ELLWOOD OAKLEY, JD Retired Associate Professor of Legal Studies eoakley@gsu.edu

Ellwood (Ebb) Oakley retired on June 1st from his position as associate professor of legal studies in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He will continue to teach on a part-time basis. Professor Oakley was educated at Auburn University (B.S.), Emory University (M.A.) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.), where he was a staff editor of The Tax Lawyer. He is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Eta Sigma.

He served in the U.S. Navy as the legal and administrative officer of a cruiser during a Vietnam tour. He was a partner in the Atlanta law firm of Dodd, Connell & Hughes from 1974 to 1988, where his practice centered on business and health care litigation.

Until his recent retirement, Professor Oakley taught courses in business law, health law, negotiations, insurance law, and the legal and ethical environment of business in Robinson's MBA program. He received the distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Business in 1993, as well as a national teaching award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business in 2000. He has participated in medical/legal programs as a faculty fellow at Dartmouth College and the Medical University of South Carolina.

Professor Oakley's research interests focus on increased use of alternative dispute resolution in business and applied business ethics. His works have been published in the Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Ethics, South Carolina Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, Journal of Insurance Regulation, Georgia Bar Journal, North American Actuarial Journal, and The CPA Journal.

Mr. Oakley currently serves as a Senior Arbitrator and Mediator on panels of the American Arbitration Association, the National Association of Securities Dealers ("Large and Complex Case" Designation), the American Health Lawyers Association, and as an Administrative Hearing Officer for the State Health Planning Agency (Certificate of Need). He has mediated or arbitrated over 200 business-related disputes.

Professor Oakley consults with public and private companies on matters of designing and implementing ethics compliance programs. He also conducts corporate training programs on effective negotiation skills development, based on his participation in the Harvard Law School's "Teaching Negotiations" workshop.