Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment, 13/e
Jane P. Mallor,
Indiana University - Bloomington A. James Barnes,
Indiana University - Bloomington L. Thomas Bowers,
Indiana University - Bloomington Arlen W. Langvardt,
Indiana University - Bloomington
ISBN: 0072933992 Copyright year: 2007
About the Authors
Jane P. Mallor has been a member of the Business
Law faculty at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University,
since 1976. She has a B.A. from Indiana University and a J.D.
from Indiana University School of Law. She has been
admitted to the Indiana Bar, the Bar of the Southern District
of Indiana, and the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a
member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
Professor Mallor has taught a range of courses, including an
introductory legal environment course and a graduate-level
legal concepts course, real estate law, university pedagogy
courses for business doctoral students, and most recently,
graduate and undergraduate courses on Internet law and e-commerce.
She is a member of Indiana University's Faculty
Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching and was a Lilly
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow. She has won a number of
teaching awards, including the Amoco Foundation Award for
Distinguished Teaching, the Dow Technology Teaching Award,
and the Innovative Teaching Award. Her research has focused
primarily on punitive damages, product liability, and
employment rights. Her work has been published in law reviews
such as Hastings Law Journal, North Carolina Law Review,
American Business Law Journal, and Notre Dame Lawyer.
A. James Barnes, J.D. Professor of Public and
Environmental Affairs and Adjunct Professor of Law at
Indiana University, Bloomington. He previously served as
Dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and
has taught business law at Indiana University and Georgetown
University. His teaching interests include commercial law,
environmental law, alternative dispute resolution, law and
public policy, and ethics and the public official. He is the coauthor
of several leading books on business law.
From 1985 to 1988 Professor Barnes served as the deputy
administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
From 1983 to 1985 he was the EPA general counsel and in the
early 1970s served as chief of staff to the first administrator of
EPA. Professor Barnes also served as a trial attorney in the
U.S. Department of Justice and as general counsel of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture. For six years, from 1975 to 1981,
he had a commercial and environmental law practice with the
firm of Beveridge and Diamond in Washington, D.C.
Professor Barnes is the Vice President of the Board of
America's Clean Water Foundation, a member of the Board of
Trustees of the National Institute for Global Environmental
Change, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public
Administration. From 1992 to 1998 he was a member of the
Board of Directors of the Long Island Lighting Company
(LILCO).
Thomas Bowers Thomas Bowers is the Argosy
Gaming Faculty Fellow in the Kelley School of Business at
Indiana University, Bloomington. Focusing primarily on the
law of business organizations, securities regulation,
professional responsibilities, and ethical and rational decision
making, Dr. Bowers has taught three courses in the Kelley
School's top-ranked Systems and Accounting Graduate
Program. In 2005, he received the Kelley School's Innovative
Teaching Award for his work with the SAGP. In addition, his
students and colleagues have honored him with 19
outstanding teaching awards. He joined the faculty at Indiana
University in 1977 after obtaining a B.S. in finance summa
cum laude from The Ohio State University and a J.D. from
New York University. He is also Director of the Kelley MBA
Sports & Entertainment Academy.
Arlen W. Langvardt, Professor of Business Law,
joined the faculty of Indiana University's Kelley School of
Business in 1985. Professor Langvardt earned a Bachelor of
Arts degree (summa cum laude) from Hastings College in
1976 and a Juris Doctor degree (with distinction) from the
University of Nebraska in 1981.
From 1981 to 1985, Professor Langvardt was a trial
attorney with firms in Nebraska. He tried cases in a variety of
legal areas, including tort, contract, constitutional, and
miscellaneous commercial cases, as well as criminal and
domestic relations cases.
Professor Langvardt has received several teaching awards
and honors at the undergraduate and MBA levels. His graduatelevel
teaching assignments have included Legal Concepts and
Trends Affecting Business, Managing Legal and Ethical Risk,
Legal Issues in Marketing Management, and Legal Issues in the
Arts. At the undergraduate level, he has taught Legal
Environment of Business, Legal Aspects of Marketing,
Commercial Law, Personal Law, and Law and the Arts.
Professor Langvardt also serves as chair of the Kelley
School's Department of Business Law.
Most of Professor Langvardt's research focuses on the
First Amendment's application in contexts such as advertising
regulation, trademark protection, and corporate defamation.
He has published numerous articles in law journals and
business journals, including the Minnesota Law Review, the
American Business Law Journal, the Journal of Marketing,
the Trademark Reporter, the Villanova Law Review, and the
Kansas Law Review. Professor Langvardt has won several
research awards from professional associations, including the
Holmes/Cardozo Award from the American Business Law
Association (now the Academy of Legal Studies in Business).
The Brand Names Education Foundation selected him as
winner of the 1992 Ladas Memorial Award for writing the
best trademark law article published in 1991. By invitation of
the Brand Names Education Foundation, Professor Langvardt
delivered the 1992 Boal Memorial Lecture (part of a lecture
series on trademark and unfair competition law) at the
Georgetown University Law Center.
Professor Langvardt and his wife, Mary, are the parents of
Kyle and Tara.
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