Prof. Bishara provided an overview of corporate governance documents, structures, the role of general counsel in corporate governance and common legal issues. The class also gave students an opportunity to apply their legal and business knowledge to sort out a couple of public policy and ethical dilemmas to give a flavor of some things they might encounter in their careers.

The class used Hawaiian Airlines as the subject for discussion and through-line for examples of topics in ethics, public advocacy, and governance — wrapping up with Prof. Bishara’s specific experiences working in the area of restrictive covenants. He discussed how corporate attorney’s interact with their clients, legislatures, and regulators to not only apply the law, but to influence its creation and interpretation.

Professor Bishara earned his JD from Cornell University and subsequently spent three years in private practice in New York before pursuing a Master’s in Public Policy with a focus on legal reform and international development from the University of Michigan. After obtaining his MPP, Professor Bishara began his teaching career at the Ross School of Business, where he is now an Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics. bIn his role as a professor, he teaches courses including “Business and Public Policy” and “Ethics of Corporate Management.” Professor Bishara’s research covers topics such as corporate governance, corruption as a constraint on business activity, and the impact of non-compete agreements on employee mobility. He has also been involved in international legal reform and business ethics, particularly in the Middle East. His extensive research has been featured in notable publications such as the Vanderbilt Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, and the Journal of Law and Economics. In addition to his academic work, Professor Bishara is currently a staff editor of the American Business Law Journal.

You can learn more about Prof. Bishara at: https://graham.umich.edu/users/nbishara

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Prof. Nydia Remolina

Assistant Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law, Fintech Track Lead and Head of Industry Relations at the SMU Centre for AI and Data Governance

Prof. Loza de Silas

Assistant Professor of Law at William S. Richardson School of Law; IEEE-USA Artificial Intelligence Policy Committee; IEEE P2863 Working Group on the Organizational Governance of Artificial Intelligence

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(Pictured: Professor Booth, middle, with students in the International Bankruptcy Course at the University of Pittsburgh, Ret. Hon. Allan Gropper, fifth from left, and Professor Eric A . Schaffer – Univ. of Pittsburgh, fourth from left)

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Sunday, February 5th, 3:00 pm, Classroom 1, Richardson Law
Bargaining/Negotiations Workshop with Joe Burns and Eric Gill
Eric Gill is the elected leader and Financial Secretary-Treasurer of UNITE HERE Local 5, Hawaii’s hospitality, food service, and healthcare workers union. A Local 5member since 1976, Eric has led the 10,000-member union since 2000. In 2012, Eric and other Local 5 members joined with 90 community leaders to form AiKea,an alliance of community and civic organizations focused on building a social and political movement to improve the future of Hawai’i. Central to the success ofLocal 5 and UNITE HERE’s program has been the union’s internal committee-building program that has produced a generation of effective worker leaders, trainingthem to become effective organizers.
Also a Vice-President of the UNITE HERE International Union, he has been a central figure in UNITE HERE’s various national campaigns, including the 2018 7-citystrike against the Marriott Corporation and the national electoral campaign to defeat Trump. Eric is currently driving a program to improve the union’s ideologicaltraining in class consciousness and analysis for the most advanced leaders in the workplaces and on the union staff.

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On September 14th, Professor Charles Booth participated in the 12th Forum on Asian Insolvency Reform, speaking on the “What is Different About Micro-, Small-, and Medium-Sized Enterprises that Justifies the Need for Specialized Procedures?”

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