Introducing Guest Blogger Carliss Chatman
Professor Chatman is an Associate Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. where she teaches an array of business law, commercial law, and ethics classes. Her scholarship interests are in the fields of corporate law, ethics, and civil procedure. Her scholarship draws on her 11 years of legal practice in complex commercial litigation, mass tort litigation and the representation of small and start-up businesses in the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Professor Chatman’s work is also influenced by over two decades of service on non-profit boards and involvement with community organizations. Through leadership positions, she has developed expertise in corporate governance and non-profit regulation. Professor Chatman has actively advocated on behalf of non-profit organizations at state and federal legislatures.
Her recently published scholarship has addressed corporate personhood and attorney whistleblowers. Her forthcoming scholarship explores the consequences of granting legal personhood to fetuses. She also has a co-authored casebook, Business Entities: A Systems Approach, forthcoming with Carolina Academic Press. In addition to her more traditional scholarship, Professor Chatman also writes for broader audiences, with publications in media including: Slate, Time Magazine, CNN Online, and the Washington Post.
We are grateful to Professor Chatman for taking the time to share her thoughts with our readers today.