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Dr. Charles Hartmann
Charles Hartmann, J.D.
Professor of Law
Office: 260-A Rike Hall
Phone: (937) 775-2375
Fax    : (937) 775-3545
Email: charles.hartmann@wright.edu

Abbreviated Vita.

 

 
Course Information
MGT 493 (Summer A 2006)
MBA 740 (Fall 2006)
UH 400    

Professor Hartmann is a Professor of Law in the Department of Management. He teaches business law and public policy courses. He came to Wright State University from Georgetown University in 1970 and was promoted to full professor in the College of Business in 1984.

Educational background: 

  • J.D. The University of Missouri, Columbia (1966)
  • A.B. (Economics) Washington University in St. Louis, 1959 
Courses Taught 
  • The Legal Environment of Business
  • Public Policy in the Business Environment
  • Law, Regulation, Politics and the Social Environment of Business 
Corporate / Professional affiliations: 
  • The American Bar Association
  • The Missouri Bar Association
  • Fellow, The Society for Advanced Legal Studies (UK)

Research fields

  • Economic Analysis of Anglo American Tort Law: Defamation and Privacy
  • Economic Analysis of Law

Publications

  • "Online and at Risk: Evolving Medical-Legal Aspects Of Doctor - Patient Communication"(with Bud Baker, Thomas E.Baker) Business Law Review Vol. 37 (Spring 2004) 17-27.
  • "The Revenge of the Doctors: Medical Malpractice Tort reform in the State of Ohio" (with Bud Baker) Business Law Review Vol. 36 (Spring 2003) 25-35.
  • "Changing Demographics of Federally Employed Attorneys: A 10 Year Retrospective" (with Bud Baker) Business Law Review Vol. 35 (August, 2002) V 41-51
  • "Glass Escalators and Glass Ceilings: Toward Pay Equity for Federally Employed Attorneys" (with Bud Baker) Business Law Review, Vol. 34 (August 2001) 11-20. 
  • "Double Discounting Errors in Ohio Annuity Testimony" (with S. Renas) Ohio Trial, No. 4, (Spring, 2000) p.35.
  • "Cost of Annuity Testimony in Ohio and Double Discounting Errors" (with S. Renas), Business Law Review, Vol.33 (August 2000) 49-58.
  • "The Emergence of a Statutory Right to Privacy Tort in England" Journal of Media Law and Practice, Vol. 16, No.1 (1995)
  • "The Right to Privacy Tort in England", Proceedings of the Midwest Academy of Legal Studies ;in Business, 24 (March, 1994)
  • "The Influence of Smith v. Van Gorkom on Director's and Officer's Liability" (with P. Rogers) The Journal of Risk and Insurance (September, 1991)  
  • "Eliminating Money Damages in Defamation: The Effect of Non-Economic Sanctions on Willingness to Publish" (with S. Renas and J. Walker) Newspaper Research Journal No. 1 (Winter 1990)
  • "An Empirical Analysis of the Chilling Effect: Are Newspapers Affected by Liability Standards in Defamation Actions", (with S. Renas and J. Walker) Published as an invited chapter in Noam, The Cost of Libel: Economic and Policy Implications, Columbia University Press, 1989.
  • "Massimizzazione Dei Profitti Editoral E Diffamazione: Una Analisi Economica Dei Modelli Di Responsabilita" (with S, Renas) Il Diritto Dell' Informazione E Del'Informatica (Rome) 1986
  • "Anglo-American Privacy Law: An Economic Analysis" (with S. Renas)
  •  International Review of Law and Economics 5 (133-152) London, 1985
  • "Concealment of Criminal Histories from Prospective Employers" (with S. Renas) Midwest Law Review 4, 145, Lawrence, Kansas (1985)
  • "Anglo-American Defamation Law: A Comparative Economic Analysis" (with S. Renas) The Journal of Media Law and Practice 5, No. 1, London (1984)
  • "Relaxed Liability: A Proposed New Standard for Defamation by the ;Press" (with S. Renas, R.Kumar and M. Solimine) American Business Law Journal, 22 No. 1 (1984)
  • "Toward an Economic Theory of Defamation Liability and the Press" (with S. Renas, R. Kumar and D. Shankland) Southern Economic Journal 22, No. 1 (1984)
  • "Lawyers, Legalism and Ethics" Midwest Law Review, 1 No. 100 (1983).
  • "Fraternities: Equal Protection Under the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964" The Journal of College Student Personnel (Nov. 1965)
  • "Fraternities and Civil Rights..." The Journal of College Student Personnel (May 1966)

 

 

 

 

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