Employment Law for Business

By:   Dawn Bennett-Alexander, Laura Hartman
Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Education
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   11th edition
ISBN:   9781266878916
ISBN 10:   1266878912
Publication Date:   24 April 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dawn Bennett-Alexander earned her B.S. in sociology at Federal City College (now the University of the District of Columbia) and her J.D. at Howard University School of Law. She is a tenured associate professor of employment law and legal studies at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business. She has been admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia as well as six federal jurisdictions. Before teaching, Professor Bennett-Alexander worked at the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the White House Domestic Council, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice Appellate Division, and Antioch School of Law. Laura Pincus Hartman is Executive Director of the School of Choice Education Organization, a U.S.–based nonprofit that she cofounded, which oversees the School of Choice/L’Ecole de Choix, a unique leadership development education program in Haiti that serves children and families living in extreme conditions of poverty.  Hartman also is professor emerita at DePaul University. She held a number of roles during her almost three-decade career there, including Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vincent de Paul Professor of Business Ethics at DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business, and Director of its Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. From 2015 to 2017, Hartman also served as the inaugural Director of the Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy at Boston University and Clinical Professor of Business Ethics in BU’s Department of Organizational Behavior. She has been privileged to serve as an Associated Professor at the Kedge Business School (Marseille, France) and has taught as a visiting professor at INSEAD (France), HEC (France), the Université Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille III, the University of Toulouse, and the Grenoble Graduate School of Business, and served as the Gourley Professor of Ethics at the Melbourne Business School.  Hartman is past president of the Society for Business Ethics and established its Professional Mentorship Program. She is the coauthor of Employment Law for Business (McGraw-Hill). Hartman graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University and received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. She divides her time between Haiti and Sint Maarten, and has been a mother to two daughters.