BUSINESS LAW RESEARCH
BUSINESS LAW RESEARCH
FACULTY PROFILE
Patrick Gaughan
Patrick Gaughan is an expert on international business and commercial law. He has both a J.D. and doctorate in international business, and recently returned from a U.S. Fulbright Scholarship to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He remains active in commercial legal education in both the U.S and throughout S.E. Asia.
RECENT NEWS
Willa Gibson accepted an offer to publish her article The Intersection Between UCC Article 9 and Intellectual Property: The Need for a National, Centralized Filing System for IP in the October 2015 issue of The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law.
Rich Lavoie published Negative Interest and Negative Rebates: The World Turned Upside Down (co-authored with James L. Saeli and Mark Howe), 32 J. of Taxation Investments 3 (2015).
Kristen Barnes published Recognition and Reflection, 2 Texas A&M J. Real Property Law 187 (2015).
Kristen Barnes presented “Cohousing and the Sharing Economy” at the Association of Law, Property & Society Conference at the University of Georgia.
Alan Newman presented his work-in-progress, Trust Law in the Twenty-First Century: Fiduciary Accountability in Decline, at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law.
Alan Newman presented “The Ohio Trust Code: Recent Case Law Developments” to the Akron Bar Association Probate Law Section.
FACULTY
Carolyn Dessin
Willa Gibson
Richard Lavoie
Stefan Padfield
Gary Spring
Related area faculty:
Jack Sahl (Sports Law, Entertainment Law)
ABOUT BUSINESS LAW SCHOLARSHIP
Research and legal scholarship in the general areas of business and wealth management spans broad territory with wide-reaching implications. Our faculty writing in this area cover a range of topics spanning corporate theory, tax law and ethics, sports and entertainment law, trust and estate law, and real estate law, among other subjects.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Richard Lavoie: (with James L. Saeli and Mark Howe), Negative Interest and The World Turned Upside Down, 32 J. of Taxation Investments 3 (2015).
Kristen Barnes: Recognition and Reflection, 2 Texas A&M J. Real Property Law 187 (2015).
Stefan J. Padfield: Corporate Social Responsibility & Concession Theory, 6 Wm. & Mary Bus. L. Rev. 1 (2015).
Kristen Barnes: ""Pennies on the Dollar"": Reallocating Risk and Deficiency Judgment Liability, 66 S.C. L. Rev. 243 (2014).
Alan Newman: You Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Gone: Time-Barred Claims Under the Uniform Trust Code, 48 Real Property, Trust, and Estate L.J. 459 (2014).
Stefan J. Padfield: Rehabilitating Concession Theory, 66 Okla. L. Rev. 327 (2014).
Stefan J. Padfield: Citizens United, Concession Theory and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), 62 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 84 (2014).
John P. Sahl: Sports Law Cases & Materials (Vandeplas, 3rd ed. forthcoming 2014) (with Russ VerSteeg).