RALEIGH — Professor Lauren A. Newell, currently the associate dean for academic affairs at Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, will join Campbell University School of Law as a tenured professor of law on Dec. 15, 2022, Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced.
Prior to joining the ONU Law faculty in 2012, Newell practiced corporate law with Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP in New York City.
Newell teaches and writes in the areas of business and securities law, dispute resolution and marijuana law. She is qualified as a nonpublic arbitrator of securities industry disputes through the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
She teaches courses in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business Organizations, Negotiation and Securities Regulation.
Her recent publications include “High Crimes: Liability for Directors of Retail Marijuana Corporations,” 16 N.Y.U. J. L. & BUS. 419 (2020); “Rebooting Empathy for the Digital Generation Lawyer,” 34 OHIO ST. J. ON DISP. RESOL. 1 (2019) and “Up in Smoke? Unintended Consequences of Retail Marijuana Laws for Partnerships,” 38 CARDOZO L. REV. 1343 (2017).
Newell earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from Georgetown University and her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
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