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Susan Samuelson


Professor of Business Law/Faculty Director, EMBA Program
Markets, Public Policy and Law
 
Phone: (617)353-2033
Fax: (617)353-5244
E-Mail: ssamuels@bu.edu
Website: http://bizlawupdate.com/
Office: 643A
Office
Hours:
Tues. 2:00pm-3:00pm
Address: Boston University School of Management
595 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
 
 

Education

Harvard University
A.B., Economics

Harvard University
J.D., Law

 

Current Courses

GSM PL 700 B1 Current Topics in Law and Ethics

GSM PL 700 C1 Current Topics in Law and Ethics

GSM PL 700 P1 Current Topics in Law and Ethics

 
 

Selected Publications

Articles

Refereed

"Howe Corporation: Managing an In-House Legal Department" Case Research Journal (Spring 1991)16-42
 
"Antitrust Revisited: Implications for Competitive Strategy" Sloan Management Review 30 (1) (Fall 1988)59-64
 

Reviewed

"New Topics for Research in Legal Studies: The Role of Corporate Counsel" American Business Law Journal 30 (2) (September 1992)335-343
 
"Strategic Planning for Law Firms: The Application of Management Theory" University of Pittsburgh Law Review 52 (2) (Winter 1991)435-473
 
"The Prevention of Insider Trading: A Proposal for Revising Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934" Harvard Journal on Legislation 25 (2) (Summer 1991)511-531
 
"The Changing Relationship Between Managers and their Lawyers" Business Horizons 33 (55) (September 1990)21-27
 
"A Statistical Analysis of Law Firm Profitability" Boston University Law Review 70 (2) (March 1990)185-211
 
"The Organizational Structure of Law Firms: Lessons from Management Theory" Ohio State Law Journal, Vol 51, Number 3, 1990, pp.645-673  51 (3) (1990)645-673
 

Professional

"Creating a Viable Structure for Modern Law Firms" National Law Journal April 22 (1991)S12-S13
 

Books

Business Law and the Legal Environment, Standard Edition, 4th Edition  Thomson/West, 2006

See Book

 

Business Law, The Standard Edition  West Legal Studies in Business, 2003

Business Law, the Standard Edition, was written to convey the authors' passion for an exciting and profoundly important discipline. This comprehensive text meets all AACSB curriculum standards and provides excellent preparation for the CPA examination. It is filled with the human conflict that can make a law book sparkle. Business-oriented and highly readable, it utilizes innovative pedagogy and fascinating cases and business applications that are sure to create student interest. Witness the difference in this business law text that is authoritative and accurate yet a pleasure to read.

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Legal Environment Cincinnati, OH:  Thomson/Southwestern, 2002

Shorter introduction to business law.

 

Legal Environment for a New Century  West Legal Studies in Business, 2002

No other text conveys such a passion for this exciting and profoundly important discipline. This comprehensive text meets all AACSB curriculum standards. A focus on human conflict makes the book sparkle. Innovative, chapter-opening vignettes; fascinating cases; and business applications create student interest, while cases are excerpted, or in the language of the court. The result is a legal environment text that is authoritative and accurate, yet a pleasure to read.

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Law Firm Management: A Business Approach  Little, Brown & Company, 1992