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Anne-Marie G Hakstian

Anne-Marie G Hakstian

Professional Details

Title: Associate Professor
Office: CC-228
Phone: 978-542-6823
Email: annemarie.hakstian@salemstate.edu

Spring Courses

Cat. # Term Course # Title
1577 04 BUS252 Business Law I
1578 05 BUS252 Business Law I
2459 S1 BUS802 Legal and Ethical Environment

Professional Biography

EDUCATION: NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA, September 2006 to present. PhD Candidate in Law, Policy and Society, ABD. GPA 3.9. THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, Washington, D.C. JD earned in May 1990. Admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in March 1991. THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C., May 1987. B.A. in International Affairs. INSTITUT D'ETUDES POLITIQUES, Paris, France, May 1986. Certificat d'Etudes Politiques through Tufts University, Tufts-in-Paris Program. NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATOR PROGRAM, Salem, MA, May 2003. Completed the Basic Mediator Training course.

Professional Interests

Race and gender discrimination in employment; racial profiling; marketplace discrimination; sexual assault prevention.

Responsibilities

My responsibilities include teaching "Business Law I" (BUS 252), an undergraduate course that is required for all Business Administration majors as well as "The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business" (BUS 802N), a graduate course offered through the MBA program.

Selected Publications

Williams, J.D., Hakstian, A-M., Henderson, G.R. (2008). "Consumer Racial Profiling" in Encyclopedia of Race and Crime. Eds., Greene, Helen Taylor and Gabbidon, Shaun L., Sage Publications.

Harris, A-M. (2006). A Survey of Federal and State Public Accommodations Statutes: Evaluating their effectiveness in cases of retail discrimination. Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, Vol 13 (2): 331-396.

Williams, J.D., Harris, A-M., Henderson, G.R. (2006). Equal Treatment for Equal Dollars in Illinois: Assessing Consumer Racial Profiling and Other Marketplace Discrimination, The Law Enforcement Executive Forum, Vol. 5(7), 83-104.

Harris, A-M., Henderson, G.R., Williams, J.D. (2005). Courting Customers: Assessing Consumer Racial Profiling and Other Marketplace Discrimination. Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Policy Watch: Commentaries and Viewpoints, Vol. 24 (1), pp. 163-171.

Petty, R., Harris, A-M., Broaddus, T., Boyd, W. (2003). Regulating Target Marketing and other Race-Based Advertising Practices (Lead Article), University of Michigan Journal of Race and Law, Vol. 8 (1): 335.

Harris, A-M., Shopping While Black: Applying 42 U.S.C. Section 1981 to Cases of Consumer Racial Profiling (Lead Article), Boston College Third World Law, Vol 23(1): 1-56, 2003.

Harris, A-M. and Grooms, K.B. A New Lesson Plan for Educational Institutions: Expanded Rules Governing Liability Under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for Student and Faculty Sexual Harassment, reprinted in Sexual Harassment on Campus: A Legal Compendium, National Association of College and University Attorneys, 4th Edition (2003).

Selected Presentations

Conference on Transformative Research, Dartmouth, NH, July 6-8 2007. To Sue or Not to Sue: Consumer Responses to Marketplace Discrimination.

American Marketing Association, Marketing and Public Policy Conference, Long Beach, California, June 9, 2006. States of Denial and Degradation Both Subtle and Overt: Marketplace Discrimination Across America.

Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, November 16, 2005.Ayala v. Wal-Mart, Inc.: Litigating cases of consumer racial profiling.

Law and Society Association, Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 4, 2005.Session Chair: Law and the Public-Private Dichotomy: Public Regulation of the Private SectorPresenter: Courting Customers: Assessing Consumer Racial Profiling and Other Marketplace Discrimination

Academy of Marketing Science, Cultural Perspectives on Marketing Conference, Puebla, Mexico, September 23-25, 2004. Courting Customers: A Content Analysis of Consumer Racial Profiling Court Cases.

NAACP 20th Annual Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 11, 2004.Consumer Racial Profiling in Public Accommodations.

The University of Texas Ethics and Branding Speaker Series, McCombs School of Business, Austin, Texas, March 30, 2004. http://research.communication.utexas.edu/crp/Panelist: Consumer Racial Profiling: Perspectives from the Classroom, Courtroom, and Boardroom.

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Boston Bar Association, Boston, MA, Jan. 28, 2004. Overview of the Laws Addressing Retail Racial Profiling.

National Black MBA Association, 31st Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, September 20, 2002. Consumer Racial Profiling: It Happens Here Too.

North Atlantic Regional Business Law Review Annual Meeting, Babson College, April 4, 1998. Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court Prescribes a Dose of Common Sense.

Personal Interests

I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. As the daughter of a French-Canadian mother, I am fluent in spoken and written French. I speak and write Spanish at an intermediate level. After completing high school, I came to the US to attend college. My interests include yoga, running, reading, hiking, and traveling. I am an avid fan of the outdoors.