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Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander, University of Georgia
Laura P. Hartman, DePaul University

ISBN: 0073524964
Copyright year: 2012

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Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander University of Georgia

Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander, Esq., is a multi-award-winning tenured associate professor of employment law and legal studies at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business and an attorney admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and six federal jurisdictions. She is a cum laude graduate of the Howard University School of Law and a magna cum laude graduate of the Federal City College, now the University of the District of Columbia. She authors, with Linda F. Harrison, McGraw Hill’s groundbreaking text The Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Environment of Business in a Diverse Society published in 2011. She was cofounder and co-chair, with her coauthor, of the Employment and Labor Law Section of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and coeditor of the Section’s Employment and Labor Law Quarterly; past co-editor of the section’s newsletter; and past-president of the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business. Bennett-Alexander taught employment law in the University of North Florida’s MBA program from 1982 to 1987 and has been conducting employment law seminars for managers and supervisors since 1985. Prior to teaching, Bennett-Alexander worked at the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Whitehouse Domestic Council, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and Antioch School of Law, the U.S. Department of Justice, and as law clerk to the Honorable Julia Cooper Mack at the highest court in the District of Columbia, the D.C. Court of Appeals. Bennett-Alexander publishes widely in the employment law area; is a noted expert on employment law and diversity issues; was asked to write the first-ever sexual harassment entry for Grolier Encyclopedia; edited the National Employee Rights Institute’s definitive book on federal employment; has chapters in several other books including five employment law entries in Sage Publications’ Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; has been widely quoted on TV, radio, and in the print press, including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune magazine; and was founder of Practical Diversity, consultants on diversity and employment law issues. Bennett-Alexander was a 2000–2001 recipient of the Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship under which she taught at the Ghana School of Law in Ghana, West Africa, and conducted research on race and gender in employment. She has also taught in Budapest, Krakow, Austria, Prague, Australia, New Zealand, and Costa Rica. She is the recipient of the 2011 University of Georgia President’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Fulfilling the Dream Award for her outstanding work in building bridges to understanding and unity, the 2010 recipient of the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business inaugural Diversity Award, and the 2009 recipient of the Ernst & Young Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School faculty. She dedicates all her research and writing to her ancestors, three daughters, and her two grandchildren.

Laura P. Hartman DePaul University

Laura Hartman is Vincent de Paul Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies in DePaul University’s College of Commerce, and special assistant to the president for DePaul’s Haiti Initiatives. She also serves as research director of DePaul’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. In her work in the private sector, she is director of external partnerships for Zynga.org, the philanthropic arm of Zynga Game Network. She has received the university’s Excellence in Teaching Award, the Spirit of DePaul Award, and t he Woman of Spirit and Action Award in honor of St. Louise de Marillac, the college’s Outstanding Service Award and numerous university and college competitive research grants.

From 2009 to 2010, she represented DePaul University on the Worldwide Vincentian Family’s Vincentian Board for Haiti, a committee responsible for hands-on design and implementation of a micro-development, finance and education system for the poor of Haiti (including its online project, www.zafen.org) and is currently involved in the development of a K-12 school in Mirebalais, Haiti. She was named to that effort after returning to the faculty, having served for a number of years as associate vice president for academic affairs for the university. In that capacity, she was responsible for, among other programs, the administration and adjudication of the Academic Integrity Policy across the entire university (24,000 + students). Hartman also chaired DePaul’s Task Force on Speech and Expression Principles at the request of its president, among numerous other service contributions.

Hartman’s academic scholarship focuses on the alleviation of global poverty through profitable corporate partnerships as well as the ethics of the employment relationship with a primary emphasis on global labor conditions and standards, corporate governance and corporate culture, and the impact of technology on the employment relationship. Hartman has published over 80 books and cases and articles in, among other journals, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business & Society Review, Business Ethics: A European Review, and the Journal of Business Ethics. Her research and consulting efforts have also garnered national media attention by publications such as Fortune Small Business where she was named one of the “Top 10 Minds for Small Business,” as well as The Wall Street Journal, Business-Week, and The New York Times. She also has written or co-written a number of texts, including Alleviating Poverty through Profitable Partnerships: Globalization, Markets & Economic Well-Being, Effective & Ethical Practices in Global Corporations, Rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative Management Approaches to Global Labor Challenges, Employment Law for Business, Perspectives in Business Ethics, and Business Ethics.

Previously, Hartman has served as an invited professor at INSEAD (France), HEC (France), the Gourlay Professor at the Melbourne Business School/Trinity College at the University of Melbourne (2007–2008), the Université Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille III, and the Grenoble Graduate School of Business, among other universities. She has also held DePaul’s Wicklander Chair in Professional Ethics and subsequently was named the Grainger Chair of Business Ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business, where she was identified as one of the top five professors of the year. She was also an adjunct professor of business law and ethics at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where she was placed on the Honor Roll for Excellence in Teaching.

Hartman graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University and received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. She lives in Chicago with her two daughters, Emma and Rachel.


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