Dedicated teaching attorneys who gather yearly to foster and encourage relevant scholarship and state of the art academic skills

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The Pacific Southwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business (PSWALSB) is made up of dedicated teaching attorneys who gather yearly to foster and encourage relevant scholarship and state of the art academic skills. Our region includes Southern California, Arizona, Southern Nevada and Hawaii; however, we also have members from many other states including New York, Colorado, Maryland, and Washington to name a few and several countries. All of us teach at higher educational institutions.

 

Established 1961, PSWALSB is one of eleven regional subdivisions of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB).

 

ALSB, founded in 1924, is an association of legal professors and scholars with over 1,000 members teaching predominately in schools of business in colleges and universities. Members come from all fifty states, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, England, and other nations. 

 

Like the academy itself, PSWALSB works to foster understanding and cooperation between college and university administrators and our constituency.

 

 

Welcome To PSWALB!

 

Save the Date 2/12/2026


ANNUAL BUSINESS LAW CONFERENCE PRESIDENT’S DAY WEEKEND 2026

FEBRUARY 12-15, 2026 HILTON PALM SPRINGS RESORT


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Past conference attendees have received 6-8 hours of CLE credit.

Thank you everyone for making our conference once again the Best Regional Conference of 2025!  

 

Registration fee for 2026: $350.00!!!! INCLUDES: Full breakfasts Friday and Saturday morning, Friday Evening poolside Reception and Saturday night Banquet! 

New Retiree Registration Fee: $250.00

Your banquet Guest fee is $65.00 also includes the early morning breakfasts, and the poolside happy hour immediately before the banquet.

Hilton Hotel rooms reserved at only $215.00 a night! Use Code LSB when calling (800) 216-1952. 

 

Enjoy the famous desert, present a paper, get a great educational experience, and meet and exchange ideas with colleagues!

 

And there’s more! Paper submissions eligible for cash awards of $500.00, $200.00 and $100.00.

The Journal of Law, Business and Ethics is sponsored by the PSWALSB.  Open submissions

Eligibility for prizes subject to rules and conditions:

Papers must not have been accepted for publication in another journal or publication; and must not have been previously published elsewhere.

Papers must be submitted for consideration at least one week before start of the conference (Feb. 12th, 2026).

Papers must adhere to bluebook citation format.

Manuscript must include a Title page with the full name of the author(s), university, and full title of the manuscript. All additional pages of the manuscript must be void of any identifying information as it pertains to the author(s) and title.

Paper must be submitted as a Word or .pdf document and emailed as an attachment to the PSWLSB conference chair, Paul Naccachian pnaccachian@laverne.edu

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Conference Registration

Click Pay Options to Pay through PayPal, Credit Card or pay directly to PSWALSB bank account with Zelle use: marsha.cooper@csulb.edu

If using a check: make payable to PSWALSB; mail to: Marsha Cooper 5516 Linda Drive Torrance, CA 90505

Questions are invited!

Please contact the Conference Chair:

Robert Landry rlandry@jsu.edu

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Since 1961 our conferences have been held in Southern CA. For the past 30 years our conferences have been held in Palm Springs, California with 25 years at the Hilton Palm Springs. For many years we have taken advantage of the President’s Day weekend to hold our lively, robust, and congenial conferences. Each member participant gives each other member curtesy, encouragement, and support. Consequesntly, PSWALSB has a reputation of being the best each year.  This is also true due to our Board-which chooses a new rotating member each year as the President rotates to the status of Immediate Past President before ending his or her last year in the rotation.

PSWALSB 2025-2026 Board

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Conference Payment

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Member Fee

$350 ($395 after 12/15)

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Member Fee & Banquet Guest

$415 ($460 after 12/15)

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New Retired Member

$250 ($295 after 12/15)

Journal

Material submitted must be original and previously unpublished, in whole or in part. When submitting, please provide your complete mailing address, phone and fax numbers, and email address.

Cover page of the Winter 2024 issue of the Journal of Law, Business & Ethics, Volume 30, featuring article titles on negotiation, compensation, business ethics, and accounting challenges.

Submissions can be made via:

Submissions can be made via:
pnaccachian@laverne.edu
(the Journal is listed as “Journal of Law, Business & Ethics”.)
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Journal of Law, Business & Ethics

Journal of Law, Business & Ethics
a publication of the
Pacific Southwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business, Inc.

The Journal of Law, Business & Ethics welcomes your submission of
articles on business law and related topics. Learn more about the Journal.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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Paul Naccachian
University of La Verne, College of Law
320 E D Street
Ontario, CA 91764
e: pnaccachian@laverne.edu

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Best Paper Awards

2024

John Holden

2020

Rebecca Nieman

EXPANDING THE PARADIGM IN BUSINESS LAW CURRICULUM: BRIDGING THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE GAP FOR SMALL BUSINESSES STARTS IN THE CLASSROOM

27 Widener Law Rev. 1 (2021).

2016

Michael Garrison

EMPLOYEE NON-COMPETES AND CONSIDERATION: A PROPOSED GOOD FAITH STANDARD FOR THE “AFTERTHOUGHT” AGREEMENT

2013

Lee B. Burgunder


OPPORTUNISTIC TRADEMARKING OF SLOGANS: IT’S NO CLOWN ISSUE, BRO




Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
31 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 769 (2013).

2010

Audrey Wolfson Latourette

PLAGIARISM:
LEGAL AND ETHICAL
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE UNIVERSITY

Journal of College and University Law
37 J.C. & U.L. 1 (2010).

2023

Mallorie Jones

The Monopolization Over Compensation

30 Journal of Law, Business & Ethics 2024

2019

Larry Bungardner

THE SECOND CIRCUIT’S SECOND GUESSING ON INSIDER TRADING CASES

2015

John Dorocak

WHY IS OBAMACARE CONSTITUTIONAL WHILE DOMA WAS NOT?
HOW LIBERTARIAN IS THE CONSTITUTION? (“…TIP MY HAT TO THE NEW CONSTITUTION, TAKE A BOW FOR THE NEW REVOLUTION…”?)


Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal
14 Conn. Pub. Int. L.J. 1 (2014).

2012

Jamie Darin Prenkert, Julie Manning Magid, and Allison Fetter-Harrott

RETALIATORY DISCLOSURE: WHEN IDENTIFYING
THE COMPLAINANT IS ADVERSE ACTION


North Carolina Law Review
91 N.C.L. Rev. 889 (2013).

2009

T. Leigh Anenson

LIMITING LEGAL REMEDIES: AN ANALYSIS OF UNCLEAN HANDS


Kentucky Law Journal
99 KY. L.J. 63 (2010).

2007

Robert J. Aalberts, David Hames & Paul Thistle

DETOURS AND FROLICS ON THE INTERNET:
EMPLOYER LIABILITY AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL OF CYBERTORTS

Journal of Business Research
62 J. BUS. RES. 1335 (2009).

2022

Tyler Smith

2017

Gerlinde Berger-Walliser and Inara Scott

THE REGULATION OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY:
AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

2014

Josephine Sandler Nelson

THE CORPORATE CONSPIRACY VACUUM
(formerly: CORPORATE CONSPIRACY: HOW NOT CALLING
A CONSPIRACY A CONSPIRACY IS WARPING THE LAW
ON CORPORATE WRONGDOING

Cardozo Law Review
forthcoming (2015).

2011

Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Bjorn Walliser, Nancy Metz, and Melanie Stallings Williams

LEGAL ASPECTS OF AMBUSH MARKETING: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH


Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law
21 Tul. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 1 (2012).

2008

Kevin S. Marshall

THE UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICE OF HIRING ILLEGAL ALIEN WORKERS


University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law
11 U. PA. J. BUS. & EMP. L. 49 (2008).

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