Leigh Anenson
T. Leigh Anenson, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., is a Professor of Business Law at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Before joining the Executive Committee, she held leadership positions in the academy as a past president of the International Law Section and the Pacific Southwest region. Anenson is internationally recognized for significant contributions to the understanding of business law, publishing in journals and with publishing houses of the highest quality. She has received numerous research awards and held visiting fellowships from universities throughout the world. She is consistently ranked in the top 5% of authors across all disciplines on the Social Science Research Network. Anenson’s work has also contributed to lawmaking with references in forty federal, state, and territorial court decisions. Anenson has earned several distinguished teaching awards and has been nationally recognized by Poets & Quants as a Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professor. She was also honored as the University of Maryland’s Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. Prior to academia, she held positions in business and law as an international consultant, export manager, judicial attorney, and business litigator.
Alex Reed
Alex Reed is a Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. Before joining the Executive Committee, he served as an officer of both the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business and the ALSB’s Employment Law Section.
Alex teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on negotiation and employment law and is a member of UGA’s Teaching Academy. His research focuses on employment discrimination, and his scholarship has appeared in such journals as the American Business Law Journal, Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law, and University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law. Alex considers it a privilege to serve an organization that has given so much to so many.
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.
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.
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.
Rob Landry
Dr. Rob Landry is a Distinguished Professor of Finance in the College of Business and Industry at Jacksonville State University, where he teaches business law, real estate and economics courses. He earned a B.S. from the University of North Alabama, an M.P.A. from Jacksonville State University and a Ph.D. from Auburn University. He holds two law degrees, having earned his Juris Doctorate, magna cum laude, from the University of Alabama School of Law and an LL.M., with Distinction, from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor Landry has published over fifty academic articles in numerous leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including the American Business Law Journal and the Journal of Legal Studies Education. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the American Business Law Journal and is a past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Legal Studies Education.
Dale Thompson
Dale Thompson is a professor in the Department of Ethics and Business Law at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business. He teaches courses in business law, and in health care law and ethics. His current research cuts across applied business policies, including health care, financial regulation and arbitration.
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.