Business Law

Recent Faculty Publications

Kurt Saunders and Valerie Flugge 

Food for Thought: Professors Saunders and Flugge Consider Whether Intellectual Property Law Protects Recipes and Food Designs 

Professor Kurt Saunders and Professor Valerie Flugge have published an article entitled “Food for Thought: Intellectual Property Protection for Recipes and Food Designs” in the Duke Law & Technology Review.  As any chef will confirm, cooking and food preparation is a creative, sometimes innovative, endeavor.  Much thought and time is invested in selecting ingredients, developing the process for preparing the dish, and designing an interesting or appealing look  and feel for a food item.  The article considers how various forms of intellectual property law have been applied to protect recipes and food designs, along with broader issues relating to how these rights may overlap and their implications for competition.  The article can be found here:  https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1369&context=dltr

 

 Ray Calnan

Connecting to the Real World: Incorporating Student Consulting Projects in Real Estate Programs, 94 Journal of Education for Business (2019) (Melanie Williams & Deborah Cours, co-authors)

 

Nanci Carr

Business Continuity in Light of Coronavirus Disruption - A Group Exercise, 3 ALSB Journal of Business Law and Ethics Pedagogy 1 (2021), available at Volume 3 – Issue 1: Fall 2020 (alsb.org) 

Did You Fail to Tell Me Something, Mom? Nondisclosure Fraud in the Wake of Varsity Blues, 46 U. Dayton L. Rev. 245 (2021), Microsoft Word - Flugge and Carr Shelled .docm (udayton.edu)

Protecting the Commercial Value of Iowans’ Identity Nationwide: A Response to Colon’s Proposed State Statute, 106 Iowa Law Review Online 1 (2021), available at: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/volume-106-response-pieces/1 

Following Bostock, How Employers Can Lead the Way to Embrace Transgender Employees in the Workplace,  Denver Law Review Forum (4/12/2021), available here: https://www.denverlawreview.org/dlr-online-article/howemployerscanleadthewaytoembracetransgenderemployeesintheworkplace
 
One, Two, Sort the Shoe; Three, Four, Win Some More: The Rhyme and Reason of Phil Ivey’s Advantage Play at the Borgata, 12 Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law 37 (2021), available at: https://journals.law.harvard.edu/jsel/

As Society Strives for Reduced Contact During the Pandemic, How Can Human Microchipping Help?, 65 Villanova L. Rev. Tolle Lege 46, (Nov. 4, 2020), available at https://www.villanovalawreview.com/article/17906-as-society-strives-for-reduced-contact-during-the-pandemic-how-can-human-microchipping-help

As the Role of the Driver Changes with Autonomous Vehicle Technology, So, too, Must the Law Change, 51 St. Mary's Law Journal 4 (St. Mary's University School of Law) (Fall 2020), available at https://commons.stmarytx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1069&context=thestmaryslawjournal.

How Can We End #CancelCulture -- Tort Liability or Thumper's Rule?, 28 Catholic University Journal of Law and Technology 133 (Spring 2020), available at https://scholarship.law.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1089&context=jlt. 

Cold Cases Freeze:  Law Enforcement Locked out of DNA Database Used for Investigative Genealogy After Consumers Object to Being Genetic Informations, 98 Washington University Law Review Online 1 (2020), available at https://wustllawreview.org/essays/cold-cases-freeze/. 

Social Media and the Internet Drive the Need for a Federal Statute to Protect the Commercial Value of Identity, 22 Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property 31 (Spring 2020)

When Worlds Collide: Protecting Physical World Interests Against Virtual World Malfeasance, 26 Michigan Technology Law Review 279 (2020) (Hilary Silvia, co-author)

Look! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, it's a Trespassing Drone, 23 Journal of Technology Law & Policy 147 (University of Florida) (2019).

“#Sp” or “Thanks [Brand]” is Not Enough:  FTC Guides for Social Media Influencers on Endorsements and Testimonials, 9 Wake Forest Law Review Online 66 (2019), available at http://www.wakeforestlawreview.com/2019/09/sp-or-thanks-brand-is-not-enough-ftc-guides-for-social-media-influencers-on-endorsements-and-testimonials/

Am I My Brother’s Keeper? How Technology Necessitates Reform of the Lack of Duty to Rescue or Duty to Report Laws in the United States, 29 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 117 (2019) (Sharon Yamen & Aaron Bartholomew, co-authors)

Was Allergan’s Patent-Housing Agreement in Exchange for Sovereign Immunity a “Sham to Subvert the Existing Intellectual Property System?”, 46 Rutgers Law Record 31, (2018), available at https://lawrecord.com/files/46_Rutgers_L_Rec_31.pdf

Improve Student Success with Classroom Technology Use by Applying the Five Gears for Activating Learning, 1 Journal of Business Law & Ethics Pedagogy 17 (2018), available at https://www.jblep.com/journal-issues.html

 

Wade Chumney

Why Ethics Matter, Chapter 1 in Business Ethics, (OpenStax 2018), available at https://openstax.org/details/books/business-ethics

Defining and Prioritizing Stakeholders, Chapter 3 in Business Ethics, (OpenStax 2018), available at https://openstax.org/details/books/business-ethics

 

Nina Golden

Skill or Secret? – The Line Between Trade Secrets and Employee General Skills and Knowledge, 15 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW & BUSINESS 61 (2019) (Kurt M. Saunders, co-author), available at https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/716e9c_45403c8090bd414a9b6223e343bd0db3.pdf

 

Chris Ng

Pay-When-Paid: Courts Hold a ‘Reasonable Time’ Now Has to Be Reasonable, Business Credit Magazine (May 2020)

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Bankruptcy in the Construction Industry, chapter 12 in California Construction Law (18th ed. Wolter Kluwer Law & Business 2019) (Kenneth C. Gibbs & Gordon Hunt, co-authors)

Construction Industry Credit is Not for the Faint of Heart, Business Credit Magazine (May 2019)

General Contractors are Enforcing Statutory Right to Inspect Subcontractor Payroll Records, Business Credit Journal (October 2018)

 

Stuart Pardau

The California Consumer Privacy Act: Towards A European-Style Privacy Regime in the United States?, 23 Journal of Technology Law & Policy 68 (2018)

Good Intentions and the Road to Regulatory Hell: How the TCPA Went From Consumer Protection Statute to Litigation Nightmare, 2018 JOURNAL OF LAW, TECHNOLOGY & POLICY 313 (2018), available at https://illinoisjltp.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Pardau.pdf

The CCPA and When Privacy Law Overlooks Internal Compliance Functions, CEP MAGAZINE (August 2020), available at: https://compliancecosmos.org/ccpa-and-when-privacy-law-overlooks-internal-compliance-functions?authkey=ec25eb69dfc871d0277cf712aad3e4c39aaeae8d7dced2515e6968923a1a1166

 

Kurt M. Saunders

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE LAW OF IDEAS (Routledge: Taylor & Francis, 2021).  Publisher link: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429021084/intellectual-property-law-ideas-kurt-saunders

Criminal Trade Secret Theft Cases Against Judgment Proof Defendants in Texas and California, 10 WILLIAM & MARY BUSINESS LAW REVIEW 579 (2019) (Michelle Evans, co-author), available at https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmblr/vol10/iss3/2/

Skill or Secret? – The Line Between Trade Secrets and Employee General Skills and Knowledge, 15 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW & BUSINESS 61 (2019) (Nina Golden, co-author), available at https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/716e9c_45403c8090bd414a9b6223e343bd0db3.pdf

More Than an Academic Question: Defining Student Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights, 28 FORDHAM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 175 (2018) (Michael Lozano, co-author), available at https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/iplj/vol28/iss2/1/

 

Hilary Silvia

Learning Law Through Pleadings of the Rich and Infamous, 38 Journal of Legal Studies in Education (2021).
 
In Defense of the Landlord: A New Understanding of the Property Owner. The Urban Lawyer, American Bar Association,vol.50(3) (2020). 

When Worlds Collide: Protecting Physical World Interests Against Virtual World Malfeasance, 26 Michigan Technology Law Review 279 (2020) (Nanci K. Carr, co-author)

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Disclosing The Inevitable- Reconciling The Varied Requirements For The Disclosure Of Death On Real Property, 32 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 183 (2018)

 

Melanie Williams

University Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies in the Humanities, 49 Journal of College Reading & Learning 160 (2019) (Peter Havens, co-author)

Masters of the Universe: Bid Rigging by Private Equity Firms in Multibillion Dollar LBOs, 87 University of Cincinnati Law Review 29 (2019) (Christopher M. Burke, Stephanie A. Hackett, David W. Mitchell, Simon J. Wilke, Michael A. Williams, Wei Zhao co-authors), available at https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/vol87/iss1/2/

Connecting to the Real World: Incorporating Student Consulting Projects in Real Estate Programs, 94 Journal of Education for Business (2019) (Ray Calnan, & Deborah Cours, co-authors)

 

Valerie Flugge

Did You Fail to Tell Me Something, Mom? Nondisclosure Fraud in the Wake of Varsity Blues, 46 U. Dayton L. Rev. 245 (2021), Microsoft Word - Flugge and Carr Shelled .docm (udayton.edu)

Updated: 9/2020