Law and Entrepreneurship is a special interest group organized under the auspices of the Articles of incorporation of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) to promote and encourage the development and advancement of programs and services in a specific entrepreneurship field and to provide a forum for information exchange.
GROUP MISSION
To disseminate and share information regarding existing interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship at intersections of law and entrepreneurship, and promote related collaborative initiatives in new pedagogy, research and policy formulation and other service among faculty and other interested parties from multiple disciplines.
GROUP LEADERSHIP
Leadership of the Group is elected annually by the Group membership; questions relative to Group mission, membership; annual work program and objectives should be directed to one of the following members of the leadership team:
Group Chair
 Tony Luppino
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
Tel: 816-235-6165
Email: luppinoa@umkc.edu
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Group Vice-Chair
 Laura Hollis
University of Notre Dame
234F Mendoza College of Business
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel: 574-631-3543
Email: lhollis@nd.edu
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Group Vice-Chair
 Sherry Porter
Northern Kentucky University
304 Nunn Hall
Highland Heights, KY 41099
Tel: 859-572-5384
Email: porters1@nku.edu
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GROUP MEMBERSHIP
A member of USASBE in good standing, that has professional interest in the specific field of the
Group and wishes to pursue expansion and promotion of the field and personal advancement through knowledge exchange and participation in the mission of the
Group, is eligible for membership.
Click here to view a list of members of this group.
GROUP ANNUAL GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Annually as an element of the Association’s strategic planning process, the Group is to develop a work plan that outlines goals and objectives for the year. Outlined below are annual goals and objectives adopted by the Group:
- Grow membership, with special emphasis on adding more members from academic units outside of law schools.
- Refine Group objectives and post them on USASBE website, along with other webpage information for Group, emphasizing its focus on interdisciplinary collaboration on teaching, research, policy development and other service at intersections of law and entrepreneurship.
- Establish a social media communication platform for Interest Group connected to USASBE, and utilize these platforms to communicate. This is to include a bulletin board system of announcing in advance attendance of Group members at various significant mid-year conferences to facilitate networking of Interest Group members at such conferences.
- Develop a newsletter process to increase communication and participation among Group members; therefore increase overall benefit to both the Group and USASBE
- Coordinate a special project connecting faculty who have been working on the development of business cases with significant legal issues highlighted.
- Promote the generation of new interdisciplinary papers by Interest Group members.
- Organize a preconference for the January, 2012 USASBE conference, and a full or partial track for the regular January 2012 conference.
