LAURIE LUCAS

Biography

Laurie A. Lucas is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies, and holds a William S. Spears Chair in Business Administration. Currently, she is the Director of the Center for Legal Studies & Business Ethics and Chair in Business Ethics at the Spears School of Business. Her research interests are in the areas of consumer finance, law and entrepreneurship, and business ethics.

She is an Advisory Editor-in-Chief for the "American Business Law Journal," a journal of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. She was Editor-in-Chief of the ABLJ for volume 55. From 2013-16 she also served as a Co-editor for the Annual Survey in "The Business Lawyer" for the Consumer Financial Services Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law. In 2018 she joined the Publications Board for the ABA's Business Law Section. Finally, she is a member of the Governing Committee for the Conference of Consumer Finance Law.

In 2011, she received the Greiner Award for Undergraduate Teaching at OSU where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the legal and regulatory environment of business and business ethics.

A graduate of the University of Oklahoma's College of Law, Professor Lucas's work has been published in "The Business Lawyer," the "American Business Law Journal," the "Loyola Journal of Consumer Law," and the "Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report," among other legal and business journals. Prior to entering academia, she practiced bankruptcy law in Oklahoma City. She is a member of the American and Oklahoma Bar Associations, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, the Conference on Consumer Finance Law, and the Society for Business Ethics.