Within the Academy are nine specific interests sections. These sections sponsor symposia, panels, workshops, and papers at the annual ALSB Conference each August. They also provide teaching and research support in their specialized areas. Membership in the sections is only available to ALSB members and is $10 per year in addition to the annual membership dues. Membership in more than one section is also encouraged. You may join a section listserv by logging into the members’-only page=>here. The nine sections and the contact persons are:

Black Faculty Section

2024-25 Officers:
Chair:  Aaron Pennington, University of Cincinnati
Vice Chair:  Ivy White, Georgia State University
Secretary:  Shawn Grant, Baruch College CUNY
Immediate Past Chair:  Aquesha Daniels, Western Kentucky University
Legacy Projects Committee Lead:  Justin Reyna, University of Maryland
Mentorship Committee Lead:  Robert Thomas, Indiana University

The mission of this Section is to promote, sponsor, and engage in conversation in the ALSB regarding the needs of faculty of color and the role that our home institutions and the ALSB can have in promoting those needs.

The Section will advise and collaborate with the ALSB’s efforts to advance the interests and inclusion of faculty of color as scholars and teachers of law and ethics in business schools. These conservations are inextricably linked to the equity, inclusion, access, and belonging of all ALSB faculty – Black, Hispanic/Latinx, International, LGBTQ+, Indigenous, Asian, White, and other groups. To advance these objectives, the Section will sponsor and conduct panels, symposia, workshops, presentations, and networking events with a focus on historically underrepresented groups in the ALSB while recognizing intersectionality and acknowledging the achieving equity, inclusion, access, and belonging for some ALSB members advances the same for all ALSB members. Accordingly, the Section welcomes all ALSB members to be “in the room.”

Employment Law

2024-25 Officers:
President:  Keri Kozlowski, University of Central Florida
Vice President:  Hannah Weiser, Bentley University
Secretary:  Christopher Dinkel, Oklahoma State

Ethics

2024-25 Officers:

• Chair:  J.S. Nelson, University of Pittsburgh
• Vice Chair:  Suneal Bedi, Indiana University
• Award Chair:  Goldburn P. Maynard, Jr., Indiana University
• Communications Co-Chairs:  Susan (Stacey) Supina, St. Thomas (MN) & Maria Granik, Bentley University

Environmental Law and Sustainability

2024-25 Officers:

• Chair:  Bonnie Persons, California State University Chico
• Vice Chair:  Elissa Marek, Texas State University
• Secretary:  Janet Hale, Texas State University (ret.)

Interdisciplinary Section

2024-25 Officers:

• President:  Angelica Guevara, Indiana University
• Vice President:  Linda Ficht, Purdue University
• Secretary:  Tony Na’ayem, Missouri State University
• Communications:  TBA

2024 Interdisciplinary Spring Newsletter

Interdisciplinary Section Flyer

The mission of the Interdisciplinary Section is to cultivate a dynamic and inclusive forum across various legal disciplines; to foster collaboration and innovation at the intersection of these disciplines; to incorporate a holistic approach to understanding our legal systems; to embrace the symbiotic relationship between law, management, and strategy; and to enhance the effectiveness of analysis and decision-making in the study, research, practice, and teaching of law.

The Interdisciplinary Section of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business strives to involve its members in the collaboration and integration of expertise from multiple fields beyond independently substantive areas of practice and academia. We strive to integrate knowledge and methods from various fields beyond traditional legal disciplines to address complex legal issues and problem-solving, be it in study, research, practice, or the classroom. In this section, our aims are to facilitate an inclusive, collaborative, and holistic approach by incorporating insights from various disciplines and cultivating a deeper understanding of the social, cultural, economic, and political attributes of our legal systems and their relationship with management and strategy to achieve business objectives that nurture resilience, agility, ethical and effective governance, sustainable growth and allocation of resources, and mitigation of risks. We encourage creativity and innovation in legal studies, research, practice, presentation, and pedagogy; enhancement of the effectiveness of analysis and decision-making in business and our professions; and thinking outside traditional legal frameworks toward ground-breaking areas of research.

International

2024-25 Officers:

• President:  Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, University of Connecticut
• Vice President:  Joan Martinez Evora, University of Miami
• Secretary:  Katayoon Beshkardana, Morgan State University

Law for Accountants

2023-24 Officers:

• Chair:  Sean Shannon, SUNY Oneonta
• Secretary-Treasurer: Linda Christiansen, Indiana University-Southeast
• Advisory Chair: Elizabeth Cameron, Alma College

Sports and Entertainment Law

2023-24 Officers:

• Chair: Leslie Garbarino, Babson College
• Vice Chair: John Holden, Oklahoma State University
• Past Chair: Sam Ehrlich, Boise State University

Teaching and Pedagogy

2024-25 Officers:
Chair:  Michael Fricke, University of Arizona
Vice-Chair:  Jason Epstein, University of Georgia
Program Chair:  Stephanie Moore, Indiana University
Research Co-Director: Ilisabeth Bornstein, Bryant University & Tim Duff, Bentley University

Technology

Co-Chairs for 2024-25:
Lindsay Sain Jones, University of Georgia
Abbey Stemler, Indiana University