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Professor Edward W. De Barbieri teaches courses in community economic development law and directs the Community Economic Development Clinic, which focuses on community-based transactional skills and advocacy. His scholarship examines ways the public can engage in land use approvals and economic development activities and how that engagement can lead to reforms in economic and social systems. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review, Florida State University Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, Fordham Urban Law Journal, and Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law.

Prior to joining the Albany Law School faculty in 2016, Professor De Barbieri directed a community economic development clinic at Brooklyn Law School, and was an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law. His background also includes work as a legal services attorney at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center, beginning as an Equal Justice Works fellow. He spent his final year of law school conducting research in Ireland as a Fulbright fellow, and is a graduate of Yale Divinity School, where he concentrated in religious ethics.

LL.M. National University of Ireland, Cork, MAR Yale Divinity School, J.D. Brooklyn Law School

Professor Patricia Reyhan joined Albany Law School in 1980 as its third female faculty member. In 2002, she was named Albany Law School鈥檚 first Governor George E. Pataki Endowed Professor of International Commercial Law. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita.

Professor Reyhan has authored numerous articles on international law, property, and conflicts of law. Her most noted and cited work, "A Chaotic Palette: Conflict of Laws in Litigation Between Original Owners and Good-Faith Purchasers of Stolen Art," appeared in the Duke Law Journal. Her current scholarly interests are those surrounding the protection of art and cultural property in times of armed conflict.

Professor Reyhan is a graduate of Washington State University (B.A.), Willamette University (J.D.), and Harvard Law School (LL.M.), and served as confidential law clerk for Justice Charles F. Stafford of the high court of the State of Washington.

Stacey Lee, JD, is an Associate Professor of Practice with expertise in business law, health law, and negotiations.鈥疭he is the Academic Program Director for the flagship Full-time MBA program and the Teaching Excellence Initiative Faculty Director. She holds a joint appointment at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests have focused on pharmaceutical manufacturers鈥� international and domestic influence on access to medicines and transformative health care negotiations. 

Before entering academia, Lee practiced law for over 10 years. She began as a securities litigator and later became in-house counsel for two of the country鈥檚 largest health care corporations. She also served as the senior regulatory specialist for the United States鈥� largest national health care trade association. 

She is a Fulbright Specialist for her expertise in negotiations and health care law, and has received numerous research grants and fellowships for her teaching innovations. Her research has focused on how COVID-19 laws and policies affect the employer/employee relationship. She has received several awards for faculty excellence, including the Excellence in Teaching Award, year after year, at both Bloomberg and Carey. In addition, she was a featured TEDx speaker on 鈥淧atient Voices.鈥� 

Her interviews, quotes, and writings have appeared on鈥疌BS, CNN, Bloomberg Radio, USA Today, NPR, TODAY.com, and Voice of America, among other media outlets. Lee鈥檚 work has also been featured in several law reviews and peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Yale Journal of Health Policy and Ethics, Annals of Health Law, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, and Health and Human Rights International Journal. 

Scott J. Shackelford is Cybersecurity Program chair at Indiana University, director of the Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance, and professor of business law and ethics at the IU Kelley School of Business. He is a senior fellow at IU's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, academic director of the IU Cybersecurity Clinic and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Shackelford is also an affiliated scholar at both the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. He has written more than 100 articles, book chapters, essays and op-eds and has been a contributor to The Conversation, the Christian Science Monitor, HuffPost, Security Roundtable, Policy Forum and the World Economic Forum.

He is a former national fellow of the Hoover Institution and a former distinguished fellow of the University of Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. His research includes the book "Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace" (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Gil Fried is a tenured Full Professor at the University of West Florida and chair of the Administration & Law Department, which encompasses legal studies, construction management, sport management, and public administration.  He started at UWF in 2021.  Prior to his appointment at UWF, Professor Fried was a Professor in the Pompea College of Business at the University of New Haven for 21 years and retired with the designation of Professor Emeritus in 2021.  

Professor Fried is a specialist in sport law, finance, and facility management. He received his masters in sport management and his law degree from The Ohio State University. He has written over 13 books on sport risk management, sport facility management, sport analytics, esports, and sport finance. One of the books he wrote is the Academy for Venue Safety and Security (AVSS) textbook used by the International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM).  His other textbooks are used in over 140 universities in the United States and have been translated into Chinese, Russian, and Korean.  He lectures nationally on financial risk management, facility risk management, crowd management/venue safety, and sport safety. His books and lecturing are supplemented with writing numerous industry articles.  He has published over 400 articles focused on facility and law related concerns.  Besides writing for others, he is also the Editor of Sports Facilities & the Law newsletter.  He is regularly quoted in industry publications and periodicals.  In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious Betty van der Smissen Leadership Award from the Sport Recreation and Law Association (SRLA) for outstanding contributions to the field of sport law education.  In 2012 he was awarded the Sport Management Outstanding Achievement Award by the National Association of Sports and Physical Education (NASPE).  This award recognizes professionals who have made outstanding contributions and provided leadership in the field of sport management. 

Professor Fried coordinates the Patron Management Institute and developed their Certificate in Patron Management Program (CPM).  The CPM program is the only multi-disciplinary training program developed through and with industry leaders and designed to ensure participants learn and internalize risk management best practices.  He has handled a large number of sport/music industry liability cases and has worked as an expert witness in various cases from stadium stampedes to foul ball cases.  Some of his cases have involved significant national attention such as the Camp Randall stampede (University of Wisconsin), the Aramark Meadowland drunk driving case, the Wal-Mart Black Friday crowd case, Stow assault case, and the basketball crowd rush case (Kaye) in Phoenix. He also serves on several board of directors of sport related businesses and organizations.  He has an active consulting practice called Gil Fried & Associates, LLC and has several major clients from corporations to insurance companies. 

Charles 鈥淐harlie鈥� Penrod, an Associate Professor of Legal Studies, has conducted research on copyright law, unemployment law, business law and cybercrime, among other topics.

Penrod, who has a J.D. from Louisiana State University, practiced law and taught at Northwestern State University in Louisiana before joining UWF in 2014. He teaches courses on American law, torts, contracts and ethics.

Penrod鈥檚 research has focused on copyright law, sexual harassment protections, and privacy policies for university websites. He is putting more emphasis on copyright law, an increasingly controversial issue as the Internet grows. His peer-reviewed work has been published in Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Loyola Law Review, Universal Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Business Information Systems and Journal of Workplace Rights, to name a few. 

His subjects included 鈥淎 New Approach to Fair Use in Copyright,鈥� e-crime prevention, and 鈥淚mproving Sexual Harassment Protections: An Examination of U.S. University Sexual Harassment Policies.鈥�

As a lawyer in Louisiana, Penrod specialized in employment law and worked as a research attorney for the local court system.

He also was a champion on 鈥淛eopardy,鈥� winning $19,000 while competing on the popular television game show in 2010.

Dr. Brian Elzweig is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance.

Elzweig鈥檚 research focuses on various aspects of business law.  He has published many articles on securities law, general business law, and management issues that impact members of Generation X and subsequent generations.

Elzweig received a BS in Criminology from Florida State University, a JD from California Western School of Law, and an LL.M. in Securities and Financial Regulation form Georgetown University Law Center, and spent nine years at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where he became a full professor. Prior to entering academe, Elzweig spent twelve years in law practice both in the private and public sectors.

His work has been published in the William and Mary Business Law Review, Pace Law Review, Harvard Business Review (online), Journal of Accountancy, Tax Adviser as well as other publications.  His research has been cited numerous times by many high-ranking law and business journals, as well as by the Federal Courts.

Anat Alon-Beck’s research focuses on corporate law and governance.  examines how legal and regulatory structures influence the shift in equities from public markets to private markets, and the rise in the number of “unicorn” firms, which are privately held venture-capital backed startups that are valued at $1 billion or more. She hopes to develop a novel, comprehensive framework within which a deeper understanding of market contracting, regulatory changes, and policy surrounding unicorn firms can be achieved. Her research on these issues is frequently cited by policymakers, judges, leading scholars in the corporate law and finance fields. It was cited to US Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. 
Professor Alon-Beck also focuses on corporate governance, responsible and sustainable business models, operations and investments and new social paradigms. She wants her students to be able to recognize the exciting potential for business law to create multiple forms of value for all stakeholders, including society at large. She is passionate about empowering women to advance in entrepreneurship and leadership positions in the business world. Her scholarly articles are . 
Professor Alon-Beck has a column on Forbes.com (). She often opines on business law cases in various media outlets, including TV, radio, newspapers, podcasts and others. She was recently elected to the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Transactional Law & Skills Executive Committee. 
Professor Alon-Beck joins the faculty of Case Western Reserve from New York University School of Law, where she served as the Jacobson Fellow in Law and Business. Prior to NYU, she was a visiting assistant professor of International Business and Management at Dickinson College.
Professor Alon-Beck holds JSD and LLM degrees, with honors, from Cornell Law School, where she served as an editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. She received her LLB from Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law and served as an editor of Theoretical Inquiries in Law.

Before joining the CWRU faculty, Juscelino Colares, clerked for the Hon. Jean-Louis Debré, chief justice of France’s Constitutional Court (2008-09 term) and practiced at Dewey Ballantine, LLP in Washington, D.C., where he litigated trade cases before federal agencies, federal courts, and NAFTA panels. Colares has served as chair of the University Faculty Senate and associate dean for Global Legal Studies. 
A native of Brazil and naturalized citizen of the United States, Colares has been appointed by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to serve on the U.S. Roster of North American Free Trade Agreement (Chapter Nineteen) Panelists since 2013. This spring, USTR appointed him to the first U.S. Roster of United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement Panelists. For the last six years, Colares has organized a series of Trade Law Fall Updates, a practitioner-oriented gathering of leading trade lawyers, federal judges, and trade agency officials that has attracted much visibility to CWRU Law, as well as opportunities for his students and recent graduates.  Besides trade law, Colares teaches civil procedure, conflict of laws, and a variety of courses on business and regulatory law.  
Winner of the 2018 Faculty Research Award, Colares is the author of more than 35 articles and book chapters, and, more recently, the book, titled Restructuring Trade Agreements (Wolters Kluwer 2021).  His work has appeared in leading peer-review journals and law reviews, including the American Law and Economics Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of International Economic Law, Journal of World Trade, Jurimetrics, Columbia Journal of European Law, Cornell International Law Journal; Georgetown Journal of International Law; and Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.  Colares enjoys running, riding motorcycles, and eating with friends wherever he may find them. 
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Publications


Book
Colares, Juscelino F. Restructuring Trade Agreements, Wolters Kluwer/KLI Business (Aug. 2021) (with Mustafa Durmus). Available for purchase at: 
Colares, Juscelino F. "The Extraterritorial Impact of the EU and Australian Carbon-Restricting Reforms," in Market-Based Instruments-National Experiences in Environmental Sustainability 1, 106 (Larry Kreiser, David Huff, Janet E. Milne and Hope Ashiabor, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd.) (2013) (peer reviewed).
Articles
Colares, J.F. and Durmus, Mustafa T. Turkey as a WTO Litigant: A Case of Waived Leverage and Mismatched Policy Ends and Means, 51.4 Georgetown Journal of International Law 854 (2020), available at .
 
Colares, J.F. and Durmus, Mustafa T. TURK-SWITCH: The Tariff-Leverage and Legal Case for Turkey's Shift from Customs Union to FTA with the European Union and Beyond, 22.1 Journal of International Economic Law 99 (2019) (peer reviewed), available at .
Colares, J.F. and Rode, Ashwin. The Opportunities and Limitations of Neutral Carbon Tariffs, 19(2) American Law and Economics Rev. 423 (2017) (peer reviewed), available at: .
Colares, J.F. Canada, United States and European Union—Out of Synch on Trade Agreements? Or Are We Sympatico? 41 Canada-United States L. J. 46 (2017) (requested submission).
Colares, J.F. and Canterberry, William. Not COOL: How the Appellate Body Misconstrued the National Treatment Principle, Severely Restricting Agency Discretion to Promulgate Pro-Consumer, Labeling Rules, 51:1 Journal of World Trade 105 (2017) (peer reviewed).
Colares, J.F. & Ristovski, K. Pleading Patterns and the Role of Litigation as a Driver of Federal Climate Change Legislation, 54.4 Jurimetrics 329 (2015) (peer-reviewed), available at .
Colares, J.F. The Dynamics and Global Implications of Subglobal Carbon-Restricting Regimes, 25.3 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 417 (2013), available at .
Colares, J.F. Paths to Carbon Stabilization: How Foreign Carbon-Restricting Reforms Will Affect US Industry, Climate Policy and the Prospects of a Binding Emission Reduction Treaty, 47.2 Journal of World Trade 281 (2013) (peer-reviewed), available at .
Colares, J.F. The Reality of EU-Conformity Litigation in France, 18.3 Columbia Journal of European Law 369 (2012) (peer-reviewed), available at .
Colares, J.F. The Limits of WTO Adjudication: Is Compliance the Problem?, 14.2 Journal of International Economic Law 403 (2011) (peer-reviewed), available at . 



Education



Juris Doctor
 
Cornell University




Doctor of Philosophy 
Political Economy
 
University of Tennessee




Master of Arts
 
Political Economy
 
University of Tennessee




Bachelor of Laws
 
Universidade de Brasília/Universidade Federal do Ceará

Thomas’ research explores the normative and conceptual foundations of corporate and white-collar crime. He writes on issues of corporate agency, legal personhood, and theories of punishment. He frequently comments on issues of criminal law and business, having appeared in media outlets including the Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. He teaches Business Law topics. Thomas holds a BA from Columbia University and earned his JD and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Michigan.

Joshua E. Bienstock has been a practicing employment and labor lawyer for 30 years, and a mediator for over 10 years. His research focuses on conflict resolution in the world of higher education and how different cultures contrast in their approach to conflict resolution. For over a decade he has been an invited lecturer at Cornell University and the City University of New York (CUNY), addressing business, governmental and educational delegations from Vietnam, Korea, and China on the topics of conflict resolution and collective bargaining. He has been an invited international speaker, presenting a series of lectures in China related to conflict resolution, collective bargaining, negotiation, mediation, and arbitration to faculty, students, and lawyers in seven universities and three law firms/non-governmental organizations in 2013 and 2014. Recently, he was invited by CUNY to speak to a group of visiting civil servants from Jinlin, China.
Bienstock is also certified by the New York State Office of Court Administration to provide Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses to members of the New York State Bar. In the past, he has conducted CLE courses on “Alternative Dispute Resolution for Lawyers” and “Negotiating Techniques and Strategies for Lawyers” and recently developed a CLE course on the topic of “Mediation Skills for Lawyers.”
The author of a monthly article in the Queensboro 麻豆传媒 Magazine of the Queens Chamber of Commerce on topics related to labor and employment law and conflict resolution, Bienstock has published a series of articles on doing business with international business partners and effectively negotiating in a culturally diverse world. Articles cover China, South Korea, Jamaica, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates.