2018 ALSB National Proceedings
Selected Refereed Papers Delivered at the 2018 ALSB Annual ConferencePortland, Oregon
Editor’s Forward
The 93rd annual meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business was held in August 2018, in Portland, Oregon. The papers published in these Proceedings were double blind reviewed by members of the Academy. Papers were recommended for publication based on the quality of the research and the relevance of the topic to the substantive areas or pedagogy of business law or legal studies.
Several papers merit special mention:
Outstanding Proceedings Paper:
Blockchain, Law, and Improving Business Supply Chains: The Need for Governance and Legal Frameworks to Achieve Sustainability by Adam Sulkowski
Distinguished Proceedings Papers:
Belief v. Belief: Resolving Religious Conflicts in the Workplace by Liz Brown and Inara Scott
Vaulted Into Victims: Preventing Further Sexual Abuse in U.S. Olympic Sports Through Unionization and Whistleblowing Systems by Marc Edelman and Jennifer Pacella.
The Business of Guns: The Second Amendment and Firearms Commerce by Corey Ciocchetti
The Ernie King Best Reviewer Award was established in honor of Ernest W. King, long time Proceedings Editor and beloved colleague of many members of the Academy. This award is given to the reviewer whose work made the most significant contribution to enhancing the quality of the paper reviewed.
2018 Ernie King Best Reviewer Award: Matthew Phillips, Wake Forest University
This is my last year as editor of the ALSB Proceedings. It has been a wonderful experience working with the dedicated authors and reviewers whose work makes our Academy the cherished resource that it is for professors of business law throughout the world. My colleague, Linda Ficht of Christopher Newport University, is assuming duties of editor beginning with the 2019 Proceedings. I am certain that this excellent publication is in very capable hands.
I am deeply grateful to the many reviewers for the 2018 ALSB Proceedings. Your time, your thoughtful comments and your good judgment make the Proceedings better every year. Your service to the Proceedings and to the authors is greatly appreciated by me and by all of your colleagues in the Academy.
Best Regards,
Ronnie Cohen, J.D., LL.M.
Christopher Newport University
Newport News, VA
2018 ALSB Proceedings Editor
2018 Proceedings Reviewers
Eliot Axelrod, Baruch College
Thomas Baker, University of Georgia
Karen Bogue, South University
Steven Bretson, Wheaton College
Melissa DeFrench, LexisNexis
Keith Diener, Stockton College
David Dietman, Penn State, Erie
Jehan Eljourbagy, Georgia College & State University
Steve Feldman, Miami University
Linda Ficht, Christopher Newport University
Michael Greiner, Oakland University
Bruce Haller, Malloy College
Nancy Hauserman, University of Iowa, Emerita
Beth Hazels, William Jewell College
Stacey Hickox, Michigan State University
John Katsos, American University of Sharjah
Alan Levy, Brandon University
Bill Livingston, Baker College Center for Graduate Studies
Lucas Loafman, Texas A&M
Marty Ludlum, University of Central Oklahoma
William McDevitt, St. Joseph’s University
Elizabeth McVicker, Metropolitan State University
Tobias Mendelson, University of Alabama, Huntsville
Suzanne Palmer, Albright College
Matthew Phillips, Wake Forest University
Ursula Ramsey, Limestone College
Virginia Rich, Caldwell University
Michelle Romero, Florida International University
Mike Schuster, Oklahoma State University
Jeffrey Todd, Texas State University
Index of Papers
Alternative Organic: Legal Issues in Marketing Uncertified Organic Products by Rita-Marie Reid
AT&T and Time Warner’s Proposed Merger: The Court Battle and Political Undercurrents by Larry Baumgardner
Belief v. Belief: Resolving Religious Conflicts in the Workplace by Liz Brown and Inara Scott
Blockchain, Law, and Improving Business Supply Chains: The Need for Governance and Legal Frameworks to Achieve Sustainability by Adam Sulkowski
Can Bad Law Do Good? A Retrospective on Conflict Minerals Regulation by Karen Woody
Distinguishing Diversity from Inclusion: Legal Necessity or Common Sense Conclusion? by William Murphy
Rebuilding Rwanda: Women as Entrepreneurs of Peace by Abbey Stemler and Karen Woody
Reconciling Transnational Jurisdiction: A Comparative Approach to Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Corporate Defendants in U.S. Courts by Gerlinde Berger-Walliser
Still Searching for Gender Diversity in the C-Suite by Cindy Schipani and Terry Dworkin
The Business of Guns: The Second Amendment and Firearms Commerce by Corey Ciocchetti
The Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act of 2016, Cancer, Industry Pressure and the Precautionary Principle in Limbo by Valerie Watnick
To Innovate or Not to Innovate: Lessons from Historical Patent Pools by Christine Ladwig
Updating Legal Norms for a Precarious Workforce by Robert Sprague
Vaulted Into Victims: Preventing Further Sexual Abuse in U.S. Olympic Sports Through Unionization and Whistleblowing Systems by Marc Edelman and Jennifer Pacella
Winning and Losing in Investor-State Dispute Settlement by Tim Samples
[Cite as: 49 Acad. Legal Stud. In Bus. Nat’l Proc. ____ (2018)]