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- Associate Dean of Academics
- Charles M. Hewitt Professor
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Jamie Darin Prenkert is an Arthur M. Weimer Faculty Fellow and Professor of Business Law. His research focuses on employment discrimination and whistleblowing, as well as business and human rights. Professor Prenkert’s research has appeared in the North Carolina Law Review, the American Business Law Journal, and the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, among others. He is co-editing “Law, Business, and Human Rights: Bridging the Gap,” a volume for Elgar Press due out in early 2014. He was the Editor in Chief of the American Business Law Journal for volume 49 in 2012.
Professor Prenkert has extensive experience facilitating short-term study abroad experiences with undergraduate students to India and Ghana. He will lead one of the inaugural Global Foundations Core-Global Immersion courses to Johannesburg, South Africa in May 2014, where he and his students will study the responsibilities and impacts of business on human rights in the South African extractive, pharmaceutical, and finance industries.
Professor Prenkert earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a B.A., summa cum laude with honors in Political Science, from Anderson University. Prior to joining the Kelley School faculty, Professor Prenkert was a senior trial attorney for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He also practiced with the law firm of Baker & Daniels.
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Areas of Expertise (3)
Employment Discrimination Law
Workplace Bullying and Emotional Abuse
Retaliation Issues
Accomplishments (5)
Ralph J. Bunche Award for the Outstanding International Paper (professional)
2013 Awarded by the American Political Science Association.
Distinguished Proceedings Award (professional)
2013 Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
Best Conference Paper Award (professional)
2012 Pacific Southwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
Outstanding Research Award (professional)
2008 Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.
Harry C. Sauvain Undergraduate Teaching Award (professional)
2008 Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.
Education (2)
Harvard University: J.D., Law 1998
Anderson University: B.A., Political Science 1994
Media Appearances (2)
Kelley School professor Jamie Prenkert named an associate vice provost at IU Bloomington
IU Bloomington Newsroom online
2016-03-25
Jamie D. Prenkert, a faculty member in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, has been appointed associate vice provost for faculty and academic affairs at IU Bloomington. Prenkert is professor and chair of the Department of Business Law and Ethics and an Arthur M. Weimer Faculty Fellow in the Kelley School. His research focuses on employment discrimination as well as business and human rights...
Defining Employer Retaliation in Whistleblower Cases
EHS Today online
2013-01-28
Prenkert, who also is a Weimer Faculty Fellow, noted that simply the possibility of being publicly identified as a complainant is enough to discourage someone from becoming a whistleblower ...
Event Appearances (5)
Conflict Minerals and Polycentric Governance of Business and Human Rights
Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference Boston, MA
2013-08-08
Occam’s Razor in Employment Discrimination Law
Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference Boston, MA
2013-08-08
Retaliatory Disclosure: When Identifying the Complainant Is an Adverse Action
2012 Law & Society Conference Honolulu, HI
2012-06-08
Mixed Motives and the RFOA: A Moderate (and Textually Grounded) Middle Road not Taken
Fourth Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law Newark, NJ
2009-09-26
The Reasonable Factors Other than Age Defense in the Wake of Smith and Meacham
2008 Tri-State Academy of Legal Studies in Business Conference South Bend, IN
2008-10-25
Articles (5)
How Businesses Can Promote Cyber Peace
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law
2014 Multifaceted cyber threats are increasingly impacting the bottom lines of firms, and spilling over into larger issues of geopolitical importance, including international security.
Employment Arbitration at the Crossroads: An Assessment and Call for Action
Journal of Dispute Resolution
2014 This paper seeks to guide this next stage of the debate by first reviewing the doctrinal developments over the past thirty years that led to a settled state of arbitration law. We then exhort the various stakeholders to collectively take up the challenge of this next stage.
Perspectives on Teaching: On Being a “Scholarly” Teacher
Journal of Legal Studies Education
2013 A certain amount of irony accompanies my drafting of this ...
Retaliatory Disclosure: When Identifying the Complainant Is an Adverse Action
North Carolina Law Review
2012 Sometimes the possibility of being publicly identified as a complainant will be enough to discourage a person from complaining. That is especially true when being identified as a complainant exposes her to a greater likelihood of reprisal. This paper addresses the circumstances when such publicity can be deemed materially adverse, such that it ought to be sufficient to support a claim of retaliation.
Handle with Care: Avoiding and Managing Retaliation Claims
Business Horizons
2012 This article provides an overview of anti-retaliation law as it relates to the employer–employee relationship and outlines eight practical tips for managing and avoiding retaliation claims. Though anti-retaliation provisions provide ample reason for employers to proceed with caution in the face of employee complaints, employers need not succumb to paralyzing litigation fear when addressing concerns regarding complaining employees’ performance issues.
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