John Kuzenski person
John C. Kuzenski is Teaching Assistant Professor of Business Law at Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. He also holds an adjunct appointment in the Master of Public Administration program at the School of Government, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kuzenski is an active member of the North Carolina and District of Columbia Bars, and is admitted to the Bars of several federal district courts, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth and District of Columbia Circuits, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He has served as a law clerk for judges in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and the North Carolina Court of Appeals. He holds the J.D. with Honors from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Law, a Ph.D. in political science from the School of Public and International Affairs at The University of Georgia, an M.A. from Mississippi State University and a B.A. from Louisiana State University, both also in political science. He is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In addition to a lifetime of service to higher education as a professional academician, Kuzenski has served as an incorporator and/or director of a number of professional and nonprofit organizations and as Associate Director of a division of the North Carolina Department of Revenue. His law practice since 2007 has centered on nonprofit, educational and small business transactional issues, and since 2008 he has served as General Counsel for a major national higher education honor society headquartered in Washington, D.C. He also serves as consulting counsel to a number of member organizations within the Association of College Honor Societies in the areas of organization, structure, risk management and governance. His academic interests include constitutional law with an emphasis on powers of government, federalism and commerce issues, common law doctrine and public policy, nonprofit organizations, higher education law, and alternative dispute resolution/negotiation. He is the author, co-author, editor and/or co-editor of numerous scholarly articles that have appeared in edited books, law reviews and social science journals, as well as co-author or co-editor of books from major scholarly presses in the fields of race, law and politics.
James Morgan person
James F. Morgan served as a faculty member within the College of Business at California State University, Chico, from 1981 until his retirement in 2020, when he was designated emeritus professor. With a juris doctor from the Martin Luther King, Jr. School of Law at the University of California, Davis, Professor Morgan is a practicing attorney licensed in California and has been admitted to the bar of a number of federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. While in graduate school, Professor Morgan served as a law clerk to a judge; since becoming an attorney, he has practiced both civil litigation and transaction law. He has functioned as Judge Pro Tem for the California Superior Court.
Having taught at a law school (Business Associations and Securities Law), within a graduate school of business (Managing the Legal Environment), and at the undergraduate level within a college of business, Professor Morgan prefers teaching undergraduate students. He developed the Employment Law and the Law for the Entrepreneur courses for upper-division and graduate-level business students. Professor Morgan has taught a variety of undergraduate courses, including Business Law/Legal Environment of Business, Employment Law, Law for General Education/Personal Law, Law for the Entrepreneur, and Commercial Law. He is the recipient of university and college-level awards for outstanding teaching, service and research. In addition, Professor Morgan has been a member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business for more than thirty years. He has served as Chair of the Department of Management, Associate Dean of the College of Business, and as University Director of Student and Program Assessment. Professor Morgan has participated in many forms of dispute resolution, including service as a commercial arbitrator in the private sector and as the university ombudsperson on his former home campus.
Professor Morgan served on the editorial board for several business and legal journals. He has authored or co-authored articles in numerous international journals, including the Labor Law Journal; Managerial Law; SAM Advanced Management Journal; International Journal of Business and Public Administration; Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal; Journal of Business and Public Affairs; Employment Relations Today; Employee Relations Law Journal; Journal of Individual Employment Rights; Journal of Education for Business; Journal of Small Business Management; International Journal of Law and Management; and the Journal of Legal Studies Education.
