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
2023-24 Officers:
Chair: Aquesha Daniels, Western Kentucky University
Vice Chair: Anthony McMullen, University of Central Arkansas
Secretary: Destynie Sewell, University of Nebraska, Omaha
The mission of this Section is to promote, sponsor, and engage in conversations in the Academy of Legal Studies in Business 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 conversations 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 that 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
2023-24 Officers:
President: Jennifer Cordon Thor, Oakland University
Vice President: Keri Kozlowski, University of Central Florida
Secretary: Hannah Weiser, Bentley University
Ethics
2023-24 Officers:
- Chair: April Sellers, Indiana University
- Vice Chair: J.S. Nelson, University of Pittsburgh
- Award Chair: Suneal Bedi, Indiana University
- Communications Chair: Goldburn P. Maynard, Jr., Indiana University
Environmental Law and Sustainability
2023-24 Officers:
- Chair: Jeff Todd, Texas State University
- Vice Chair: Bonnie Persons, California State University-Chico
- Secretary: Janet Hale, Texas State University
Interdisciplinary Section
2023-24 Officers:
- President Emeritus: Robert Emerson, University of Florida
- President: Thomas Madden, Marist College
- Vice President & Treasurer: Angelica Guevara, Indiana University
- Secretary: Linda Ficht, Christopher Newport University
- Communications Chief: Anthony Na’ayem, Missouri State University
International
2023-24 Officers:
- President: Rachel Chambers, University of Connecticut
- Vice President: Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, University of Connecticut
- Secretary: Joan Martinez Evora, University of Miami
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
2022-23 Officers:
Chair: Eric Sader, Indiana University
Vice-Chair: Michael Fricke, University of Arizona
Program Chair: Jason Epstein, University of Georgia
Research Director: Chelsea Green, Miami University
2023 Master Teacher Competition Committee:
Tara Fitzgerald, Oklahoma State University
Deborah Golemon, University of Louisiana Monroe
Anthony McMullen, University of Central Arkansas
Amy Parrish, Creighton University
Matt Roessing, University of Georgia
Technology
Co-Chairs for 2022-23:
Jennifer Merton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Eva Sedgwick, Seattle University