WALSB Awards for Best Paper and Best Presentation
2022 Winter Conference:
Best Paper Award:
Mind the Gap: It is Time to Eliminate Uncertainty Regarding Disparate Impact Discrimination Claims Under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1974
by Shawn Grant, City University of New York - Borough of Manhattan Community College
Best Presentation Award:
The Fracturing of the American Rule: Recent Developments in Attorney Fee Awards in Business-Related Cases
by Sharon Yamen, St. John's University
2022 Spring Conference:
Best Paper Award:
International Bribery: The World Loves an FCPA Free-Ride
by John Paul, City University of New York - Brooklyn College
Outstanding Paper Award:
Legal Ethics and Representing Marijuana Businesses: A Response to the Doomsayers
by Marty Ludlum, University of Central Oklahoma
Honorable Mention Award:
Non-Competes and Workplace Morale
by Perry Z. Binder, Georgia State University
Best Presentation Award:
Conscious Business Ethics: The Nature of Education
by Wade M. Chumley, California State University - Northridge
2021:
Best Paper Award:
How Do You Tax the Hard Forks that were Cloned in the Clouds?
by John Paul, City University of New York - Brooklyn College
Best Presentation Award:
Teaching Consumer Law and Advocacy Skills with a Judge Judy Team Project
by Perry Z. Binder, Georgia State University
2020:
Conference Cancelled due to COVID Pandemic
2019:
Best Paper Award:
Legal Ramifications of Research Misconduct on Promotion and Tenure: Insight into University Personnel Decisions
by John Nolan, University of Nevada - Reno
Best Presentation Award:
Legal Ramifications of Research Misconduct on Promotion and Tenure: Insight into University Personnel Decisions
by John Nolan, University of Nevada - Reno
2017:
Best Paper Award:
Lydie Pierre-Louis, Financial Inclusion in South Africa
Outstanding Paper Awards:
George Siedel, The Duty to Negotiate in Good Faith: Are BATNA Strategies Legal?
Lucien Dhooge, The Equivalence of Religion and Conscience
Robert Thomas and Susan Marsnik, Patentable Subject Matter: Convergence in the Digital Age?
Honorable Mention:
Wade M. Chumney, Conscious (Business) Ethics in Practice: Service Learning and (Student) Success
Best Presentation:
Lee Burgunder, When It’s Good to be Fashionably Late
Outstanding Presentation:
Alexis Stokes, Managing Ethical Crises
2016:
Best Paper Award:
Josephine Sandler Nelson for Paper Dragon Thieves
Outstanding Paper Awards:
Jeffrey Boles for Encouraging Voluntary Disclosure of Transnational Bribery Violations: Carrots and Sticks
Michael O'Brien and George Papagiannis for I Declare Bankruptcy!
Susan Willey and Leila Lawlor for Are Your Workers Employees or Independent Contractors: Three Exercises to Guide Students through the Analysis to Accurately Classify Workers
Honorable Mentions:
Donald Mayer for The Great Recession: The Legal and Ethical Lessons Still Unlearned
Elizabeth Brown for Should the Federal Government Assume a Larger Role in Regulating U.S. Insurance Conglomerates in Order to Maintain Financial Stability?
Deborah J. Kemp, Ida M. Jones, and Lynn M. Forsythe for Addressing California’s Water Crisis: SGMA
2015:
Best Paper Awards:
Alexis Stokes (Texas State University) and Peter Stokes (Norton Rose Fulbright), for Un-Due Process: Constitutional Questions about SEC Administrative Hearings
Lucien Dhooge (Georgia Institute of Technology), for Public Accommodation Statutes and Sexual Orientation: Should There be a Religious Exemption for Secular Businesses?
Deborah J Kemp and Lynn M Forsythe, (Cal State - Fresno), for Civil Disobedience of Unjust Trademark Law
Lydie Pierre-Louis (University of San Francisco) for Cooperative Banking: As a Means of Sustainable Economic Development in the Barcelona’s Housing Market
Honorable Mentions:
Josephine Sandler Nelson (Stanford University) for Bad Bosses, Buckyballs, Buy-Outs, and Bankrupt Bishops, AKA the Intracorporate Conspiracy Trap
2014:
Best Paper Awards:
Josephine Sandler Nelson for The Intracorporate Conspiracy Trap
Laurie Lichter-Heath for The Legal Status in the United States of Microchip Implants in Humans
Kevin J Fandl for Intellectual Property Right Enforcement in Developing Countries: Stopping Theft or Stopping Economic Growth?
Leila Lawlor for Stop Game’ and ‘BYOD’ (Bring Your Own Device) Pedagogical Techniques
2013:
Best Paper Awards:
Inara Scott, Oregon State University for, Creating a Twenty-First Century Public Utility Commission
Michael O’Brien, St. Mary’s of California, for A Matter of Standing in Walker Process Claims
Robert Landry, Jacksonville State, Louisiana, for Ability to Pay and Abuse under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code: The Appellate Courts Weigh In
Honorable Mentions:
Laurie Lichter-Heath, Beth Whittenbury, and Emerson Tiller
2012:
Best Paper Awards:
Elizabeth F Brown, Georgia State University for Will the Federal Insurance Office Enhance Both Domestic and International Insurance Regulation?
Lee F. Burgunder, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo, for Trademarks need a New Character Test
Deborah J. Kemp and Ida M. Jones, CSU - Fresno, for Of the People, By the People, and For the People: Taking the Law in [One’s] Own Hands to Promote Internet Freedom
Honorable Mentions:
Lucien J. Dhooge and Stanley A. Leasure
2011:
Best Paper Awards:
Lucien J. Dhooge, Georgia Institute of Technology, for Creating an Effective Course in Global Business Ethics
Lynn Forsythe, Cal State - Fresno, for Using the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine to Protect Trade Secrets
J. Royce Fichtner, Drake University, for Audit Committee Independence Requirements: Are International Policy Makers Putting the Academic Research to Use?
Honorable Mentions:
Geoff Woodward
2010:
Best Paper Awards:
Lee Burgunder, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo, for Fur-Free and Obamanable
Debra Burke, Western Carolina University, for Negotiation, Ethics, and Professionalism, co-authored with Bill McClendon and Lorrie Willey
Honorable Mentions:
David Scalise and Rodney Mock
2009:
Best Paper Awards:
Lynn Forsythe, California State University - Fresno, for Is There a Tragedy of the Commons Problem Looming in the Future for Creative Commons?
Susanna Monseau, College of New Jersey, for Followers of Fashion: Why Passing a Design Protection Law for the Fashion Industry is Misconceived
2008:
Best Paper Awards:
Alexis Stokes, Texas State University, for Short Attacks: Corporate Strategies for Preventing, Recognizing, and Remedying Stock Manipulation through Short Selling
Ida Jones, California State University - Fresno, for Online Discussion Boards: Impact on Learning
2007:
Best Paper Awards:
Carol F. Nowicki, CSU - East Bay, for Who is Entitled to Claim Section 230 Immunity in an Online World?
Richard G. Kunkel, University of St. Thomas - Minnesota, for Applying Real Estate and Consumer Law Principles to Spyware Regulation
2006:
Best Paper Awards:
Carol Nowicki and Rick Kunkel
Best Paper Award:
Mind the Gap: It is Time to Eliminate Uncertainty Regarding Disparate Impact Discrimination Claims Under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1974
by Shawn Grant, City University of New York - Borough of Manhattan Community College
Best Presentation Award:
The Fracturing of the American Rule: Recent Developments in Attorney Fee Awards in Business-Related Cases
by Sharon Yamen, St. John's University
2022 Spring Conference:
Best Paper Award:
International Bribery: The World Loves an FCPA Free-Ride
by John Paul, City University of New York - Brooklyn College
Outstanding Paper Award:
Legal Ethics and Representing Marijuana Businesses: A Response to the Doomsayers
by Marty Ludlum, University of Central Oklahoma
Honorable Mention Award:
Non-Competes and Workplace Morale
by Perry Z. Binder, Georgia State University
Best Presentation Award:
Conscious Business Ethics: The Nature of Education
by Wade M. Chumley, California State University - Northridge
2021:
Best Paper Award:
How Do You Tax the Hard Forks that were Cloned in the Clouds?
by John Paul, City University of New York - Brooklyn College
Best Presentation Award:
Teaching Consumer Law and Advocacy Skills with a Judge Judy Team Project
by Perry Z. Binder, Georgia State University
2020:
Conference Cancelled due to COVID Pandemic
2019:
Best Paper Award:
Legal Ramifications of Research Misconduct on Promotion and Tenure: Insight into University Personnel Decisions
by John Nolan, University of Nevada - Reno
Best Presentation Award:
Legal Ramifications of Research Misconduct on Promotion and Tenure: Insight into University Personnel Decisions
by John Nolan, University of Nevada - Reno
2017:
Best Paper Award:
Lydie Pierre-Louis, Financial Inclusion in South Africa
Outstanding Paper Awards:
George Siedel, The Duty to Negotiate in Good Faith: Are BATNA Strategies Legal?
Lucien Dhooge, The Equivalence of Religion and Conscience
Robert Thomas and Susan Marsnik, Patentable Subject Matter: Convergence in the Digital Age?
Honorable Mention:
Wade M. Chumney, Conscious (Business) Ethics in Practice: Service Learning and (Student) Success
Best Presentation:
Lee Burgunder, When It’s Good to be Fashionably Late
Outstanding Presentation:
Alexis Stokes, Managing Ethical Crises
2016:
Best Paper Award:
Josephine Sandler Nelson for Paper Dragon Thieves
Outstanding Paper Awards:
Jeffrey Boles for Encouraging Voluntary Disclosure of Transnational Bribery Violations: Carrots and Sticks
Michael O'Brien and George Papagiannis for I Declare Bankruptcy!
Susan Willey and Leila Lawlor for Are Your Workers Employees or Independent Contractors: Three Exercises to Guide Students through the Analysis to Accurately Classify Workers
Honorable Mentions:
Donald Mayer for The Great Recession: The Legal and Ethical Lessons Still Unlearned
Elizabeth Brown for Should the Federal Government Assume a Larger Role in Regulating U.S. Insurance Conglomerates in Order to Maintain Financial Stability?
Deborah J. Kemp, Ida M. Jones, and Lynn M. Forsythe for Addressing California’s Water Crisis: SGMA
2015:
Best Paper Awards:
Alexis Stokes (Texas State University) and Peter Stokes (Norton Rose Fulbright), for Un-Due Process: Constitutional Questions about SEC Administrative Hearings
Lucien Dhooge (Georgia Institute of Technology), for Public Accommodation Statutes and Sexual Orientation: Should There be a Religious Exemption for Secular Businesses?
Deborah J Kemp and Lynn M Forsythe, (Cal State - Fresno), for Civil Disobedience of Unjust Trademark Law
Lydie Pierre-Louis (University of San Francisco) for Cooperative Banking: As a Means of Sustainable Economic Development in the Barcelona’s Housing Market
Honorable Mentions:
Josephine Sandler Nelson (Stanford University) for Bad Bosses, Buckyballs, Buy-Outs, and Bankrupt Bishops, AKA the Intracorporate Conspiracy Trap
2014:
Best Paper Awards:
Josephine Sandler Nelson for The Intracorporate Conspiracy Trap
Laurie Lichter-Heath for The Legal Status in the United States of Microchip Implants in Humans
Kevin J Fandl for Intellectual Property Right Enforcement in Developing Countries: Stopping Theft or Stopping Economic Growth?
Leila Lawlor for Stop Game’ and ‘BYOD’ (Bring Your Own Device) Pedagogical Techniques
2013:
Best Paper Awards:
Inara Scott, Oregon State University for, Creating a Twenty-First Century Public Utility Commission
Michael O’Brien, St. Mary’s of California, for A Matter of Standing in Walker Process Claims
Robert Landry, Jacksonville State, Louisiana, for Ability to Pay and Abuse under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code: The Appellate Courts Weigh In
Honorable Mentions:
Laurie Lichter-Heath, Beth Whittenbury, and Emerson Tiller
2012:
Best Paper Awards:
Elizabeth F Brown, Georgia State University for Will the Federal Insurance Office Enhance Both Domestic and International Insurance Regulation?
Lee F. Burgunder, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo, for Trademarks need a New Character Test
Deborah J. Kemp and Ida M. Jones, CSU - Fresno, for Of the People, By the People, and For the People: Taking the Law in [One’s] Own Hands to Promote Internet Freedom
Honorable Mentions:
Lucien J. Dhooge and Stanley A. Leasure
2011:
Best Paper Awards:
Lucien J. Dhooge, Georgia Institute of Technology, for Creating an Effective Course in Global Business Ethics
Lynn Forsythe, Cal State - Fresno, for Using the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine to Protect Trade Secrets
J. Royce Fichtner, Drake University, for Audit Committee Independence Requirements: Are International Policy Makers Putting the Academic Research to Use?
Honorable Mentions:
Geoff Woodward
2010:
Best Paper Awards:
Lee Burgunder, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo, for Fur-Free and Obamanable
Debra Burke, Western Carolina University, for Negotiation, Ethics, and Professionalism, co-authored with Bill McClendon and Lorrie Willey
Honorable Mentions:
David Scalise and Rodney Mock
2009:
Best Paper Awards:
Lynn Forsythe, California State University - Fresno, for Is There a Tragedy of the Commons Problem Looming in the Future for Creative Commons?
Susanna Monseau, College of New Jersey, for Followers of Fashion: Why Passing a Design Protection Law for the Fashion Industry is Misconceived
2008:
Best Paper Awards:
Alexis Stokes, Texas State University, for Short Attacks: Corporate Strategies for Preventing, Recognizing, and Remedying Stock Manipulation through Short Selling
Ida Jones, California State University - Fresno, for Online Discussion Boards: Impact on Learning
2007:
Best Paper Awards:
Carol F. Nowicki, CSU - East Bay, for Who is Entitled to Claim Section 230 Immunity in an Online World?
Richard G. Kunkel, University of St. Thomas - Minnesota, for Applying Real Estate and Consumer Law Principles to Spyware Regulation
2006:
Best Paper Awards:
Carol Nowicki and Rick Kunkel
