Law, Business, and Society

Tony McAdams is an Emeritus Professor of Management at the University of Northern Iowa. He earned a BA in History from the University of Iowa, a JD from the University of Iowa, and an MBA from Columbia University. Professor McAdams' primary teaching interests include government regulations of business, business and society, and employment law. Professor McAdams' research interests include managerial accountability, business ethics, and employment law. His scholarly articles have appeared in such journals as The Harvard Business Review, The Academy of Management Review, The Journal of Business Ethics, and The American Business Law Journal. Professor McAdams received the Iowa Board of Regents Award for Faculty Excellence, the Distinguished Teaching of the Year Award from the student government at the University of Kentucky, and the University of Northern Iowa College of Business Administration Excellence in Teaching Award.




Kiren Dosanjh Zucker, author of Chapters 4, 6, 7, 12, 13, and 14, is a Professor of Accounting at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). She earned a BA in Political Science from Syracuse University and a JD from the University of Michigan. A member of the State Bar of California, she has served on its Committee of Bar Examiners and Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Her teaching and research interests focus primarily on employment law, pedagogy, and accounting ethics. In 2001, she was selected as a Master Teaching by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and in 2004 she received the Outstanding Faculty Award from CSUN's Students with Disabilities Resources Center. IN 2004 and 2006, she also received a CSUN University Ambassadors' Polished Apple Award. In 2014, CSUN Accounting students named her the Harvey A. Bookstein Accounting Professor of the Year, and in 2015, she received the Master of Science in Accountancy Program's Outstanding Teaching Award.




Kari Smoker, author of Chapters 16, 17, and 18, is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the State University of New York, The College of Brockport. She earned a BA in Mathematics_Statistics and Economics from the University of Rochester, a JD from The Ohio State University, and a Master's of Taxation from Golden Gate University, School of Taxation. She is also a Certified Fraud Examiner. Prior to entering academia, she worked in public accounting at Arthur Andersen and also as an associate attorney at two law firms. She served as president of the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys and continues to serve as a committee member for the Rochester Business Ethics Foundation. During the academic years 2004 to 2010, she was a visiting professor at St. John Fischer College. She teaching tax law as well as government and nonprofit accounting. In 2009, she received the Rochester Business Journal's Forty under 40 Award, and in 2015 and 2015, she received the Faculty of the Year Award from SUNY Brockport's School of Business Administration and Economics. In 2017, she received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching at SUNY Brockport.