Founded in 1924, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (International) is an association of teachers and scholars in the fields of business law, legal environment, and law-related courses outside of professional law schools. Our nearly 1,000 members teach primarily in schools of business in colleges and universities, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Members come from all fifty states, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, England, and a number of other nations.
The Academy provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, and encourages support and cooperation among those who teach and conduct research in the field of legal studies. The Academy publishes two top-tier journals: the American Business Law Journal (ABLJ) and the Journal of Legal Studies Education (JLSE). Members receive hard copies of both journals and have electronic access to them via Wiley Online Library on the Members’ Only page.
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is responsible for the governance, corporate oversight, and strategic direction of the Academy. Members have a fiduciary responsibility to the Academy and preserve the institution’s financial health while ensuring fulfillment of the Academy’s mission.
Elizabeth A. Brown
Liz Brown earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College, where she was a John Harvard Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. She represented Fortune 100 companies for 13 years before joining the Bentley faculty, where she is a tenured professor. As a former litigation partner in an international law firm specializing in intellectual property, her experience with practical applications of law in business informs her award-winning teaching and research. Her specific interests include emerging technologies, data privacy legislation, the regulation of wearable sensor data, and the ethical resolution of conflicts between individual civil rights and corporate religious freedom. She is the author of Life After Law (2013) and the co-author of How to Leave the Law (2022).
Leora F. Eisenstadt
Leora Eisenstadt is Associate Professor of Legal Studies and the Murray Shusterman Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. She is the Founding Director of the Center for Ethics, Diversity and Workplace Culture (CEDWC). Leora’s areas of scholarship include employment law, race and the law, sex discrimination and sexual harassment, and whistleblowing. Her publications have appeared in the Georgia Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, among others. Leora’s op-Eds and commentary have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the NY Post, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Dallas Morning News. Her scholarly work and teaching have earned her numerous teaching and best paper awards.
Leora received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, her B.A. from Yale University, and her L.L.M. in Legal Education from Temple University. Prior to joining Temple University, Leora practiced in the Labor & Employment Group at Dechert LLP.
Kabrina Chang
Kabrina Krebel Chang is a Clinical Associate Professor of Business Law at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. She teaches Introduction to Business Law, Employment law, and Business, Justice, and Responsibility in the undergraduate program and Employment Law in the MBA program. Professor Chang’s research focuses on employment matters, in particular the future of work including the impact of social media on management decisions and employee rights, and disability issues. She has also written on corporate social advocacy. Her work has been published in academic journals, news outlets such at The New York Times, Quartz.com, Bloomberg, and The Boston Globe, and in magazines such as Forbes, Bloomberg, and Harvard Business Review. She is the co-author of Business and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments with Cynthia Clark. Professor Chang has won several awards for her teaching and writing. Before she changed careers, Professor Chang was a trial lawyer in in private practice.
Keith Diener
Dr. Keith William Diener is a tenured Full Professor at Stockton University in New Jersey where he teaches courses in law and ethics. He holds two doctoral degrees, in law and business ethics, and two masters’ degrees, in international law and philosophy from Georgetown University, Georgia State University, and George Washington University. He previously held visiting positions at the George Washington University and the Universidad de La Salle, and an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Maryland, Global Campus. Dr. Diener has published extensively on legal and ethical issues and received numerous research awards from national and international law and ethics organizations. He is the author of the book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Business Ethics (Routledge, 2022), and is a licensed attorney in New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
Aquesha Daniels
Aquesha Daniels is a Clinical Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Indianapolis. Previously, she served as an Associate Professor of Management and the inaugural Director of Engagement and Impact at Western Kentucky University’s Gordon Ford College of Business. Her interdisciplinary research examines SME firm justice and democratic corporate governance, with a focus on the intersection of law, business, and organizational decision-making.
She is the lead author of the bestselling Employment Law for Business, published by McGraw Hill. Her legal experience spans private practice and state government, where she has consulted in business, employment, and immigration law. A member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business since 2016 and the Florida Bar since 2012, she was honored with the ALSB Trailblazer Award in 2026. Her contributions to teaching, service, leadership, and community engagement have earned numerous distinctions, including being a 2025 For a Real Change Honoree, a 2024 NAACP of Bowling Green Ambassador of Education Honoree, as well as multiple faculty awards for student advising and public service.
Philip M. Nichols
Philip M. Nichols is the Joseph Kolodny Professor of Social Responsibility in Business and a Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In general he studies the ways in which emerging economies change to enable broader ranges of relationships, but much of his research focusses on the nature of and control of corruption. He has worked in or with people and organizations in more than twenty countries on these issues. Phil has joyfully served as the president of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, as well as co-chair of the American Society of International Law’s Economic Law Interest Group and its Anti-Corruption Law Interest Group, and as co-chair of UN/CEFACT LG, a United Nations expert committee on trade facilitation and electronic commerce. Phil teaches international subjects and has received several teaching awards, including the Academy’s John Bonsignore Memorial Award. The ALSB has played a critical role in Phil’s life, and he is grateful for the opportunity to pay that forward.
Gerlinde Berger-Walliser
Gerlinde Berger-Walliser is Associate Professor of Business Law and Department Head at the University of Connecticut School of Business. Her research compares U.S. business law with European civil law systems, focusing on the positive role business can play in transnational, intergovernmental, and public-private governance, with particular attention to corporate social responsibility. She also conducts research in proactive law, contract visualization and legal design.
Her work has been published in leading U.S. journals including the American Business Law Journal, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Northwestern Journal of Int’l Law & Business, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Georgetown Journal of Int’l Law, and several prominent European law reviews.
Dr. Berger-Walliser has served as an officer for the ALSB International Section and is Editor-in-Chief of the American Business Law Journal. She previously held academic positions in France and Germany, was admitted to the German Bar, and is a founding member of the French ALSB Executive Committee.
Susan (Stacey) Supina
Susan (Stacey) Supina is an assistant professor at the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, where she teaches several compliance and business law courses. She also teaches compliance courses at Peter Pazmany Catholic University in Budapest and at St. Thomas Law.
Prior to joining St. Thomas, Supina served as general counsel and director of governance, risk and compliance for a legal services company. She also worked in private practice and as a licensed customs broker. Supina’s professional background includes corporate compliance, business-to-business contracting, international trade, and employment issues.
She received her JD from the University of Minnesota Law School and her LLM from University College London. Her research interests involve corporate governance, compliance strategy, and business law pedagogy. At ALSB, Supina serves as the Journal of Legal Studies Education editor-in-chief and as Ethics Section chair.
Jehan El-Jourbagy
Starting in this role in 2024, the 100th Anniversary of the ALSB, Jehan also serves as an Associate Professor of Business Law & Ethics at Georgia College & State University.
Jehan has been an active member of the Academy since 2015 and is a past chair of the Ethics Section. She is also a past president of the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business (SEALSB) and has published in both the American Business Law Journal and the Journal of Legal Studies Education. She assisted the ALSB Blue-Ribbon Committee by drafting and presenting a report section on the Future of the ALSB and has been invited to share her thoughts on engaging students at the ALSB’s Business Law Career Clinic.
Jehan lives with her husband and four school-aged children in her hometown of Monticello.
Lara Kessler
Lara Kessler holds a B.A. in French from Northern Arizona University, an M.S.A. from Grand Valley State University, and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School. She is a licensed attorney in Tennessee and a Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.) in both Tennessee and Michigan.
Lara brings a diverse professional background, having served as a Captain in the United States Air Force, where she spent four years as an Assistant Staff Judge Advocate and worked as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Texas.
Currently, Lara teaches individual income tax and ethics at the undergraduate level and business law at the graduate level. In addition to her academic role, she works as a tax manager during the business season at a regional CPA firm.
She is honored and excited to serve as the new Chief Academic Officer (CAO) of such a wonderful organization, bringing her passion for education, ethics, and public service to the role.
Justín Marcos Reyna
Justín Marcos Reyna, Esq., is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Prof. Reyna earned his Juris Doctor from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and his Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Classics from the University of Rochester.
After more than a decade in the Department of Logistics, Business, and Public Policy, where he served as Associate Area Chair, Prof. Reyna joined the Department of Accounting and Information Assurance in August 2026.
Professionally, Prof. Reyna‘s career has spanned law, public service, and entrepreneurship.
Today, Prof. Reyna teaches at the frontier of law and technology, exploring the legal environments of emerging fields such as space/artificial intelligence and intellectual property
and entrepreneurship with the indigenous communities in the Southwest.