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Faculty
Melanie Stallings Williams, J.D.
Department Chair, Professor
Office telephone: (818) 677-2905
Faculty office: JH 3121
Email: melanie.williams@csun.edu
Professor Williams is a professor and chair of the Department of Business Law at California State University, Northridge. She teaches at the graduate and undergraduate levels, with courses including traditional Business Law core courses along with Marketing Law, Intellectual Property Law, Ethics and the MBA Introduction to Contemporary Business cross-disciplinary course. Her areas of academic research include antitrust law, intellectual property, biotechnology, small business programs and pedagogy.
Some recent publications include Gia Honnen Weisdorn, Melanie Stallings Williams & Linnea Bernard McCord, Directors' and Officers' Insurance: Don't Leave Home Without It! Business Law News (State Bar of California, Issue 1, 2006); Melanie Stallings Williams, On-Line Resources for Business Law Students, Supplement to Mallor, et al., Business Law: The Ethical Global and E-Commerce Environment (McGraw Hill Irwin, 13th ed., 2006); Gia Honnen Weisdorn, Linnea Bernard McCord & Melanie Stallings Williams, What Board Members Need to Know about D&O Insurance, 17 C2M Consulting to Management 48 (The Journal of Management Consulting, Inc., June 2006); Gia Honnen Weisdorn, Linnea McCord & Melanie Stallings Williams, D & O Policies: Greater Risks – Less Coverage, Graziadio Business Report (2005); W. Hosek and M. Williams, Strategies for Reducing Academic Dishonesty, 21 J. Legal Studies Education 87 (2003); R. Preston McAfee, Kenneth Hendricks, Joshua M. Fried, Melanie Stallings Williams & Michael A. Williams, Measuring Anticompetitive Effects of Mergers when Buyer Power is Concentrated, 79 Texas L. Rev. 1621 (2001), Joshua Fried, R. Preston McAfee, Michael A. Williams, Melanie Stallings Williams, Collusive Bidding in the Market for Corporate Control, 79 Nebraska L. Rev. 48, (2000), and R. P. McAfee, D. Vincent, M. Williams & M. Havens (Williams), Collusive Bidding in Hostile Takeovers, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, (MIT Press, 1994).
Professor Williams has a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and J.D. from Boston University School of Law. She is a member of the State Bar of California and practices in the areas of civil litigation, business matters and intellectual property.
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