Courses

This page will introduce the various courses for which I am currently responsible.

Capitalism & Professional Identity: The essay below, authored by Jim Otteson and Matthew Phillips, was originally published in the Wake Forest Business magazine. Capitalism and professional...
'Brexit' means trouble for Democrats and Republicans: Originally published in the North State Journal. The critical lens for understanding the ‘Brexit’ vote is sovereignty: the foundational right to...
Just-in-time online content through VoiceThread: Snow days are great, but when weather canceled the second of five class sessions in an intensive business law class...
Inconsistent Ethics: The New York Times published an article today about inconsistencies in ethical analysis. Author Matthew Hutson reviews the factors that dictate...
Start at the Top: WIRED Magazine reports on a study more fully covered in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which researchers found that...
Higher expectations: Two of the distinguishing characteristics of contemporary American society are political polarization and low expectations of public figures. Aaron Sorkin's...
Leaders ask "Why?": Why is Apple so consistently successful? Why did Martin Luther King, Jr., become the preeminent leader of the civil rights...
Why Good People Do Bad Things: Against all expectations, NPR has used comic-book graphics to convey a story on the psychology of fraud, along with the...
Are you an investing psychopath?: Lynn Stout, a professor of corporate and business law, writes in The Atlantic about the ways investors bifurcate their approach to...
Quick and Dirty Intellectual Property: This entertaining and well-done mini-documentary is the best explanation of current trends in intellectual property that I've seen. Kirby Ferguson...