisska13

Mike Koval (Salisbury) – @MikeKoval123

Jeremy Kress…

Kelley

The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University has multiple open positions in their Business Law and Ethics Department.

Kelley is well known in business school circles for having a strong legal studies program. Among the many fine faculty members are my ALSB mentor Jamie Prenkert (department chair) and BLPB guest-blogger Todd Haugh. 

Information about these positions is available after the break.

Library

A number of months ago, a friend told me about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. The vision of the Imagination Library is “to foster a love of reading among [the] county’s preschool children and their families by providing them with the gift of a specially selected book each month.”

The books are free of charge, and anyone with preschool children can sign up, regardless of family income. Our two-year old son loves getting the books in the mail.  

While the Imagination Library has already served over 800,000 children, I wonder if their choice architecture is limiting their reach. Also, I wonder if their choice architecture is preventing use of the program by families who need the books the most. Currently, families can sign up online to receive the books. It is a simple process, but you need to have heard about the program, need to have internet access, and need to be able to fill out the sign-up questions.

A nudge, such as an opt-out form (through the mail, or, if allowed, at the hospital) might allow the Imagination Library to reach a greater number of children. (If Gerber Life Insurance knows when we have a baby, I…

Conscious

Recently, I finished reading Conscious Capitalism, written by Whole Foods Market co-CEO John Mackey and Babson College professor Raj Sisodia.

The book is much more “popular press” than academic, as should be clear from the splashy subtitle “liberating the heroic spirit of business.” There is a bit of academic influence in the appendix and notes, but it is mostly social business advocacy and story telling. In fact, the authors state that the primary purpose of the book “is to inspire the creation of more conscious businesses: businesses galvanized by higher purposes that serve and align the interests of all their major stakeholders.” (pg. 8). The book is interesting, passionate, and may accomplish its primary purpose.

The authors paint a compelling picture of Whole Foods Market and similar companies like Trader Joe’s, The Container Store, Costco, and Southwest Airlines. These companies appear to take a long-term view and consider what is best for all their stakeholders. I would have appreciated, however, more attention to the struggles the companies must have faced in attempting to satisfy all of their stakeholders. After finishing the book, I was left wishing the authors would have spent more time discussing how to make decisions in…