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Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and Digital Environment has been a leader and an innovator in the fields of business law and the legal environment of business. This textbook defines the legal environment approach to business law and over

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PART 1: FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN LAW 
Chapter 1: The Nature of Law
Chapter 2: The Resolution of Private Disputes  
Chapter 3: Business and the Constitution
Chapter 4: Business Ethics, Corpora

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Jamie Darin Prenkert

Jamie Darin Prenkert, Professor of Business Law and Arthur M. Weimer Faculty Fellow, joined the faculty of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in 2002. He has served as chair of the Department of Business Law & Ethics since 2014. Professor Prenkert is a former Editor in Chief of the American Business Law Journal and member of the executive committee of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. His research focuses on issues of employment discrimination and the human rights obligations of transnational corporations. He has published articles in the American Business Law Journal, the North Carolina Law Review, the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, among others. He also recently coedited a volume entitled Law, Business and Human Rights: Bridging the Gap. Professor Prenkert has taught undergraduate and graduate courses, both in-residence and online, focusing on the legal environment of business, employment law, law for entrepreneurs, and business and human rights. He is a recipient of the Harry C. Sauvain Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Kelley Innovative Teaching Award.
Professor Prenkert earned a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Anderson University and a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the faculty of the Kelley School, he was a senior trial attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Joshua E. Perry

Joshua E. Perry, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics and Glaubinger Chair for Undergraduate Leadership, joined the faculty of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in 2009. He teaches a variety of courses on business ethics, critical thinking, and the legal environment of business to both undergraduates and MBA students in-residence and online. Since 2016 he has also served as Faculty Chair of the Undergraduate Program at Kelley. He earned a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Lipscomb University, a Masters of Theological Studies from the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, and a J.D. from the Vanderbilt University Law School. Prior to joining Kelley, he was on faculty at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he taught medical ethics in the School of Medicine and professional responsibility in the Law School, while serving as a clinical ethicist in both the adult and children's hospitals at Vanderbilt. He also practiced law as a civil litigator in Nashville, Tennessee.
Professor Perry’s award-winning scholarship explores legal, ethical, and public policy issues in the life science, medical device, and healthcare industries, as well as in the business of medicine. His numerous articles and essays have appeared in a variety of law reviews and peer-reviewed journals across the fields of business, medicine, law, and ethics, including the American Business Law Journal, the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, the Syracuse Law Review, and the Journal of Legal Studies Education. An active member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, he was recognized in 2013 with the Academy’s “Distinguished Junior Faculty Award,” celebrating outstanding early career achievement. In 2015 he was invited to join the editorial board for the Journal of Business Ethics as the Business Law Section Editor. He is also a recipient of numerous teaching awards at Kelley for excellence and innovation in the classroom, and in 2015 he was elected into Indiana University’s Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching.

Todd Haugh

Todd Haugh is an Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.  His scholarship focuses on white collar and corporate crime, business and behavioral ethics, and federal sentencing policy, exploring the decision-making processes of the players most central to the commission and adjudication of economic crime and unethical business conduct.  His work has appeared in top law and business journals, including the Northwestern University Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Georgia Law Review, and the MIT-Sloan Management Review.  Prof. Haugh’s expertise relating to the burgeoning field of behavioral compliance has led to frequent speaking and consulting engagements with major U.S. companies and ethics organizations.  He is also regularly quoted in national news publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg News, and USA Today, as well as various legal, business, and popular blogs. 


 A graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law and Brown University, Prof. Haugh has extensive professional experience as a white collar criminal defense attorney, a federal law clerk, and a member of the general counsel’s office of the United States Sentencing Commission.  In 2011, he was chosen as one of four Supreme Court Fellows of the Supreme Court of the United States to study the administrative machinery of the federal judiciary.


Prior to joining the Kelley School, where he teaches courses on business ethics, white collar crime, and critical thinking, Prof. Haugh taught criminal procedure and advanced legal writing and advocacy at DePaul University College of Law and Chicago-Kent College of Law.  He is a recipient of numerous teaching awards, including a Trustees Teaching Award and multiple Innovative Teaching Awards, and a Jesse Fine Fellowship from the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, to which he now serves as a board member.  In both his scholarship and teaching, Prof. Haugh takes a unique look at how ethics, law, business, and psychology interact in today’s complex world. 

Abbey Stemler

Professor Stemler is a leading scholar on the sharing economy and has published multiple articles on the subject, including in the Emory Law Journal and the Maryland Law Review. She is also a practicing attorney, consultant, entrepreneur (she sold her first business at age 29), avid traveler, and blogger (www.themillennialprof.com), all of which helps her bring real world examples into the classroom. Professor Stemler earned her J.D. from the Maurer School of Law and M.B.A. from the Kelley School of Business. Her research interests focus on the regulatory complexities and possibilities of innovation in the high-tech sector. She currently teaches a variety of courses including entrepreneurship law, business law, and critical thinking. 

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