Authors
Inara Scott, Editor
Inara Scott is the Gomo Family Professor at the College of Business at Oregon State University. Inara’s primary teaching and research areas at Oregon State University include sustainable business, business law, and environmental law and regulation. Her research has appeared in numerous premier outlets, including the American Business Law Journal, Harvard Environmental Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.
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Gerlinde Berger-Walliser
Professor Berger-Walliser teaches in the School of Business at the University of Connecticut. She is inaugural Co-Director of EUROBIZ, a dual-degree program in Business and German Studies. Prior to joining UConn, Dr. Berger-Walliser held academic positions in France and Germany and was a member of the German Bar.
David Bernell
David Bernell is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. He is the author of the books The Energy Security Dilemma: US Policy and Practice, and Constructing US Foreign Policy: The Curious Case of Cuba. Prior to coming to OSU, he served as a political appointee in the Clinton Administration with the US Office of Management and Budget, and with the US Department of the Interior.
Christy Anderson Brekken
Christy Anderson Brekken is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Applied Economics at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. She has published research on governance, sustainability, and scale in the context of human-environment systems such as agriculture and land tenure. She received her law degree from the University of Minnesota in 2005, and a Master’s degree in Agricultural and Resource Economics at Oregon State University in 2011.
Elizabeth Brown
Elizabeth Brown is a Professor of Law and the Wilder Professor of teaching excellence at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Before joining the Bentley faculty, she represented Fortune 100 companies as a litigator for over a decade in London, San Francisco and Boston. She is also the author of Life After Law: How to Find Work You Love with the J.D. You Have and the co-author, with Amy Impellizzeri, of How to Leave the Law.
Dan Cahoy
Dan Cahoy is a Professor of Business Law and the former Research Director for the Center for the Business of Sustainability at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. Professor Cahoy was a member of the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed American Business Law Journal from 2005-2010 and served as the Editor-in-Chief from 2009-2010. He was the Visiting Fulbright Chair in International Humanitarian Law at the University of Ottawa in 2009.
Victor Flatt
Victor B. Flatt is the Coleman P. Burke Chair in Environmental Law and the Associate Director of the Burke Center for Environmental Law at Case Western University School of Law. He also holds an appointment as a Energy Fellow UH Energy at the University of Houston. He was previously the inaugural O’Quinn Chair in Environmental Law at UHLC from 2002-2009, and the Dwight Olds Chair in Law at UHLC from 2017-2023. Professor Flatt was also the inaugural Taft Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law and the Director of the Center for Climate, Energy, Environment, and Economics (CE3) at UNC Chapel Hill School of Law.
David Hess
David Hess is a Professor of Business Law and Business Ethics at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Professor Hess is the Law, Public Policy, and Business Ethics Section Editor for the Journal of Business Ethics, and serves on the editorial boards of the American Business Law Journal, Business Ethics Quarterly, and the Business and Human Rights Journal. Professor Hess is currently serving as a co-President of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association.
Ellen Alexandra Holtmaat
Ellen Alexandra Holtmaat is a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University. Her research on the diffusion of private governance and the impact of environmental disasters has appeared in World Development (2019) and PLoS ONE (2022). Previously she was a teaching fellow at the London School of Economics.
Ruth Jebe
Ruth Jebe is Associate Professor of Legal Studies in Business and the Hansberger Endowed Chair in Business Ethics in the College of Business & Economics at Boise State University. She is currently a member of the editorial board for the peer-reviewed American Business Law Journal.
Mark J. Kaswan
Mark J. Kaswan received his PhD in political theory from UCLA and is a professor of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He works at the intersection of political theory and social change, working to expand our understanding of politics and democracy and to find ways to make democracy meaningful for people in their daily lives.
Ryan Katz-Rosene
Ryan Katz-Rosene is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa, where he specializes in climate policy debates and environmental political economy. He is the former President of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, and currently serves as an editor for the journal Studies in Political Economy. He is the co-author (with Dr. Matthew Paterson) of Thinking Ecologically about the Global Political Economy, and a co-editor (with Dr. Sarah Martin) of Green Meat?
Elizabeth Kennedy
Elizabeth Kennedy is a Professor of Law & Social Responsibility in the Sellinger School of Business at Loyola University Maryland. Prior to joining Loyola, she practiced law with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP; served as labor and employment counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee; and organized workers for AFSCME Local 3299 and UNITE!
Dana Neacsu
Dana Neacsu is an Associate Professor of Legal Research Skills and Director of the Center of Legal Information at Duquesne Kline School of Law, where she teaches an experiential seminar in doctrinal Climate Change Law and Policy combined with Legal Research and Writing. She is also a Political Science Lecturer at Columbia University, and adjunct faculty at Barnard College where she teaches a course on Environmental Law, Policy, Research and Decision-making.
Rajat Panwar
Rajat Panwar is an Associate Professor of Responsible and Sustainable Business at Oregon State University. He has edited two books and has published his work in such journals as Business and Society, Business Strategy and the Environment, California Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization and Environment, among others. He is a Deputy Editor for Business and Society.
Robert Prentice
Robert A. Prentice is the Ed & Molly Smith Professor of Business Law at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He came to UT in 1980. He is the Faculty Director of Ethics Unwrapped, an ethics education video program housed in the Center for Leadership and Ethics. He has co-authored multiple textbooks and academic books and published more than 60 law review articles in such journals as the Duke Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and the American Business Law Journal.
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Natalia Vidal
Natalia Vidal is an Associate Professor at the Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on the diffusion of corporate sustainability practices through business collective action for sustainability, socially and environmentally sustainable supply chain practices, and stakeholder engagement.