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Josephine Sandler Nelson, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Details: Category: Editorial Team; Last Updated: Jun 08, 2021

Josephine Nelson is an expert legal consultant, start-up advisor, and adjunct professor of Business Law. She has advised hundreds of students on their own start-ups and business goals. She writes on business issues, the federal courts, and on white collar crime. She has received numerous awards from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, including most recently the Academy’s 2015 Outstanding Proceedings prize and the 2015 Gaylord Jentz Memorial Scholarship. She is currently co-authoring with Lynn Stout, Distinguished Professor of Corporate & Business Law at Cornell Law School, the Oxford University Press book Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Karl Okamoto, Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University

Details: Category: Editorial Team; Last Updated: Nov 02, 2016

Karl Okamoto serves as Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Business & Entrepreneurship Law at the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University. He is also the founder and CEO of ApprenNet LLC, an education company. Professor Okamoto is a nationally recognized leader in the pedagogy of transactional lawyering. He serves as the Co-Chair of Business Law Education Committee of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section.

Tony Luppino, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

Details: Category: Editorial Team; Last Updated: Jun 08, 2021

Anthony (Tony) Luppino, who serves as Lead Editor of this Entrepreneurship Law site, is a Professor of Law and Director of the Graduate Tax Law Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law, and a Teaching Fellow with the Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at UMKC. His courses include business organizations, business planning and tax courses, and interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation course involving faculty and students from the business, engineering and law schools at UMKC. He also serves as a supervisor of the UMKC Entrepreneurial Legal Services Clinic. Prior to joining the full-time Law School faculty at UMKC (having previously served for several years as an Adjunct Professor), he was in the private practice of law for a combined approximately nineteen years with the firms of Herrick and Smith in Boston, and Brown, Koralchik & Fingersh and Lewis, Rice and Fingersh in Kansas City. His practice included a wide variety of planning and transactional work for businesses of varying sizes and for owners of businesses.

Lisa Lesage, Lewis and Clark Law School

Details: Category: Editorial Team; Last Updated: Jun 14, 2016

Lisa LeSage is a Senior Legal Educator Advisor in the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA-ROLI), working on programs involving legal education, international rule of law and human rights. Prior to joining ABA-ROLI in December of 2011 she served as Associate Dean and Director of Business Law programs at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, where, among many other activities she founded the law school’s Small Business Legal Clinic and taught a trial practice course. In addition to her teaching and program administration duties at Lewis & Clark, she also oversaw the law school’s four business law practical skills programs, including the Community Development Law Center Practicum and Clinical Internship Seminars: Corporate Counsel/IP and Center for Technology, Entrepreneurship and Law. In addition, she was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in law in Santiago, Chile for the 2010 academic year.

Praveen Kosuri, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Details: Category: Editorial Team; Last Updated: Jun 14, 2016

Praveen Kosuri is a founding member of the eLaw Editorial Team. He is a Practice Professor of Law and Director of the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He currently serves on the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Board of Directors. Prior to joining the Penn Law faculty, Professor Kosuri taught at the University of Chicago Law School where he was the Assistant Director of the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship and Lecturer in Law and before that was an adjunct professor at Northwestern Law School. In addition to teaching and operating a clinic, he has taught courses in Entrepreneurship and the Law, Negotiation, Legal Ethics for Business Lawyers and Trial Advocacy.

Laura L. Hollis, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

Details: Category: Editorial Team; Last Updated: Jun 14, 2016

Laura L. Hollis is a native of Champaign, Illinois. She received her undergraduate degree in English and her law degree from the University of Notre Dame. She is presently on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame, where she teaches courses in business law and entrepreneurship.

Professor Hollis’ career as an attorney has spanned 27 years, the past 22 of which have been in higher education. She has taught law at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and has over a decade of experience in the development and delivery of entrepreneurship courses, seminars and workshops for multiple audiences. Her specific expertise is in entrepreneurship and public policy, technology commercialization, economic development, and general business law. Prior to her faculty appointments at Notre Dame, Professor Hollis served as Director of the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship there. She spent ten years at the University of Illinois as Program Director of the Technology Entrepreneur Center in the College of Engineering, and Associate Director of the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership in the College of Business.

Eric Gouvin, Western New England College School of Law

Details: Category: Editorial Team; Last Updated: Jun 14, 2016

Eric Gouvin has been a professor at Western New England University School of Law since 1991 and became Dean of the School of Law in 2013. He is the founder of both the Law School’s Small Business Clinic and the University’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. In practice he handled business law matters for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to closely-held concerns. He has published numerous law review articles and is a co-author of the treatise Blumberg on Corporate Groups.

Cassady V. (“Cass”) Brewer, Georgia State University College of Law

Details: Category: Editorial Team; Last Updated: Jun 14, 2016

Cassady V. (“Cass”) Brewer is Assistant Professor of Law at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He teaches Basic Federal Income Taxation, Nonprofit Organizations, Taxation of Business Organizations, Partnership Taxation, and the Law of Social Enterprise. His scholarship primarily focuses upon the legal and tax aspects of the intersection of tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations with for-profit enterprises and commercial activity. In particular, Professor Brewer writes and speaks extensively on the legal and tax aspects of the emerging “hybrid” business forms such as the benefit corporation and the low-profit limited liability company. He also co-founded the Nonprofit Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and he is a past Co-Chair of the Section. Professor Brewer also participated in drafting and amending the Georgia Limited Liability Company and Limited Liability Partnership Acts and continues to serve as a member of the Partnerships and LLCs Subcommittee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia.

Esther Barron, Northwestern University School of Law

Details: Category: Editorial Team; Last Updated: Jun 14, 2016

Esther Barron is the Director of the Entrepreneurship Law Center at Northwestern University School of Law and a Clinical Associate Professor of Law. In addition to her clinical work with the ELC, her other courses include Entrepreneurship Law, Venture Capital and Business Associations. She also oversees the Law School’s Structuring Transactions program, which is a series of practical courses focused on specific areas of transactional law.

Prior to joining Northwestern Law School’s faculty, she practiced at Goldberg Kohn in Chicago in its commercial finance department. She represented lenders and other financial institutions in middle market debt transactions. In 2005, she also co-founded a start-up handbag company, Elezar, LLC.

Constance E. Bagley, Yale University School of Management

Details: Category: Editorial Team; Last Updated: Jun 14, 2016

Constance E. Bagley is a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Law School and was formerly a Professor in the Practice of Law and Management at the Yale School of Management. Her work focuses on law and strategy and how managers, entrepreneurs, and lawyers can use the law and legal tools to create realizable value and to manage the firm more effectively. She is a skilled public speaker and facilitator, and her clients include MassMutual Financial, PepsiCo, Microsoft, Prudential, CVS Health, and Colson Associates.

Professor Bagley received the Excellence in Teaching Award at the Yale School of Management in 2009 and again in 2013. Previously, she was an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Senior Lecturer in Law and Management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 2000, she was a corporate securities partner in the San Francisco office of Bingham McCutchen where she represented a variety of public companies, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and start-ups. She was also a member of the faculty of the Young Presidents’ Organization International University for Presidents in Hong Kong and Prague.

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