2008 National Proceedings

Selected Refereed Papers Delivered at the 2008 ALSB Annual Conference

Long Beach, California

 

Editor’s Forward

 

The 83rd annual meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business will be held August 2008, in Long Beach, California.  Since the review process is complete and to make up for last year we are presenting the proceedings a few days before what looks to be a very interesting conference.  Hundreds of papers are scheduled for presentation and many interesting and worthwhile workshops are scheduled.

 

From the papers submitted for presentation, at the 83^nd annual meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business those that were submitted for the double-blind review process and accepted for publication are presented below. It is with great pleasure that I present this peer reviewed sample of work that is representative of the high quality of the work done by our colleagues.

 

From the looks of the schedule, the 2008 Conference is set to be a big success.  Much credit should be given to Kathleen Lacey for her hard work in organizing the conference and so many interesting sessions and workshops. 

 

The 2009 annual meeting will be in Denver, Colorado. I encourage everyone to participate in the ALSB meeting and in the Proceedings for 2010.

 

We are in need of reviewers and those who would be willing to serve as discussants at the Distinguished Proceedings Sections. Please contact me if you have any interest in becoming involved with the proceedings.  I assure that based upon the quality of the work that I have seen you will find it an exciting learning experience as well as a bit of a humbling experience when you become aware of the quality of the work out colleagues are doing.

 

Stuart T. MacDonald

University of Central Oklahoma

August 2008

smacdonald@ucok.edu

 

 

2008 Proceedings Reviewers

 

I would like to thank the reviewers for the 2008 ALSB Proceedings.  Your time, consideration, and thoughtfulness make the Proceedings better every year.  Your service to the proceedings and the authors is appreciated more than you will ever know.  I sincerely thank you, and once again I would like to single out Dr. Kris Tilker of Midwestern State University always being willing to provide a useful review on very short notice. 

Paul Graf, San Diego State University

 

Vincent Carrafiello, University of Connecticut

 

Robert Sprague, University of Wyoming

 

Richard Coffinberger, George Mason University

 

Dave Canarie, St. Joseph's College of Maine

 

Adam Sulkowski, Charlton College of Business, UMass Dartmouth

 

Dana Muir, University of Michigan Ross School of Business

 

Marcia J Staff, University of North Texas

 

Won Huyng Park, Pusan National University

 

Mike Hogg, Tulane University

 

Jihong Joo, Pusan National University

 

Eve Brown, Indiana University Bloomington, Kelley School of Business

 

Barry Morinaka, Independent Scholar

 

Elizabeth Stapp, University of Denver

 

Marianne Jennings, Arizona State University

 

Michael J. O'Hara, University of Nebraska at Omaha

 

Frederick Jones, Kennesaw State University

 

Avner Levin, Ryerson University, Ted Rogers School of Management

 

Jennifer O'Reilly, Monash University

 

Elliot Axelrod, Baruch College/City University of New York

 

Roxane DeLaurell, College of Charleston

 

Ira Sprotzer, Rider University

 

Patricia Abril, University of Miami School of Business Administration

 

Mary Ann Donnelly, Le Moyne College

 

Pearson Liddell, Jr., Mississippi State University

 

Anita Cava, University of Miami School of Business

 

Ryan Hunt, Western Illinois University

 

Arthur Hamilton, James Madison University

 

Chris Birkel, University of Florida

 

John Norwood, University of Arkansas

 

David Hess, University of Michigan Ross School of Business

 

Pamela Gershuny, Southeast Missouri State University

 

Kurt Schulzke, Kennesaw State University

 

Vicki Luoma, Minnesota State University

 

Milton Luoma, Metropolitan State University

 

William Volz, Wayne State University

 

Art Magaldi, Pace University

 

Neil Browne, Bowling Green State University

 

Jessie Roberson, Ohio University

 

Will Mawer, Southeastern Oklahoma State University

 

Corey Ciocchetti, University of Denver

 

Mark Blodgett, Suffolk University

 

Joanie Sompayrac, University of Tennessee - Chattanooga

 

Debra Burke, Western Carolina University

 

Abe Herzberg, Faculty of Business & Economics, Monash University

 

Laura Ginger, Indiana University Kelley School of Business

 

Susan Harrell, University of West Florida

 

John Lynch, Bentley College

 

Lara Kessler, Grand Valley State University

 

Gerald Ferrera, Bentley College

 

Gaylord Jentz, University of Texas

 

Tonia Murphy, University of Notre Dame

 

Frona Powell, Indiana University

 

Yvonne Demory, George Mason University

 

Steve Salbu, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Linda Samuels, George Mason University

 

Susan Boyd, The University of Tulsa

 

Anthony Liuzzo, Wilkes University

 

Bruce Zucker, California State University, Northridge

 

Susan Martin, Hofstra University

 

Henry Cheeseman, University of Southern California

 

Jody Blanke, Mercer University – Atlanta

 

Franklyn Salimbene, Bentley College

 

Randall Hanson, University of North Carolina Wilmington

 

Lucien Dhooge, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Carol Miller, Missouri State University

 

Stephen Lichtenstein, Bentley College

 

Sandra Owen, Indiana University – Bloomington

 

Robert Rowlands, Harrisburg Area Community College

 

Sandra Miller, Widener University

 

Daniel Ostas, University of Oklahoma

 

Eric Yordy, Northern Arizona University

 

Emerson Tiller, Northwestern University

 

Regina Robson, St. Joseph's University

 

Mary Dundas, Arizona State University

 

David Culp, La Salle University

 

Linda Sharp, University of Northern Colorado

 

Karen Gantt, University of Hartford

 

Timothy Lemper, Indiana University

 

Art Wolfe, Michigan State

 

Cheryl Kirschner, Babson College

 

Hiro Aragaki, Fordham University Graduate School of Business

 

Nim Razook, University of Oklahoma

 

Peter Shedd, University of Georgia

 

John Hayward, Bentley College

 

Leigh Anenson, Robert H. Smith School of Business - University of Maryland

 

Rita Cain, UMKC Bloch School

 

Paul Fiorelli, Xavier University

 

Mark Baker, University of Texas at Austin

 

C. Kerry Fields, University of Southern California

 

Nancy Carr, Community College of Philadelphia

 

Shelley McGill Wilfrid, Laurier University

 

Norman Bishara, University of Michigan Ross School of Business

 

John Dorocak, California State University, San Bernardino

 

David Orozco, Michigan Technological University

 

Sandra Groome, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

 

Linda Barkacs, University of San Diego

 

Craig Barkacs, University of San Diego

 

Robert Prentice, University of Texas

 

Caryn L. Beck-Dudley, Florida State University

 

Ida Jones, California State University, Fresno

 

Stephen Bretsen, Wheaton College

 

Lynda Oswald, University of Michigan Ross School of Business

 

Ann Marie Tracey, Xavier University

 

Lisa Knych, Syracuse University Whitman School of Management

 

Deborah Kemp, California State University, Fresno

 

Robert Bird, University of Connecticut

 

Patricia Pattison, Texas State University-San Marcos

 

Rafi Efrat, California State University, Northridge

 

Marsha Cooper, California State University, Long Beach

 

Charles Smith, California State University, Fullerton

 

John Hayward, Bentley College

 

Gloria Liddell, Mississippi State University

 

Elet Callahan, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University

 

Gerald Madek, Bentley College

 

Sally Gunz, University of Waterloo

 

Don Mayer, University of Denver

 

J. Keaton Grubbs, Stephen F. Austin State University

 

Patrick Cihon, Syracuse University

 

Jamie Prenkert, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business

 

Arthur Schaefer, Loyola Marymount University

 

Bill Shaw, The University of Texas at Austin

 

Adis Vila, Dickinson College

 

Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, Meyer Loyola College in Maryland

 

Terry Dworkin, Indiana University

 

Patricia Nunley Erwin, Baylor University

 

John Holcomb, University of Denver

 

Terry Knoepfle, North Dakota State University

 

Mark Bandsuch, Loyola Marymount University

 

Janine Hiller, Virginia Tech

 

William Greenhaw, University of Arkansas

 

Kristopher R. Tilker, Midwestern State University

 

Paul Von Nessen, Monash University

 

Jennifer Barger, University of Central Oklahoma

 

 

Index of Papers

 

Distinguished Proceeding

Exploiting Under-Enforced Laws: An Economic and Ethical Assessment of Corporate Legal Strategy by Dan Ostas

Runners Up

Patents Gone Wild: An Empirical Examination and Policy Analysis of Tax-Related and Tax Strategy Patents by Wade M. Chumney, David L. Baumer, and Roby Sawyers

 

ADEA Disparate Impact Discrimination: A Pyrrhic Victory? by Debra D. Burke

National Issues

Individual Pension Savings - A Labor or an Investment Issue?  by Dana Muir

 

National Issues, Local Costs: The Trend Toward State and Local Control of Immigration by Denise S. Smith and Robert Schlanser

 

Private Military Contractors & Foreign Torts: International Law and the U.S. ‘Political Question’ Question by Don Mayer

Civil Rights and Liberties

Justice For All:  An International Perspective of Legal Protections for the Transgendered by bonnie L. Roach

 

21st Century Commercial Speech: A Mix of Buzz Marketing, Immunity, and Deceptive Trade Practices by Robert Sprague and Mary Ellen Wells

 

Title VII Analysis of Grooming Policies by Mark R. Bandsuch

Antitrust and Privacy Issues

The Need for International Antitrust Laws is Reflected in Global Dilemmas Facing American Managers by Marshall D. Nickles and Jeffrey Schieberl

 

Preserving Identities: Protecting Personal Identifying Information through Enhanced Privacy Policies and Laws by Robert Sprague and Corey Ciocchetti

 

The Birds’ Eye View: An Analysis of The United States Department of Justice’s Positions on the 2002 Proposed Satellite Television Merger and the 2007 Proposed Satellite Radio Merger by James Breyley and Steven C. Palmer

Pedagogy and Business Law

A Role for Service-Learning in Tax Education: Teaching Compliance and Controversy Resolution by Franklyn P. Salimbene, John E. Lynch, and Mark N. Nixon

 

Virtual Environment / Legal Environment: Whither the two meet? by Ida M. Jones

 

My Car Is A Lemon! Use of the Better Business Bureau’s Auto Line Program as a Pedagogical Model of ADR by Donna M. Steslow

 

An Entrepreneurial Strand in the Business Law Course: Making it Relevant by “Making it Real” by Regina M. Robson

 

Mock Trials and the Debate Between Litigation Driven Versus Management Driven Models of Business Law Instruction by Pamela Gershuny, Carolyn Rainey, and Charles D. McAllister

 

Education is What Survives When What Has Been Learned Has Been Forgotten by Abe Herzberg and Phillip Lipton

Potpourri of Legal Issues

Are Minutemen Guarding Your Corporation? by Paul J. Graf

 

Women and Leadership: The Role of Mentoring and Networking by Cindy A. Schipani, Terry M. Dworkin, Angel Kwolek-Folland, and Virginia G. Maurer

 

A Time To Learn: A Comparison of Policies Dealing With Clergy Sexual Misconduct by Arthur Gross-Schaefer, Lee Feldman, and Nicole Perkowitz

 

Adverse Possession: Practical Realities and an Unjust Enrichment Standard by Susan Lorde Martin

 

[Cite as:  39 Acad. Legal Stud. In Bus. Nat’l Proc. ____ (2008)]