Kevin S. Marshall

Professor of Law

Kevin S. Marshall

Professor of Law

Bio

Professor of Law
PH.D., University of Texas, Dallas
J.D., Emory University School of Law
M.P.A., University of Texas, Dallas
B.A., Knox College

Professor Marshall joined the faculty in 2004 after several years of private practice in the fields of law and economics.

Professor Marshall  Contracts, Sales Remedies, Antitrust, Corporate Finance and Governance and Law & Economics.  Dr. Marshall also serves as a Lecturer at the University of La Verne College of Business and Public Management where he teaches courses in economics, finance, public policy and quantitative and qualitative research techniques. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a major in Economics from Knox College in May 1982.  Upon graduating from Knox College, he attended Emory University’s School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was conferred the degree of Juris Doctorate in May 1985.  After graduating from law school, Dr. Marshall practiced law for approximately twenty years in Dallas, Texas.  The concentration of his practice was in the areas of state/federal civil procedure and commercial litigation, as well as domestic and international competition law.  In the fall of 1989, he enrolled in the political economy program at the University of Texas at Dallas.  In May 1991, he received the degree of Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Dallas.  In December of 1993, he completed his doctoral dissertation entitled Administered Protection: The Political Economy of U.S. Countervailing and Antidumping Laws and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Political Economy from the University of Texas, Dallas. Additionally, Dr. Marshall is certified in Quantitative Methods and Economic Analysis by the University of Texas at Dallas’ School of Social Sciences for his academic achievement and coursework in Descriptive and Inferential Statistics, Costs-Benefits Analysis, Social Science Research Methods, Regression Analysis, Advanced Regression Analysis, and Econometrics.  Dr. Marshall continued to actively practice law through the summer of 2004 at which time he accepted a tenured track position with the University of La Verne’s College of Law in Ontario, California. Dr. Marshall is also a practicing economist and has served throughout the past 15 years as a consulting and testifying economic expert in state and federal courts throughout the United States with respect to economic issues in Robinson-Patman, antitrust, misappropriation of trade secrets, commercial, breach of contract, class-action fairness hearings, wrongful termination, employment discrimination, personal injury, and wrongful death.

Recently Dr. Marshall accepted the invitation to serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Business and Ethics, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Pacific Southwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business. Dr. Marshall also serves as a Staff Editor for the American Business Law Journal, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. Dr. Marshall has also served as the Editor of The Earnings Analyst, the annual publication of the American Rehabilitation Economics Association dedicated to the publication of peer-reviewed, quality manuscripts dealing with substantive research and practice issues in the areas of forensic vocational and economic evaluation and testimony.  Since entering academia on a full time basis in 2004, Dr. Marshall has published and presented numerous books and articles involving the interdisciplinary workings of law and economics.

In addition to his above professional pursuits, Dr. Marshall has served through the years as an Adjunct Professor at various college institutions including Texas Wesleyan University’s School of Law, the Economic Department for Southern Methodist University’s Dedman College, the University of Texas at Dallas’ Business School and School of Social Sciences, and Our Lady of the Lake’s Graduate School of Business teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses in Antitrust Law and Regulation, the Regulation of International Trade and Economic Relations, International Business Transactions, International Trade Policy, Business Law, International Trade, Forensic Economics, Law and Economics, Quantitative Methods & Statistics for Management and Economics, Costs & Benefits Analysis, Law and Data Analysis, Managerial Economics, Microeconomics, Price Theory, International Economics, Real Estate Economics and Investment and Macroeconomics.  Dr. Marshall may be contacted at the University of La Verne’s College of Law, 320 East D. Street, Ontario California, 91764.  Ph:  909-460-2030.  E-mail:  professor.marshall@gmail.com (preferred) or kmarshall@laverne.edu.

In 2009, Professor Marshall was awarded a California Bar Examiner’s Honorarium for its selection and use of submitted Contract/Remedies Bar Exam Essay Question (co-authored with Professor Juanda Lowder Daniel) for California 2009 February Bar Exam.

In 2008, Professor Marshall received the 2008 Double-Blind-Peer-Reviewed PSALSB Best Paper Award at its annual conference held in Palm Springs, February 2008 for his pre-published work entitled “The Unfair Trade Practice of Hiring Illegal Workers.”

In 2006, Professor Marshall, along with Professor Juanda Daniel, received the 2006 Holmes-Cardozo Award for Distinguished Submitted Conference Paper from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business for their work entitled “Avoiding Economic Waste in Contract Damages: Myths, Misunderstanding, and Malcontent.”

Courses

Contracts, Sales, Remedies, Corporate Finance and Governance, Antitrust Law and Law & Economics